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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
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Ramakrishna
Age: 50 †
Born: 1836
Born: February 18
Died: 1886
Died: August 16
Philosopher
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Gadadhar Chattopadhyay
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle -- pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.
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It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.
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As for myself, I look upon all women as my Mother. This is a very pure attitude of mind. There is no risk or danger in it. To look upon a woman as one's sister is also not bad. But the other attitudes are very difficult and dangerous. It is almost impossible to keep to the purity of the ideal.
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If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.
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The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.
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Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
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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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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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I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama .
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