“He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realise God in this very life”

Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 2

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“He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realise God in this very life”

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