Ramakrishna Short Quotes

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Knowledge leads to unity, and Ignorance to diversity.

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Women are, all of them, the veritable images of Śakti.

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

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

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The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

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One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.

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Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.

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God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.

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

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Honour both spirit and form, the sentiment within as well as the symbol without.

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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 the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body.

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

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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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The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.

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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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When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.

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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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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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He who is called Krishna is also Siva and the Primal Sakti...He again, who is called Jesus and Allah. Truth is one.

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That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.

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The Pure Mind and the Pure Ātman are one and the same thing. Whatever comes up in the Pure Mind is the voice of God.

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If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.

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With the divine Knowledge of Advaita (non-duality) in you, do whatever you wish; for then no evil can ever come out of you.

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He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realise God in this very life

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The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.

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God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.

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At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it.

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Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.

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