When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
RAMAKRISHNAThe water of God’s grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal.
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One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
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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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As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.
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A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
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Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
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Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
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Man suffers through lack of faith in God.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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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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God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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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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They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action.
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