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The supreme purpose and goal for human life... is to cultivate love.
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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Humans
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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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As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee's feet.
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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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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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Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain so pious men lift the good from the bad.
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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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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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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
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Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
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The world is not impermanent if one lives there after knowing God.
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If you keep your heart immersed always in the depth of that holy love, your heart is sure to remain ever full to overflowing with the Divine fervour of sacred love.
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The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.
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God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
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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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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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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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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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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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Live like a mud-fish: its skin is bright and shiny even though it lives in mud.
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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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