Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.
RAMAKRISHNAThrough selfless work, love of God grows in heart.
RAMAKRISHNAHearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
RAMAKRISHNACan you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
RAMAKRISHNAFirst realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.
RAMAKRISHNAThe supreme purpose and goal for human life… is to cultivate love.
RAMAKRISHNAAll, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
RAMAKRISHNASpirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.
RAMAKRISHNAGod in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
RAMAKRISHNADo yourself what you wish others to do.
RAMAKRISHNAThe less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .
RAMAKRISHNAA boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
RAMAKRISHNAIn 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.
RAMAKRISHNAThose whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don’t have to avoid evil.
RAMAKRISHNAYou speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world?
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. .
RAMAKRISHNAThis side is mine and that side is yours.’ He laughs and says to Himself, ‘The whole universe belongs to Me, but they say they own this portion or that portion.’it!’
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