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.
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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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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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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Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.
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Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don’t have to avoid evil.
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Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
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No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees.
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Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.
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So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.
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An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive
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If 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.
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So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.
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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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It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn.
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