The water of God’s grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.
RAMAKRISHNAHe is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings.
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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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One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
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The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.
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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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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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Little children play with dolls in the outer room just as they like, without any care of fear or restraint; but as soon as their mother comes in, they throw aside their dolls and run to her crying, “Mamma, mamma.
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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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That is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.
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More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
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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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Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
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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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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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