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A revered 19th-century Indian mystic whose teachings emphasized the universality of all religions and the path to experiencing God through intense devotion and surrender. His life and teachings demonstrate a deep spiritual experience and the importance of personal divine realization. His influence led to the establishment of the Ramakrishna Order, which continues to promote his ideals of spiritual unity and social service.

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

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A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.

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The supreme purpose and goal for human life... is to cultivate love.

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All troubles come to an end when the ego dies.

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Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own. When one becomes spiritual, the ego vanishes gradually on its own. A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness.

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The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.

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Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.

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All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.

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You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings.

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If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

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The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.

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Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.

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Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.

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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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There are three kinds of love; unselfish, mutual, and selfish. The unselfish love is of the highest kind; The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings. In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also. It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe.

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The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

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Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.

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Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.

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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.

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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.

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An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive.

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God laughs on two occasions...

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