Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
RAMAKRISHNAHe whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
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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Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
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Because of the pot the water appears to be divided into two parts; because of the pot you seem to perceive an inside and an outside.
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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish.
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This side is mine and that side is yours.’ He laughs and says to Himself, ‘The whole universe belongs to Me, but they say they own this portion or that portion.’it!’
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One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
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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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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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Some drink it at one place and call it ‘jal’, others at another place and call it ‘pani’, and still others at a third place and call it ‘water’.
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The virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner
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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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But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.
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