It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable.
RAMAKRISHNAYou should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn’t bear malice toward others.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
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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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Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.
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Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life;
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So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.
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Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
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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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If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
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All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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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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Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru’s words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.
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That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
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God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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