That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
RAMAKRISHNAIf however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges.
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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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If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.
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You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.
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Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
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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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Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within.
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God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning,
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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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If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.
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The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
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