If you want to go east, don’t go west.
RAMAKRISHNAPray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.
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First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.
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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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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
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Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
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Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.
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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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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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The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
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An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive
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One should always maintain an attitude of respect towards other religions. Dispute not, as you rest firmly on your own faith and opinion
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Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
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One feels that way as long as this pot of ‘I’ exists. When the ‘I’ disappears, what is remains. That cannot be described in words.
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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water.
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Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life;
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.
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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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If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.
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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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Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully.
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