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It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn.

Ramakrishna

Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
RAMAKRISHNA

Duties Duty Few Finish Hand Peace
The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
RAMAKRISHNA

Bamboo Bent Easy Force Grown Heart
Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
RAMAKRISHNA

Another.You Everyone Love One
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Appear Holy Indeed Man Smallest Stain Ugly White
As long as I live, so long do I learn.
RAMAKRISHNA

Learn Live Long
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
RAMAKRISHNA

Attachment Comfort God Name Pray
Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
RAMAKRISHNA

Alone Guide Guru Universe
That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
RAMAKRISHNA

Alone Heart Knowledge Mind Negation Purify True
They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.
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Action Conscious Doer Fully God Servant
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Care Children Doll Fear Little Mother Play Restrain Running
No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees.
RAMAKRISHNA

Back Come Holy Jump Man Old Shoulder Sin Sooner Water
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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Blowing Boat Breeze Forward Grace Moving Sail
The physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each
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Brother Divide Forgetting God Land Laugh Master Physician Think
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
RAMAKRISHNA

Body Disease House Soul Tax Tenant
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Boy Failing Fall Fear Fixing Perform Pillar Whirl Worldly
Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish.
RAMAKRISHNA

Bird Live Mudfish Off Shake Spin Water Waterfowl

It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn.

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