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Ramakrishna

1836 – 1886 CE

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Bengali: রামকৃষ্ণ পরমহংস (1836 – 1886)
Indian mystic, yogi, inspiration for the 19th–20th century Bengali Renaissance; Ramakrishna became a strong revitalizing influence on Indian culture. His "social service gospel,” disciples like Vivekananda, and organizations do major philanthropic work in education, health care, disaster relief, rural management, and in eliminating tribal welfare. Steeped in Hindu philosophy and practices, he also initiated into and practiced Islam and did the same with Christianity teaching ‘All religions as true.’ His impact on thought leaders extended from names like Gandhi and Nehru to westerner ones like Tolstoy, Dvorak, and Philip Glass.

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Quotes by Ramakrishna (12 quotes)

“When a pickpocket sees a saint, he sees only his pockets; when a saint sees a pickpocket, he sees only his innocence.”

Chapters: 49. No Set Mind

Themes: Delusion

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

Themes: Suffering

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

Themes: Truth

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

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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.”

Themes: Health

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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.”

Themes: Travel

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“Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond.”

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“God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each other, 'This side is mine and that side is yours.' He laughs and says to Himself, 'The whole universe belongs to Me, but they say they own this portion or that portion.'”

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“All troubles come to an end when the ego dies”

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“Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation.”

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“Looking up at the sky, I saw a beautiful, somber thundercloud, a flight of snow-white cranes flew over-head in front of it. It created such a beautiful contrast that... lost to outward sense, I fell down, and the puffed rice was scattered in all directions. Some people found me and carried me home”

Themes: Sacred World

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“The buildings, the temple and all vanished leaving no trace; instead there was limitless, infinite, shining ocean of consciousness or spirit. As far as the eye could see, its billows were rushing toward me from all sides”

Themes: Sacred World

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Quotes about Ramakrishna (2 quotes)

“One of the most striking of Ramakrishna's teachings is the belief in the unity of all religions... We—among the complexities of our modern civilization—are forced to develop hard shells... Ramakrishna, at the opposite extreme, could plunge to a depth of imaginative ecstasy which few Westerners have ever known”

Colin Wilson 1931 – 2013 CE
from Outsider

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“a state of being where the mind knows the source of all light... the saints, the arhats, the bodhisattvas, the jivanmuktas who knew something or everything about this state of being... we wanted you to know who and what Jesus and Gautama and Lao Tzu and Shankaracharya and Huineng and Sri Ramakrishna, etc., were before you knew too much or anything about Homer or Shakespeare or even Blake or Whitman, let alone George Washington and his cherry tree... or how to parse a sentence”

J. D. Salinger 1919 – 2010 CE
from Franny and Zooey

Themes: Enlightenment

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