God dwells in all beings. But you may be intimate only with good people; you must keep away from the evil-minded. God is in the tiger; but you cannot embrace...
Even at the present time we find many sects and societies, with almost the same ideas, fighting each other, because one does not want to set forth those ideas ...
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In a forest there lived a holy man and who had many disciples. One day he taught them to see God in all beings and knowing this bow low before them all. A...
What is needed is a fellow-feeling between the different types of religion, seeing that they all stand or fall together, a fellow-feeling which springs from ...
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Nov 2, 2006 2:21 pm
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CHAPTER II THE REAL NATURE OF MAN (Delivered in London) Great is the tenacity with which man clings to the senses. Yet, however substantial he may think the...
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Nov 3, 2006 2:13 pm
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It is said in the scriptures that water is a form of God. But some water is fit to be used for worship, some water for washing the face, and some only for...
One of the most poetical of the Upanishads, the Katha Upanishad, begins with the inquiry: "When a man dies, there is a dispute. One party declares that he has ...
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Nov 4, 2006 12:58 pm
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Then there is the desire to be happy. We run after everything to make ourselves happy; we pursue our mad career in the external world of senses. If you ask the...
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Nov 6, 2006 2:50 pm
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A man living in a society should make a show of tamas to protect himself from evil-minded people. But he should not harm anybody in anticipation of harm...
Sri Ramakrishna Saranam 'He Abides Especially in the Hearts of All' SWAMI BHUTESHANANDA Inner Versus Outer Atmosphere We often say that our surroundings and...
Two positions remain to mankind. One is to believe with the nihilists that all is nothing, that we know nothing, that we can never know anything either about ...
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Nov 7, 2006 3:24 pm
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1. Some cowherd boys used to tend their cows in a meadow where a terrible poisonous snake lived. Everyone was on the alert for fear of it. One day a...
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Then there is the other position — to seek for an explanation, to seek for the real, to discover in the midst of this eternally changing and evanescent world...
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Nov 8, 2006 3:16 pm
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In this creation of God there is a variety of things: men, animals, trees, plants. Among the animals some are good, some bad. Some trees bear fruit sweet as...
We read in the hymns of the Rig-Veda, addressed to the God of Fire who is burning a dead body, "Carry him, O Fire, in your arms gently, give him a perfect...
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Nov 9, 2006 3:25 pm
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You are all aware of the story of the deluge in the Old Testament. The same story was current among the ancient Babylonians, the Egyptians, the Chinese, and...
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Nov 10, 2006 2:16 pm
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Now, human language is the attempt to express the truth that is within. I am fully persuaded that a baby whose language consists of unintelligible sounds is ...
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Nov 14, 2006 2:17 pm
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The bound souls are tied to the world by the fetters of `woman and gold'. They are bound by hand and foot. Thinking that `woman and gold' will make them happy...
Men may be divided into four classes: those bound by the fetters of the world, the seekers after liberation, the liberated and the ever- free. Suppose a net...
From time to time, a worldly person should live in the company of holy men, and also go into solitude to meditate on God. Furthermore, he should practice...
From time to time he should live in the company of holy men, and from time to time go into solitude to meditate on God. P. 87 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna...
So, we need not throw a thing overboard because it is clothed in mythology, because it does not fit in with the notions of Mr. So-and-so or Mrs. So-and-so of...
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Nov 16, 2006 2:14 pm
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*OM SRI RAMAKRISHNA* Dear sisters, brothers and friends: Hope this finds you all right with His grace. Let us heartily welcome the newest members to our holy...
To return to mythology. Behind all these stories we find one idea standing supreme — that man is a degeneration of what he was. Coming to the present times,...
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Nov 21, 2006 2:10 pm
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God was wonderstruck Source: http://www.ramakrishnamath.com Once a famous scholar was lecturing on God. Suddenly a man appeared before him. The scholar asked...
Sri Ramakrishna Saranam Meeting Swami Brahmananda DILIP KUMAR ROY Dilip Kumar Roy (1897-1980), a well known musician, singer, poet and writer, enriched...
The House We Build Source: http://www.ramakrishnamath.com An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer-contractor of his plans to leave the...
He always walks by himself Source: http://www.ramakrishnamath.com There is no way to push him here and there, you cannot manipulate him; he remains there,...
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