The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
RAMAKRISHNA
As long as I live, so long do I learn.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
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All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
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The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form.
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Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
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So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
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It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal.
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If however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.
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The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
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Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
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He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle – pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.
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Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i .e . in one ‘s own heart.)
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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
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