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As water does not enter into a stone, so religious advice produces no impression on the heart of a worldly I man.
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)
The Master said: "Everything that exists is God." The pupil understood it literally, but not in the true spirit.
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)
In the same manner those quarrel who have seen one aspect only of the Deity.
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)
Knowledge leads to unity, and Ignorance to diversity.
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)
As fishes playing in a pond covered over with reeds and scum cannot be seen from outside, so God plays in the heart of a man invisibly, being screened by Miyd from human view.
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)
As persons living in a house infested by venomous snakes are always alert and cautious, so should men living in the world be always on their guard against the allurements of lust and greed.
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)
All right, you are God. The elephant is God also, but God in the shape of the elephant-driver was warning you also from above. Why did you not pay heed to his warnings?
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)
On the tree of Sat-^it-dnanda there are innumerable :' ;Rlmas, Knshwas, Christ's, &c. ; one or two of them come | 'down into this world now and then, and produce mighty changes and revolutions.
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)
It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal. So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)
Samadhi is the state of bliss which is experienced by a live fish which, being kept out of water for some time, is again put into it.
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)
When Bhagavdn 5r! Ramakandra came to this world, seven sages only could recognise Him to be the God, incarnate. So when God descends into this world, few only can recognise His Divine nature.
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)
Thinking thus he did not move. At last the elephant took him up by his trunk, and dashed him aside.
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)
At a certain stage of his path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form; at another stage, in God without form
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)
When the tail of the tadpole drops off, it can live both in water and on land. When the tail of ignorance drops off, man becomes free. He can then live both in God and in the world equally well.
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)
The manifestation of the Divinity must be understood to be in greater degree in those who are honoured, respected, and obeyed by a large following, than in those who have gained no such influence.
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)
None of you has seen the elephant.
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)
Many are the names of God, and infinite the forms that lead us to know Him. In whatsoever name or form you desire to call Him, in that very form and name you will see Him.
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)
It is one and the same Avatara that, having plunged into the ocean of life, rises up in one place and is known as Krishna, and diving again rises in another place and is known as Christ.
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)
Four blind men went to see an elephant.
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)
As one can ascend to the top of a house by means of a ladder or a bamboo or a staircase or a rope, so diverse also are the ways and means to approach God, and every religion in the world shows one of these ways.
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)