Sri RamaKrishna says Bondage and liberation are of the mind alone

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" It is all a question of the mind. Bondage and liberation are of the mind

alone.

 

The mind will take the colour you dye it with. It is like white clothes just

returned from the laundry. If you dip them in red dye, they will be red. If

you dip them in blue or green, they will be blue or green. They will take

only the colour you dip them in, whatever it may be.

 

If you are in bad company, then you will talk and think like your

companions. On the other hand, when you are in the company of devotees, you

will think and talk only of God.

 

" The mind is everything. A man has his wife on one side and his daughter on

the other. He shows his affection to them in different ways. But his mind is

one and the

same.

 

" Bondage is of the mind, and freedom is also of the mind. A man is free if

he constantly thinks: 'I am a free soul. How can I he bound, whether I live

in the world or in the forest? I am a child of God, the King of Kings. Who

can bind me?'

 

Source: THE GOSPEL OF RAMAKRISHNA

 

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Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya

Prasanth Jalasutram

 

Love And Love Alone