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.
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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Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.
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The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.
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One should not think, ‘My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.’ God can be realized by means of all paths.
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By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. … He who asserts with strong conviction: “I am not bound, I am free,” becomes free.
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Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake.
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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.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner
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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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It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal.
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Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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Man suffers through lack of faith in God.
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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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