Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
RAMAKRISHNA
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.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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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 virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner
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They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.
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Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
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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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One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.
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They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action.
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Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
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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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What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
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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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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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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
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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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