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.
RAMAKRISHNAThat is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
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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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When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
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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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When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.
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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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One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.
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God, the true Philosopher’s Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart
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Little children play with dolls in the outer room just as they like, without any care of fear or restraint; but as soon as their mother comes in, they throw aside their dolls and run to her crying, “Mamma, mamma.
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You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
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Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
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The supreme purpose and goal for human life… is to cultivate love.
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The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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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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