If you want to go east, don’t go west.
RAMAKRISHNAIf you want to go east, don’t go west.
RAMAKRISHNAImagine 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.
RAMAKRISHNAThe world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
RAMAKRISHNAMore are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
RAMAKRISHNAPray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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
RAMAKRISHNAThe less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .
RAMAKRISHNAAllow others also equal liberty to stand by their own faith and opinion.
RAMAKRISHNAGod is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
RAMAKRISHNASo it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.
RAMAKRISHNADo not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
RAMAKRISHNAIt is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable.
RAMAKRISHNAThis side is mine and that side is yours.’ He laughs and says to Himself, ‘The whole universe belongs to Me, but they say they own this portion or that portion.’it!’
RAMAKRISHNAYou too, are now playing in this material world, infatuated with the dolls of wealth, honour, fame, etc.
RAMAKRISHNAOne cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.
RAMAKRISHNAAn ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive
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