The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .
RAMAKRISHNAThe less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .
RAMAKRISHNAOne should not think, ‘My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.’ God can be realized by means of all paths.
RAMAKRISHNADo yourself what you wish others to do.
RAMAKRISHNAAll, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
RAMAKRISHNAYou see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
RAMAKRISHNASo it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.
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.
RAMAKRISHNAThe world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
RAMAKRISHNASo long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
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.
RAMAKRISHNAThe jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’.
RAMAKRISHNAToo much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures.
RAMAKRISHNAAfter that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.
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.
RAMAKRISHNADisease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
RAMAKRISHNAMan suffers through lack of faith in God.
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