Ramakrishna Quotes

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

  Ramakrishna

  Topics in Religion

• Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

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  Topics in Love, Work

  Tags in Alone

• When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.

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  Topics in Vision

  Tags in Appear

• When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

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  Topics in God, Love

• Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Discrimination

• The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

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  Topics in Truth

  Tags in World

• The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Physicians, Class

• One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

  Ramakrishna

  Topics in Truth

• More 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.

  Ramakrishna

  Topics in God

• Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

  Ramakrishna

  Topics in God

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dawn, Longing

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

  Ramakrishna

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Want

• If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

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  Topics in Knowledge

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Faith, Desire

• God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

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  Topics in God

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Mind

• A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Man

Ramakrishna (37)

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

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