One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
RAMAKRISHNAYou too, are now playing in this material world, infatuated with the dolls of wealth, honour, fame, etc.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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The water of God’s grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.
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What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
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I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner
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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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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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You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings.
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Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing.
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The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.
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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish.
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But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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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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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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Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake.
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