If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.
RAMAKRISHNAAs 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.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
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That is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.
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The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’.
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Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.
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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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They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action.
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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.
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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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One feels that way as long as this pot of ‘I’ exists. When the ‘I’ disappears, what is remains. That cannot be described in words.
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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.
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Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
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All troubles come to an end when the ego dies
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Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
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So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
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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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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
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A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges.
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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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If you want to go east, don’t go west.
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The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
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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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If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.
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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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