Ramakrishna Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ramakrishna
Ramakrishna Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.
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.
When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
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 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 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.
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.