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The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
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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Live like a mud-fish: its skin is bright and shiny even though it lives in mud.
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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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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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God has created the world in play, as it were.
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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.
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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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It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.
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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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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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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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All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.
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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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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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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 must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
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Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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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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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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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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