Ramakrishna Quotes, Hands Quotes

Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.

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When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

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If you want to go east, don't go west.

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Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.

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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. There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The 'I' is the jar.

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The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

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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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Man suffers through lack of faith in God.

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God reveals Himself to a devotee who feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions: the attraction of worldly possessions for the worldly man, the child's attraction for its mother, and the husband's attraction for the chaste wife. If one feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions, then through it one can attain Him.

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Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.

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It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false.

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

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Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.

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As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee's feet.

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It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal. So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.

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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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Great men have the nature of a child.

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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.

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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.

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The fool who repeats again and again: "I am bound, I am bound," remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: "I am a sinner, I am a sinner," becomes a sinner indeed.

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