Ramakrishna Quotes

• Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.

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• Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.

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• When 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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• Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

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• It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

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• Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

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• There is no hope for a worldly man if he is not sincerely devoted to God.

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• When the flower blooms the bees come uninvited.

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• Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

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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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• The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

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• When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

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• Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

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• One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

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• The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

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• More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.

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• Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.

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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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• God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

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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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Birth:	18th February, 1836
Death:	16th August, 1886
Nationality:	Indian
Profession:	Philosopher, Priest

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