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Sri Ramakrishna Quotations and Quotes
- Who can ever know God? I don't even try. I
only call on Him as Mother. Let Mother do whatever She likes. I
shall know Her if it is Her will; but I shall be happy to remain
ignorant if She wills otherwise. My nature is that of a kitten. It
only cries, 'Mew, mew!' The rest it leaves to its mother. The mother
cat puts the kitten sometimes in the kitchen and sometimes on the
master's bed. The young child wants only his mother.
- One can realize God through intense
renunciation. But the soul must be restless for Him, as restless as
one feels for a breath of air when one's head is pressed under
water.
- If a devotee prays to God with real
longing, God cannot help revealing Himself to him.
- You must have firm conviction, you must
pray to Him whole-heartedly.
- The time is ripe for you to devote your
mind to the Lotus Feet of God. If you realize God, you will get
everything else. First God, then charity, doing good to others,
doing good to the world, and redeeming people.
- What can you achieve by mere lecturing and
scholarship without discrimination and dispassion? God alone is
real, and all else is unreal. God alone is substance, and all else
is nonentity. That is discrimination
- 'I' and 'mine'—that is ignorance. True
knowledge makes one feel: 'O God, You alone do everything. You alone
are my own. And to You alone belong houses, buildings, family,
relatives, friends, the whole world. All is Yours.' But ignorance
makes one feel: 'I am doing everything. I am the doer. House,
buildings, family, children, friends, and property are all mine.'
- There are two types of paramahamsas: the
jnani and the premi. The jnani is self-centred; he feels that it is
enough to have Knowledge for his own self. The premi, like Sukadeva,
after attaining his own realization, teaches men. Some eat mangoes
and wipe off the traces from their mouths; but some share their
mangoes with others. Spades and baskets are needed to dig a well.
After the digging is over, some throw the spades and baskets into
the well. But others put them away; for a neighbour may use them.
Sukadeva and a few others kept the spades and baskets for the
benefit of others.
- Man has no faith in God. That is the
reason he suffers so much. They say that when you plunge into the
holy waters of the Ganges your sins perch on a tree on the bank. No
sooner do you come out of the water after the bath than the sins
jump back on your shoulders. A man must prepare the way beforehand,
so that he may think of God in the hour of death. The way lies
through constant practice. If a man practises meditation on God, he
will remember God even on the last day of his life.
- The worldly man is a hypocrite. He cannot
be guileless. He professes to love God, but he is attracted by
worldly objects. He doesn't give God even a very small part of the
love he feels for 'woman and gold'. But he says that he loves God.
- It is all a question of the mind. Bondage
and liberation are of the mind alone. The mind will take the colour
you dye it with. It is like white clothes just returned from the
laundry. If you dip them in red dye, they will be red. If you dip
them in blue or green, they will be blue or green. They will take
only the colour you dip them in, whatever it may be. Haven't you
noticed that, if you read a little English, you at once begin to
utter English words: Foot fut it mit?8 Then you put on boots and
whistle a tune, and so on. It all goes together. Or, if a scholar
studies Sanskrit, he will at once rattle off Sanskrit verses. If you
are in bad company, then you will talk and think like your
companions. On the other hand, when you are in the company of
devotees, you will think and talk only of God.
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