When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.
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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?
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.
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Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully.
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The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.
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The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.
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Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
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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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So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
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Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both inside and outside the pot.
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The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.
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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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When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
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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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After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.
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