Ramakrishna Quotes

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• To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward... Attachment
• God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer. All
• 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… All
• God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God. Everywhere
• 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… Argument
• If you want to go east, don't go west. East
• When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. Bees
• Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house. Body
• Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day. Attachment
• The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth. Believe
• Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. Book
• One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God. God
• If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God. God
• Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God… Bind
• Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here. All
• 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… Agent
• 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… Any
• 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… Affect
• The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to… Ask
• 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,… Approached

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