Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
RAMAKRISHNALittle 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.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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 speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world?
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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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You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings.
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Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water.
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Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other’s home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.
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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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The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
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If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.
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Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
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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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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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All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.
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Because of the pot the water appears to be divided into two parts; because of the pot you seem to perceive an inside and an outside.
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