Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (18 February 1836 – 16
August 1886), born Gadadhar Chatterji or Gadadhar Chattopadhyay, was an Indian
mystic and yogi during the 19th-century.
Ramakrishna explained on different occasions
that god is both formed and formless and can appear to the devotee either way.
He often asked visitors whether they conceived of god as having qualities or as
being beyond qualities. He then proceeded to teach the devotee according to the
way he or she viewed the divine. His acceptance of different approaches to the
worship of God and the validity of different religious paths, such as
Christianity and Islam, is in the best tradition of the Universalist approach
to religion
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Quotes
An ocean of bliss may rain down from the
heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble that is all you receive
Ramakrishna
The winds of grace are always blowing, but you
have to raise the sail.
Ramakrishna
As long as I live, so long do I learn.
Ramakrishna
You should love everyone because God dwells in
all beings.
Ramakrishna
Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken
the plot.
Ramakrishna
God is in all men, but all men are not in God;
that is why we suffer.
Ramakrishna
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.
Ramakrishna
The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If
you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.
Ramakrishna
The Man who works for others, without any
selfish motive, really does good to himself.
Ramakrishna
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in
man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
Ramakrishna
If you must be mad, be it not for the things of
the world. Be mad with the love of God.
Ramakrishna
The world is impermanent. One should constantly
remember death.
Ramakrishna
Great men have the nature of a child.
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.
Ramakrishna
When the divine vision is attained, all appear
equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
Ramakrishna
Travel in all the four quarters of the earth,
yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
Ramakrishna
Through selfless work, love of God grows in
heart.
Ramakrishna
The supreme purpose and goal for human life...
is to cultivate love.
Ramakrishna
If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire
its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of
God.
Ramakrishna
Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing.
All else is unreal.
Ramakrishna
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books,
but merely reading them will not make one religious.
Ramakrishna
Man suffers through lack of faith in God.
Ramakrishna
Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a
human being only to attain divine love.
Ramakrishna
Make your meditation a continuous state of mind.
A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or
excluded from your constant meditative awareness.
Ramakrishna
Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to
separation.
So long as God seems to be outside and far away,
there is ignorance.
But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
Ramakrishna
One should not think, 'My religion alone is the
right path and other religions are false.' God can be realized by means of all
paths. It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths
and infinite are the opinions.
Ramakrishna
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