Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
RAMAKRISHNAOne should not think, ‘My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.’ God can be realized by means of all paths.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
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Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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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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The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
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Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.
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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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The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
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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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So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.
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It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.
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Man suffers through lack of faith in God.
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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 winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
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Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water.
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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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