A Quote by Ramakrishna

When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.

Ramakrishna

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Appears Blossom Drops Fruit God Love Off Rituals

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Ramakrishna
Indian - Leader
February 18, 1836 - August 16, 1886

The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant's existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom.

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There are days we live as if death were nowhere in the background; from joy to joy to joy, from wing to wing, from blossom to blossom to impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.

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