Those who wish to
attain God or make progress in their devotional practices should
particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth.
Otherwise they can never attain perfection.
---Ramkrishna
Do you
talk of social reform ? well, you may do so after realizing God.
Remember, the Rishis of old gave up the world in order to attain God.
This is the one thing needful. All other things shall be added to you,
if indeed you care to have them. First see God, and then talk of
lectures and social reforms.
---Ramkrishna
The true
nature of the Jiva is eternal Existence-Knowledge-Bliss. It is due to
egotism that he is limited by so many Upadhis (limiting adjuncts), and
his forgotten his real nature.
---Ramkrishna
If you can
find out the nature of Maya, the universal illusion, it will fly away
from you just as a thief runs away when detected.
---Ramkrishna
The cat
catches her kitten with her teeth and they are not hurt; but when a
mouse is so caught, it dies. Thus Maya never kills the devotee, though
it destroys others.
---Ramkrishna
He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.
---Ramkrishna
Jiva is
Shiva (all living beings are God). Who then dare talk of showing mercy
to them ?Not mercy, but service, service. For man must be regarded as
God.
---Ramkrishna
Let me be condemned to be born over and over again, even in the form of a dog, if so I can be of help to a single soul.
---Ramkrishna
As a piece
of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is
the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.
---Ramkrishna
A truly
religious man should think that other religions are also many paths
leading to the Truth. One should always maintain an attitude of respect
towards other religions.
---Ramkrishna
Every man
should follow his own religion. A Christian should follow Christianity,
and a Mohammedan Mohammedanism. For the Hindu, the ancient path, the
path of the Aryan Rishis, is the best.
---Ramkrishna
I will give up twenty thousand such bodies to help one man. It is glorious to help even one man.
---Ramkrishna
A boat may
stay in water, but water should not stay in the boat. An aspirant may
live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
---Ramkrishna
Do everything that is necessary in the proper time, and let your mind be always fixed on God.
---Ramkrishna
All
religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. many
rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. There all are one.
---Ramkrishna
The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly ad meek.
---Ramkrishna
Be as devoid of vanity as the cast away leaf carried by the high wind.
---Ramkrishna
God cannot
be seen so long as there is the slightest taint of desire. Therefore
have your minor desires satisfied, and renounce the major ones through
right reasoning and discrimination.
---Ramkrishna
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