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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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Whoever wants God intensely, finds Him. Go and verify it in your own life.
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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.
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Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
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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.
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The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.
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If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
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A man develops a subtle power as a result of the strict observance of celibacy for twelve years. Then he can understand and grasp very subtle things which otherwise elude his intellect. Through that understanding the aspirant can have direct vision of God. That pure understanding alone enables him to realize Truth.
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God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
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The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]
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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn't bear malice toward others.
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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.
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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.
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If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.
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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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Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
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By the mind one is bound by the mind one is freed. ... He who asserts with strong conviction: I am not bound, I am free, becomes free.
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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.
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