Ramakrishna Quotes

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• The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

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  Wind, Grace, Sail

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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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  Spiritual, Water, World

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• The supreme purpose and goal for human life... is to cultivate love.

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  Goal, Purpose, Life Is

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• Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own. When one becomes spiritual, the ego vanishes gradually on its own. A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Flower

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• All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.

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  Fall, Sea, Rivers

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• All troubles come to an end when the ego dies

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  Ego, Trouble, Ends

  Swami Lokeśvarānanda, Ramakrishna (1992). “The Way to God as Taught by Sri Ramakrishna”

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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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  Men, Together, May

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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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  God, Night, Thinking

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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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  Heart, Clouds, Light

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

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• Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.

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  Ignorance, Knowledge, Diversity

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

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• Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.

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  Inspirational, Self, Two

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

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• When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

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  Inspirational, Flower, Bees

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• Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

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  Water, Bird, Skins

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

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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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  Heart, Mind, True Knowledge

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

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• There are three kinds of love;
  unselfish, mutual, and selfish.
  The unselfish love is of the highest kind;
  The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings.
  In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved;
  but has an eye towards his own happiness also. It is middling.
  The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness,
  no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe.

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  Selfish, Eye, Love Is

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• You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings.

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  God, Should, Love Everyone

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• Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.

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  Wise, Men, Littles

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• Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.

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  Evil, Doe, Plot

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• The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.

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  Morning, Thinking, Roots

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• Do yourself what you wish others to do.

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  Wish

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

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• The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.

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  Moving, Grace, Boat

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• Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.

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  Have Faith, Persons

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

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• One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.

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  Spiritual, Long, Hatred

  "The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna". Book by Ramakrishna, transl. by Swami Nikhilananda p. 186, 1942.

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• The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.

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  Motivational, Tree, Wish

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

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• God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient's mother, 'Don't be afraid, mother; I shall certainly cure your boy.' God laughs, saying to Himself, 'I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save it!' The physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each other, 'This side is mine and that side is yours.' He laughs and says to Himself, 'The whole universe belongs to Me, but they say they own this portion or that portion.'

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  Mother, Brother, Boys

  "The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna" as translated by Swami Nikhilananda, Vol. 1, 1942.

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