Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
RAMAKRISHNAUnalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
RAMAKRISHNAThe ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.
RAMAKRISHNAForgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
RAMAKRISHNAHe whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
RAMAKRISHNAMan needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru’s words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.
RAMAKRISHNAThe physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each
RAMAKRISHNAThere are three kinds of love; unselfish, mutual, and selfish. The unselfish love is of the highest kind; The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings. .
RAMAKRISHNABhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
RAMAKRISHNAThe virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner
RAMAKRISHNAI 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
RAMAKRISHNASo long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
RAMAKRISHNAThey are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action.
RAMAKRISHNAFinish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
RAMAKRISHNAThe winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
RAMAKRISHNAFirst realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.
RAMAKRISHNAOne feels that way as long as this pot of ‘I’ exists. When the ‘I’ disappears, what is remains. That cannot be described in words.
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