Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
RAMAKRISHNAWhen the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
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You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world?
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Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other’s home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.
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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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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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Great men have the nature of a child.
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He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
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There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The ‘I’ is the jar.
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Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.
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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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One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within.
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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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