Ramakrishna Quotes

That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.

So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.

Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.

Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both inside and outside the pot.

It noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas

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.

Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.

God laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save other,

One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.

Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.