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.
RAMAKRISHNAImagine 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.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.
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The supreme purpose and goal for human life… is to cultivate love.
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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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All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food.
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Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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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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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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Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don’t have to avoid evil.
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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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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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You too, are now playing in this material world, infatuated with the dolls of wealth, honour, fame, etc.
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So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the flower emitting the buzzing sound; but when it is inside the flower
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Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
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God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
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