Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
RAMAKRISHNAPray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
RAMAKRISHNAPray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
RAMAKRISHNAIf you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.
RAMAKRISHNAWhen an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer
RAMAKRISHNASunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully.
RAMAKRISHNAThere is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The ‘I’ is the jar.
RAMAKRISHNAA bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges.
RAMAKRISHNABondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
RAMAKRISHNAThe Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
RAMAKRISHNASome 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’.
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.
RAMAKRISHNAIf you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.
RAMAKRISHNAThe winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
RAMAKRISHNAIf however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.
RAMAKRISHNAOne cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
RAMAKRISHNAAllow others also equal liberty to stand by their own faith and opinion.
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