In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also.
RAMAKRISHNAIn mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also.
RAMAKRISHNAGod is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
RAMAKRISHNAWhen one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
RAMAKRISHNAGod 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.
RAMAKRISHNAHearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
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. .
RAMAKRISHNAYou should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn’t bear malice toward others.
RAMAKRISHNAThe sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.
RAMAKRISHNASugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
RAMAKRISHNAThe fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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.
RAMAKRISHNAWho is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
RAMAKRISHNAIt is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe
RAMAKRISHNAThe winds of God’s grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.
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 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
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