You see many stars
in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say
that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? O man, because
you cannot find the God in the days of your ignorance, say not that
there is no God.
---Ramkrishna
Man
suffers so much simply for want of devotion to God. One should therefore
adopt such means as would help the thought of God to arise in the mind
at the last moment of one's life. The means is practice of devotion to
God.
---Ramkrishna
There are
pearls in the deep sea, but you must hazard all perils to get them. If
you fail to get at them by a single dive, do not conclude that the sea
is without them. Dive again and again, and you are sure to be rewarded
in the end. So also in the quest for the Lord, if your first attempt to
see Him proves fruitless, do not lose heart.
---Ramkrishna
It is the
power of Brahman in man that causes the mind and the intellect and the
senses to perform their functions; and when that power ceases to act,
these also stop work.
---Ramkrishna
A man who
spends his time in discussing the good and bad qualities of others
simply waste his own time. For it is time spent neither in thinking
about one's own self nor about the Supreme Self, but is fruitless about
thinking of others selves.
---Ramkrishna
Be not a
traitor to your thoughts. Be sincere; act according to your thoughts;
and you shall surely succeed. Pray with a sincere and simple heart, and
your prayers will be heard.
---Ramkrishna
One is
safe to live in the world, if one has Viveka (discrimination of the real
from the unreal), and Vairagya (dispassion), and along with these
intense devotion to God.
---Ramkrishna
Water is
dried up at once if poured on a heap of ashes. Vanity is like this heap
of ashes. Prayer and contemplation produce no effect upon the heart
puffed up with vanity.
---Ramkrishna
He alone is the true teacher who is illumined by the light of true Knowledge.
---Ramkrishna
Sugar and
sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and carries
away the grains of sugar. So the holy Paramahamsas and pious men
successfully sift the good from the bad.
---Ramkrishna
The
magnetic needle always points to north, and hence it is that the sailing
vessel does not loose her direction. So long as the heart of man is
directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.
---Ramkrishna
He is a true man who is dead
even in this life-- that is, whose passions and propensities have been curbed to extinctions as in a dead body.
---Ramkrishna
Seekest
thou God? Then see him in man; His divinity is manifest more in man than
in any other object. Man is the greatest manifestation of God.
---Ramkrishna
Look at
the anvil of a blacksmith --- how it hammered and beaten; yet it moves
not from its place. Let man learn patience and endurance from it.
---Ramkrishna
One can
ascend to the top of a house by means of a ladder or a bamboo or a
staircase or a rope; so too, diverse are the ways of approaching God and
each religion in the world shows one of the ways.
---Ramkrishna
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