One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
RAMAKRISHNATo work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.
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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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The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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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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A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges.
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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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You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world?
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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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When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
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In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.
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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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There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The ‘I’ is the jar.
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Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
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Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
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