Ramakrishna Paramahamsa quotes
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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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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
If you want to go east, don't go west.
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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.
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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.
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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.
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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