Quotes from Ramakrishna


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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.


When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.


Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.


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


It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.


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


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


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.


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


Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.


When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.


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.


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


Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.


Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.


Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.


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.


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


The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.