Ramakrishna Quotes

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A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agen Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mi nd. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the u God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good a God is in al l men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer. If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices wit If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then li ve in th If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God. If you want to go east, don't go west. It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it. Longing is li ke the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached . Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make o More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God. Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature c The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescr ibing medicine. As The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discar d the make-believe and tak Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally. Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize hi To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any puni Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever th Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal. Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth. When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relativ When the divine vision i s attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of go When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. Work, apart from devotion or love of God, i s helpless and cannot stand alone.

Transcript of Ramakrishna Quotes

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A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agen

Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the u

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach

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

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

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices wit

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in th

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature c

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

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As

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

Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize hi

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any puni

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever th

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

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

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relativ

When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of go

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

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

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and he by himself is powerless to do anything.

of God who can bind me' free you shall be.

se of the house.

the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a ro

s worshipping God.

hout wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain

midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

vision of God.

e religious.

. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.

mforts may become less and less every day.

itself.

hey leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest

the truth.

m in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

ishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

re is, is only here.

es and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

d and bad, or of high and low.

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pe. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

ill otherwise be muddled.

lass of physicians.