Ramakrishna quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Ramakrishna

Ramakrishna Famous Quotes & Sayings

Discover top inspirational quotes from Ramakrishna on Wise Famous Quotes.

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

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

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

Great men have the nature of a child.

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

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

Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.

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.

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.

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.

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

Do yourself what you wish others to do.

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

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

If one has faith, one has everything.

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

All troubles come to an end when the ego dies

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.

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

Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.

It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.

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

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

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

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

When the flower blooms
The bees come uninvited.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Infinite are the paths and infinite the opinions.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Now... We are going in a loop.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

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

Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.

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.

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

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

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

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

Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.

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.

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

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.

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

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

You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings.

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

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

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

God had created the world in play.

Respect is heaven, respect is liberation.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.

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

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

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

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

Man suffers through lack of faith in God.

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

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

Let's not go into the past.

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

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

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

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

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

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.