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.
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. .
More Ramakrishna Quotes
-
-
It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe
RAMAKRISHNA -
If you keep your heart immersed always in the depth of that holy love, your heart is sure to remain ever full to overflowing with the Divine fervour of sacred love.
RAMAKRISHNA -
God 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.
RAMAKRISHNA -
So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.
RAMAKRISHNA -
Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully.
RAMAKRISHNA -
When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
RAMAKRISHNA -
He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.
RAMAKRISHNA -
The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’.
RAMAKRISHNA -
As long as I live, so long do I learn.
RAMAKRISHNA -
God, the true Philosopher’s Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart
RAMAKRISHNA -
Little children play with dolls in the outer room just as they like, without any care of fear or restraint; but as soon as their mother comes in, they throw aside their dolls and run to her crying, “Mamma, mamma.
RAMAKRISHNA -
Imagine 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.
RAMAKRISHNA -
Sugar 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.
RAMAKRISHNA -
So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the flower emitting the buzzing sound; but when it is inside the flower
RAMAKRISHNA -
Do 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.
RAMAKRISHNA