If you want to go east, don’t go west.
RAMAKRISHNAYou 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?
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.
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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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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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Travel 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.)
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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 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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He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
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God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
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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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If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.
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Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
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Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
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The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.
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Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.
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God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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