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Ramakrishna Quotes & Sayings

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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth. — Ramakrishna

What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice. — Ramakrishna

The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself. — Ramakrishna

Great men have the nature of a child. — Ramakrishna

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day. — Ramakrishna

Men bound hand and foot in the endless chain of cause & effect cannot free each other. — Ramakrishna

Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything. — Ramakrishna

Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru's words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself. — Ramakrishna

By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed ... He who asserts with strong conviction: "I am not bound, I am free," becomes free. — Ramakrishna

The name of God is identical with the Lord. — Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

All troubles come to an end when the ego dies — Ramakrishna

Can he rectify false weight whose own scales are uncertain? Can you enlighten your neighbor while you yourself have no light? — Ramakrishna

At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it. — Ramakrishna

Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal. — Ramakrishna

If you want to go east, don't go west. — Ramakrishna

If one has faith, one has everything. — Ramakrishna

The supreme purpose and goal for human life ... is to cultivate love. — Ramakrishna

God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride. — Ramakrishna

Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity. — Ramakrishna

The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze. — Ramakrishna

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything. — Ramakrishna

Fear: Fear is an emotion that is typically hardwired into our beings to ensure our safety. — Ramakrishna Reddy

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached. — Ramakrishna

The winds of God's grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails. — Ramakrishna

One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit. — Ramakrishna

Live like a mud-fish: its skin is bright and shiny even though it lives in mud. — Ramakrishna

Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad. — Ramakrishna

You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn't bear malice toward others. — Ramakrishna

Whoever wants God intensely, finds Him. Go and verify it in your own life. — Ramakrishna

It is necessary to pray to Him, with a longing Heart. — Ramakrishna

Have love for everyone, no one is other than you. — Ramakrishna

The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails. — Ramakrishna

As long as I live, so long do I learn. — Ramakrishna

Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe. — Ramakrishna

When the flower blooms
The bees come uninvited. — Ramakrishna

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them. — Ramakrishna

As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body. — Ramakrishna

Why should you renounce everything? You are all right as you are, following the middle ... — Ramakrishna

The goal of life is not the earning of money, but the service of God.p.114 — Ramakrishna

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God. — Ramakrishna

If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path. — Ramakrishna

Do yourself what you wish others to do. — Ramakrishna

The world is not impermanent if one lives there after knowing God. — Ramakrishna

All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one. — Ramakrishna

An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive — Ramakrishna

One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear. — Ramakrishna

The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing. — Ramakrishna

The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek. — Ramakrishna

Infinite are the paths and infinite the opinions. — Ramakrishna

Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be. — Ramakrishna

Honour both spirit and form, the sentiment within as well as the symbol without. — Ramakrishna

God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer. — Ramakrishna

When divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low. — Ramakrishna

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God. — Ramakrishna

With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions. — Ramakrishna

It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. — Ramakrishna

Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot. — Ramakrishna

I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama . — Ramakrishna

Now... We are going in a loop. — Ramakrishna

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. — Ramakrishna

The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away. — Ramakrishna

Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace. — Ramakrishna

Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God. — Ramakrishna

Do all your duties, but keep your mind on God. Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna,p.81 — Ramakrishna

Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant. — Ramakrishna

Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally. — Ramakrishna

If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them. — Ramakrishna

Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone. — Ramakrishna

He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life. — Ramakrishna

So many religions, so many paths to reach the one and the same goal. — Ramakrishna

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it. — Ramakrishna

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

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God. — Ramakrishna

Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic. — Ramakrishna

As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge. — Ramakrishna

That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge. — Ramakrishna

A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him. — Ramakrishna

Man suffers through lack of faith in God. — Ramakrishna

There is no hope for a worldly man if he is not sincerely devoted to God. — Ramakrishna

The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.] — Ramakrishna

You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings. — Ramakrishna

The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself. — Ramakrishna

God had created the world in play. — Ramakrishna

Respect is heaven, respect is liberation. — Ramakrishna

Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart. — Ramakrishna

Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God. — Ramakrishna

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

As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee's feet. — Ramakrishna

If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that. — Ramakrishna

The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves? — Ramakrishna

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth. — Ramakrishna

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house. — Ramakrishna

Let's not go into the past. — Ramakrishna

Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love. — Ramakrishna

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone. — Ramakrishna

The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God's compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless. — Ramakrishna

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here. — Ramakrishna

He who is called Krishna is also Siva and the Primal Sakti ... He again, who is called Jesus and Allah. Truth is one. — Ramakrishna

The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again. — Ramakrishna

The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death. — Ramakrishna