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Sri Ramakrishna Sayings
- Give up worldly talk altogether. Don't
talk about anything whatever but God. If you see a worldly person
coming near you, leave the place before he arrives. You have spent
your whole life in the world. You have seen that it is all hollow.
Isn't that so? God alone is Substance, and all else is illusory. God
alone is real, and all else has only a two-days existence. What is
there in the world? The world is like a pickled hog plum: one craves
for it. But what is there in a hog plum? Only skin and pit. And if
you eat it you will have colic.
- God is our Inner Controller. Pray to Him
with a pure and guileless heart. He will explain everything to you.
Give up egotism and take refuge in Him. You will realize everything.
- You don't have to renounce everything.
Live in the world the way the tortoise does. The tortoise roams
about in the water but keeps its eggs on land. Its whole mind is on
the eggs.
- A man cannot realize God unless he
renounces everything mentally.
- They catch fish with a bamboo trap. The
bamboo is naturally straight. But why is it bent in the trap? In
order to catch the fish. Desires are the fish. Therefore the mind is
bent down toward the world. If there are no desires, the mind
naturally looks up toward God.
- He who has seen God finds that God alone
has become the world and all its living beings; it is He who has
become all. Such a person is called a superior devotee.
- The sign of a man's having realized God is
that he has become like a dry coconut. He has become utterly free
from the consciousness that he is the body. He does not feel happy
or unhappy with the happiness or unhappiness of the body. He does
not seek the comforts of the body. He roams about in the world as a
jivanmukta, one liberated in life.
- When you find that the very mention of
God's name brings tears to your eyes and makes your hair stand on
end, then you will know that you have freed yourself from attachment
to 'woman and gold' and attained God. If the matches are dry, you
get a spark by striking only one of them. But if they are damp, you
don't get a spark even if you strike fifty. You only waste matches.
Similarly, if your mind is soaked in the pleasure of worldly things,
in 'woman and gold', then God-Consciousness will not be kindled in
you. You may try a thousand times, but all your efforts will be
futile. But no sooner does attachment to worldly pleasure dry up
than the spark of God flashes forth.
- All worship and spiritual discipline are
directed to one end alone, namely, to get rid of worldly attachment.
The more you meditate on God, the less you will be attached to the
trifling things of the world. The more you love the Lotus Feet of
God, the less you will crave the things of the world or pay heed to
creature comforts. You will look on another man's wife as your
mother and regard your own wife as your companion in spiritual life.
You will get rid of your bestial desires and acquire godly
qualities. You will be totally unattached to the world.
- Sri Krishna has a peacock feather on His
crest. The feather bears the sign of the female sex. The
significance of this is that Krishna carries Prakriti, the female
principle, on His head. When Krishna joined the circle of the gopis
to dance with them, He appeared there as a woman. That is why you
see Him wearing women's apparel in the company of the gopis. Unless
a man assumes the nature of a woman, he is not entitled to her
company. Assuming the attitude of a woman, he can sport with her and
enjoy her company.
- How much of the scriptures can you read?
What will you gain by mere reasoning? Try to realize God before
anything else. Have faith in the guru's words, and work. If you have
no guru, then pray to God with a longing heart. He will let you know
what He is like.
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