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Sri Ramakrishna Quotes and Sayings
- No one can say with finality that God is
only 'this' and nothing else. He is formless, and again He has
forms. For the bhakta He assumes forms. But He is formless for the
jnani, that is, for him who looks on the world as a mere dream. The
bhakta feels that he is one entity and the world another. Therefore
God, reveals Himself to him as a Person. But the jnani — the
Vedantist, for instance — always reasons, applying the process of
'Not this, not this'. Through this discrimination he realizes, by
his inner perception, that the ego and the universe are both
illusory, like a dream. Then the jnani realizes Brahman in his own
consciousness. He cannot describe what Brahman is.
- Take shelter in God.
- About the occult powers, Sri Krishna said
to Arjuna, 'Friend, if you find anyone who has acquired even one of
the eight powers, then know for certain he will not realize Me.' For
powers surely beget pride, and God
cannot be realized if there is the slightest trace of pride.
- Bondage is of the mind, and freedom is
also of the mind.
- You may speak of the scriptures, of
philosophy, of Vedanta; but you will not find God in any of these.
You will never succeed in realizing God unless your soul becomes
restless for Him.
- Prema means such love for God that it
makes a man forget the world and also his body, which is so dear to
him.
- If you meditate on an ideal you will
acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will
acquire the nature of God. A salt doll went into the ocean to
measure its depth. It became one with the ocean.
- The traits of a worldly man endowed with
tamas are sleep, lust, anger, egotism, and the like.
- A householder, of course, needs money, for
he has a wife and children. He should save up to feed them. They say
that the bird and the sannyasi should not provide for the future.
But the mother bird brings food in her mouth for her chicks; so she
too provides. A householder needs money. He has to support his
family.
- In the scriptures you will find the way to
realize God. But after getting all the information about the path,
you must begin to work, Only then can you attain your goal.
- A man thinks of God, no doubt, but he has
no faith in Him. Again and again he forgets God and becomes attached
to the world. It is like giving the elephant a bath; afterwards he
covers his body with mud and dirt again. 'The mind is a mad
elephant.' But if you can make the elephant go into the stable
immediately after bathing him, then he stays clean. Just so, if a
man thinks of God in the hour of death, then his mind becomes pure
and it gets no more opportunity to become attached to 'woman and
gold'
- What need is there of renouncing the world
altogether? It is enough if you can rid yourself of attachment. But
you must have sadhana (spiritual practice) you have to fight the
sense-organs.
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