What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
RAMAKRISHNAThe young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
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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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So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.
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God laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save other,
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No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees.
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The winds of God’s grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.
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If you keep your heart immersed always in the depth of that holy love, your heart is sure to remain ever full to overflowing with the Divine fervour of sacred love.
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Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.
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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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Do yourself what you wish others to do.
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God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
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Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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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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