Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
RAMAKRISHNATry to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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A truly religious man should think that other religions also have many paths leading to the truth.
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So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.
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The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]
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If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.
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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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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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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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The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
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What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
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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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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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It noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas
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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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Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru’s words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.
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