Ramakrishna on meditate
“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.”
More Ramakrishna quotes
Because of the pot the water appears to be divided into two parts; because of the pot you seem to perceive an inside and an outside.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive
RamakrishnaRamakrishna He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i .e . in one ‘s own heart.)
RamakrishnaRamakrishna A truly religious man should think that other religions also have many paths leading to the truth.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna 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.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna He has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
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