ramakrishna Quotes

“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.”

“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.”

“If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.”

“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.”

“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.”

“One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.”

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

“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.”

“Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.”

“You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.”