You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.
RAMAKRISHNAGod is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Do yourself what you wish others to do.
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The winds of God’s grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.
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Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer
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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.
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First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.
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Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
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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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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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The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction.
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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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God laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save other,
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So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.
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If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.
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As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.
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