He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle – pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.
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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It noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas
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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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Little children play with dolls in the outer room just as they like, without any care of fear or restraint; but as soon as their mother comes in, they throw aside their dolls and run to her crying, “Mamma, mamma.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
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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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As long as I live, so long do I learn.
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Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
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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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If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.
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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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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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Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures.
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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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The supreme purpose and goal for human life… is to cultivate love.
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