No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees.
RAMAKRISHNAIt is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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 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.
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So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.
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You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn’t bear malice toward others.
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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
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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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That is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.
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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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Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss.
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They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action.
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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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The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
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The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
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The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’.
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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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