It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.
RAMAKRISHNASpirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.
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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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If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.
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They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.
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Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.
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If you keep your heart immersed always in the depth of that holy love, your heart is sure to remain ever full to overflowing with the Divine fervour of sacred love.
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God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
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You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.
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The Hindus call it ‘jal’, the Christians ‘water’, and the Moslems ‘pani’. But it is one and the same thing.
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The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
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In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also.
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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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The water of God’s grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.
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Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don’t have to avoid evil.
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No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees.
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Because of the pot the water appears to be divided into two parts; because of the pot you seem to perceive an inside and an outside.
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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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God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
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So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.
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What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
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If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.
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All troubles come to an end when the ego dies
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God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
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Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
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Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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He has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.
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