Ramakrishna Quotes, God Quotes, Book Quotes

Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures. After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.

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The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?

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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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Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.

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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.

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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 goal of life is not the earning of money, but the service of God.p.114

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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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Infinite are the paths and infinite the opinions.

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A truly religious man should think that other religions also have many paths leading to the truth. One should always maintain an attitude of respect towards other religions. Dispute not, as you rest firmly on your own faith and opinion, allow others also equal liberty to stand by their own faith and opinion.

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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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You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion... different temperaments... differences in the capacity to comprehend.

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If you want to go east, don't go west.

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With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions.

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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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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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I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama .

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If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

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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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As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced form one parent seed of the tree, so from the one Lord is produced the whole of creation, animate and inanimate, spiritual and material.

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