Ramakrishna Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

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

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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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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.

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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

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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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Respect is heaven, respect is liberation.

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The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.

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As long as I live, so long do I learn.

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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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The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.

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A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.

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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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