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.
RAMAKRISHNAGod laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient’s mother, ‘Don’t be afraid, mother; I shall certainly cure your boy.’
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
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A devotee who can call on God while living a householder’s life is a hero indeed. God thinks: ‘He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties.
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An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive
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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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Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.
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Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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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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Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.
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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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Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
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One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.
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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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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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