One should always maintain an attitude of respect towards other religions. Dispute not, as you rest firmly on your own faith and opinion
RAMAKRISHNAIf there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
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Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don’t have to avoid evil.
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Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life;
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Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water.
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He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
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What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.
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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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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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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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Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru’s words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.
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He has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.
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