Man suffers through lack of faith in God.
RAMAKRISHNAWhat is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
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A devotee who can call on God while living a householder’s life is a hero indeed. God thinks: ‘He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties.
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You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.
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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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The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
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One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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Do yourself what you wish others to do.
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If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
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He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.
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Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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All troubles come to an end when the ego dies
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Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both inside and outside the pot.
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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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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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