Quotes by Ramakrishna

About Ramakrishna:

Ramakrishna was an Indian mystic and yogi during the 19th-century. His religious school of thought led to the formation of the Ramakrishna Mission by his chief disciple Swami Vivekananda. Tota Puri gave him the name Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.
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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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Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

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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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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

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God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

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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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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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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

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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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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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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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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.

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

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If you want to go east, don't go west.

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Author Bio

  • NameRamakrishna
  • DescriptionIndian mystic
  • Aliases@ Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa; @ Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna
  • BornFebruary 18, 1836
  • DiedAugust 16, 1886
  • CountryIndia
  • ProfessionPhilosopher