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Ramakrishna

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

— Ramakrishnaalone

"If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled."

— Ramakrishnafaith

"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."

— Ramakrishnafear

"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."

— Ramakrishnafreedom

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

— Ramakrishnagod

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

— Ramakrishnagod

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

-Ramakrishna

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"If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled."

-Ramakrishna

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"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."

-Ramakrishna

"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."

-Ramakrishna

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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."

-Ramakrishna

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

-Ramakrishna

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

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"God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God."

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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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"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."

-Ramakrishna

"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."

-Ramakrishna

"God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God."

-Ramakrishna

"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."

-Ramakrishna

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

-Ramakrishna

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

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"Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here."

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

-Ramakrishna

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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."

-Ramakrishna

"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."

-Ramakrishna

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