Ramakrishna Quotes
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God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
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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.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
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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.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within. So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy , and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
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If one has faith one has everything.
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Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.
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Those who wish to attain God and progress in religious devotion, should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth. Otherwise they can never attain perfection.
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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal. So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.
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Do yourself what you wish others to do.
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It is not good for ordinary people to say, 'I am He.' The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves? The upshot of the whole thing is that, no matter what path you follow, yoga is impossible unless the mind becomes quiet. The mind of a yogi is under his control; he is not under the control of his mind.
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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