The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’.
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.
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The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
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When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
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You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn’t bear malice toward others.
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Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma.
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God laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save other,
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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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When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.
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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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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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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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But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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The richest gem of all. How many pearls and precious stones Are scattered all about The outer court that lies before The chamber of your heart!
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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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The physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each
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As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger.
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Some drink it at one place and call it ‘jal’, others at another place and call it ‘pani’, and still others at a third place and call it ‘water’.
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Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within.
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As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.
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The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
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So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.
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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 breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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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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