Ramakrishna on faith in god
Ramakrishna179 quotes“It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form.”
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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Some drink it at one place and call it ‘jal’, others at another place and call it ‘pani’, and still others at a third place and call it ‘water’.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna One should always maintain an attitude of respect towards other religions. Dispute not, as you rest firmly on your own faith and opinion
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna 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.
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