Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water.
RAMAKRISHNADisease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
-
-
So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
RAMAKRISHNA -
The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .
RAMAKRISHNA -
He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
RAMAKRISHNA -
So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the flower emitting the buzzing sound; but when it is inside the flower
RAMAKRISHNA -
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
RAMAKRISHNA -
Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss.
RAMAKRISHNA -
When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.
RAMAKRISHNA -
God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient’s mother, ‘Don’t be afraid, mother; I shall certainly cure your boy.’
RAMAKRISHNA -
So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.
RAMAKRISHNA -
Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
RAMAKRISHNA -
God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
RAMAKRISHNA -
Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
RAMAKRISHNA -
It noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas
RAMAKRISHNA -
I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner
RAMAKRISHNA -
It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form.
RAMAKRISHNA