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.
RAMAKRISHNATravel 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.)
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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If you want to go east, don’t go west.
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We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.
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The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.
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It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.
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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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The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
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When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.
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Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
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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.
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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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The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.
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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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Allow others also equal liberty to stand by their own faith and opinion.
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In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.
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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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