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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.

Ramakrishna

Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
RAMAKRISHNA

Duties Duty Few Finish Hand Peace
The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
RAMAKRISHNA

Bamboo Bent Easy Force Grown Heart
It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn.
RAMAKRISHNA

Bend Drawn Easy Escape God Hold Untrained Young
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
RAMAKRISHNA

Body Disease House Soul Tax Tenant
The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
RAMAKRISHNA

Always Bright Fish Live Mud Shiny Skin
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
RAMAKRISHNA

Believe Discard Mixture Non-Believe Positive Truth World
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Beautiful Black Blue Case Colour Man Pillow Third
If you want to go east, don’t go west.
RAMAKRISHNA

Confuse East Go Want West
God laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save other,
RAMAKRISHNA

God Going Himself Laugh Life Man Other Save Say Take
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
RAMAKRISHNA

God Realize Realizing Telling Truth
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
RAMAKRISHNA

Brother Divide Forgetting God Land Laugh Master Physician Think
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Form God Righteous Saint Sinner Unrighteous
The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.
RAMAKRISHNA

Compassion Given Helpless Protect
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Day God Heaven Ignorance Say Therefore
The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’.
RAMAKRISHNA

Both Consciousness Inside Jnani Nothing Outside Paramatman Pot
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Appear Divided Inside Outside Part Perceive Pot Water

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