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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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If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.
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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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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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Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
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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.
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Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
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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 breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.
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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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The fool who repeats again and again: I am bound, I am bound, remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: I am a sinner, I am a sinner, becomes a sinner indeed.
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The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.
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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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If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
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Whoever wants God intensely, finds Him. Go and verify it in your own life.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.
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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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