If you keep your heart immersed always in the depth of that holy love, your heart is sure to remain ever full to overflowing with the Divine fervour of sacred love.
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More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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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 compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.
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Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning,
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If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.
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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 Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
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There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The ‘I’ is the jar.
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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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Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food.
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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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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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God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real.
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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
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Because of the pot the water appears to be divided into two parts; because of the pot you seem to perceive an inside and an outside.
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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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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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Great men have the nature of a child.
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If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.
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You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
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A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
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God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
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Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
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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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