Author: Ramakrishna

Quotes

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

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

- Ramakrishna

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.

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

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

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

- Ramakrishna

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

- Ramakrishna

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

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

- Ramakrishna

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

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

- Ramakrishna

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.

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.

- Ramakrishna

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

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

- Ramakrishna

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.

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.

- Ramakrishna

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