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.
RAMAKRISHNAGod in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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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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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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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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Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.
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Great men have the nature of a child.
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Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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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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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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The water of God’s grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.
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If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.
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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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The winds of God’s grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.
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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
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