Ramakrishna Quotes - Page 7

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

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

Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of the real and unreal. In short, It is beyond all relativity.

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

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

With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions. The Vaishnavas will realize God, and so will the Saktas, the Vedantists, and the Brahmos. The Mussalmans and Christians will realize Him too. All will certainly realize God if they are earnest and sincere.

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

How long do small girls play with their dolls? As long as they are not married and do not live with their husbands. After marriage they put the dolls away in a box. What further need is there of worshipping the image after the vision of God?

God has created the world in play, as it were.

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.

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

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.

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

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

As for myself, I look upon all women as my Mother. This is a very pure attitude of mind. There is no risk or danger in it. To look upon a woman as one's sister is also not bad. But the other attitudes are very difficult and dangerous. It is almost impossible to keep to the purity of the ideal.

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.

As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced form one parent seed of the tree, so from the one Lord is produced the whole of creation, animate and inanimate, spiritual and material.

Respect is heaven, respect is liberation.

Right discrimination is of two kinds analytical and synthetical. The first leads one from the phenomena to the Absolute Brahman, while by the second one knows how the Absolute Brahman appears as the universe.

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

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

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

What Brahman is cannot be described. All things in the world — the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras, the six systems of philosophy — have been defiled, like food that has been touched by the tongue, for they have been read or uttered by the tongue. Only one thing has not been defiled in this way, and that is Brahman. No one has ever been able to say what Brahman is.

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.