So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.
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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A devotee who can call on God while living a householder’s life is a hero indeed. God thinks: ‘He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties.
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When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer
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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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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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All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable.
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Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures.
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The fool who repeats again and again: “I am bound, I am bound,” remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: “I am a sinner, I am a sinner,” becomes a sinner indeed.
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Do yourself what you wish others to do.
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One feels that way as long as this pot of ‘I’ exists. When the ‘I’ disappears, what is remains. That cannot be described in words.
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Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully.
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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
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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 less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .
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Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both inside and outside the pot.
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