Ramakrishna Quotes

• If you want to go east, don’t go west.

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• Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.

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• Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.

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• If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

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• To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

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• Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

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• If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

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• God is everywhere but he is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshiping God.

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• It is necessary to pray to him, with a longing Heart.

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• As long as I live, so long do I learn.

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• The goal of life is not the earning of money, but the service of God.

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• Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.

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• The winds of God’s grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.

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• Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond.

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• The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.

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• God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.

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• Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.

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Birth:	18th February, 1836
Death:	16th August, 1886
Nationality:	Indian
Profession:	Philosopher, Priest

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