Ramakrishna Quotes - Page 5

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• The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.

  Ramakrishna

  Selfish, Men, Doe

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form. That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real. Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.

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  Real, Have Faith, Faith In God

  "Ramakrishna and His Disciples". Book by Christopher Isherwood, p. 263, 1965.

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• Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i .e . in one 's own heart.)

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  Travel, Earth, Four

  "Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna".

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• The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God's compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.

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  Compassion, Given, Protect

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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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. God, the true Philosopher's Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart, The richest gem of all. How many pearls and precious stones Are scattered all about The outer court that lies before The chamber of your heart!

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  Spiritual, Prayer, Lying

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• We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.

  Ramakrishna

  Essence, Laughing, Effort

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• Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

  Ramakrishna

  Religious, Book, Reading

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.

  Ramakrishna

  Men, White, Ugly

  "Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna", p. 299, 1960.

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• One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtuous.

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  Inspirational, Men, Light

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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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? First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.

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  Spiritual, Mean, Discipline

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• Bhakti is the one essential thing.
  To be sure, God exists in all beings.
  Who, then is a devotee? He whose mind dwells on God.
  But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
  The water of God's grace cannot collect
  on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.

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  Running, Vanity, Long

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• The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.

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  Love, Long, Ego

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.

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  Determination, Persistence, Grace

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• God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.

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  Saint, Form, Righteous

  Ramakrishna (1916). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of the sacred and inspired utterances of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna”

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• These people are like ... a frog living in a well, who has never seen the outside world. He knows only his well, so he will not believe that there is such a thing as the world. Likewise, people talk so much about the world because they have not known the joy of God.

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  Believe, People, Joy

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• Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.

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  Heart, Selfless, God Love

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger.

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  Fall, Boys, Fixing

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.

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  Path, Different, Creeds

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• A truly religious man should think that other religions also have many paths leading to the truth.
  One should always maintain an attitude of respect towards other religions. Dispute not, as you rest firmly on your own faith and opinion, allow others also equal liberty to stand by their own faith and opinion.

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  Religious, Attitude, Men

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• It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God's mansion lies the stump of ego. One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.

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  Lying, Jumping, Doors

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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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  Men, Agents, States

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.

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  Love, Trying, Divine

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• As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.

  Ramakrishna

  Real, Animal, Elephants

  Ramakrishna (1916). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of the sacred and inspired utterances of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna”

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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.

  Ramakrishna

  Differences, Different, Taste

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• If you feel proud, let it be in the thought that you are the servant of God, the son of God. Great men have the nature of a child. They are always a child before Him; so they are free from pride. All their strength is of God and not their own. It belongs to Him and comes from Him.

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  Children, Pride, Son

  "Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna". Book by Ramakrishna, p. 124, 1960.

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