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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.)

  Ramakrishna

  Travel, Earth, Four

  "Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna".

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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.

  Ramakrishna

  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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• 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.

  Ramakrishna

  Real, Have Faith, Faith In God

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

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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.

  Ramakrishna

  Compassion, Given, Protect

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

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• One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.

  Ramakrishna

  One Day, Spirit, Pure

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

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• Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss. The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance. The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .

  Ramakrishna

  Ignorance, Attachment, Bliss

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

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• It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

  Ramakrishna

  Practice, Easy, Difficult

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

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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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• 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.

  Ramakrishna

  Running, Vanity, Long

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

  Ramakrishna

  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.

  Ramakrishna

  Fall, Boys, Fixing

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

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• When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life. Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life; but it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.

  Ramakrishna

  Struggle, Men, Perfect

  Ramakrishna (1965). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of them, their number being 1120”

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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.

  Ramakrishna

  Lying, Jumping, Doors

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• The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

  Ramakrishna

  Believe, World, Mixtures

  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.

  Ramakrishna

  Determination, Persistence, Grace

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• Men bound hand and foot in the endless chain of cause & effect cannot free each other.

  Ramakrishna

  Men, Feet, Hands

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• One cannot completely get rid of the six passions: lust, anger, greed, and the like. Therefore one should direct them to God. If you must have desire and greed, then you should desire love of God and be greedy to attain Him.

  Ramakrishna

  Anger, Passion, Desire Love

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

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• Who may be called a paramahamsa? He who, like a swan, can take the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water. He who, like an ant, can take the sugar from a mixture of sugar and sand, leaving aside the sand.

  Ramakrishna

  Swans, Water, Leaving

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

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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.

  Ramakrishna

  Men, Agents, States

  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.

  Ramakrishna

  Path, Different, Creeds

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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.

  Ramakrishna

  Inspirational, Men, Light

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

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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.

  Ramakrishna

  Religious, Attitude, Men

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• A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges. No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees. The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.

  Ramakrishna

  Fall, Men, Water

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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.

  Ramakrishna

  Children, Pride, Son

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

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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.

  Ramakrishna

  Believe, People, Joy

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