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Live like a mud-fish: its skin is bright and shiny even though it lives in mud.
Ramakrishna
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Ramakrishna
Age: 50 †
Born: 1836
Born: February 18
Died: 1886
Died: August 16
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Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Gadadhar Chattopadhyay
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
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As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
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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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When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
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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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Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
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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.
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