What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
RAMAKRISHNAThe magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.
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Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
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The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’.
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That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real.
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If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.
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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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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger.
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A truly religious man should think that other religions also have many paths leading to the truth.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
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The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
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Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing.
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The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
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It noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas
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