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.
RAMAKRISHNAThe breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food.
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Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.
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More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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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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The Hindus call it ‘jal’, the Christians ‘water’, and the Moslems ‘pani’. But it is one and the same thing.
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Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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God, the true Philosopher’s Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart
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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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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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God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient’s mother, ‘Don’t be afraid, mother; I shall certainly cure your boy.’
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The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’.
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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 truly religious man should think that other religions also have many paths leading to the truth.
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In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also.
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