Sri Ramakrishna Quotes and Sayings

• Yoga is possible when the mind becomes pure.
   

• God cannot be known by the sense-organs or by this mind;
  but He can be known by the pure mind, the mind that is free from worldiy desires.
   

• It is God alone who does everything. You may say that in that case man may commit sin. But that is not true. If a man is firmly convinced that God alone is the Doer and that he himself is nothing, then he will never make a false step.
   

• Those who have realized God are aware that free will is a mere appearance. In reality man is the machine and God its Operator, man is the carriage and God its Driver.
   

• You see how many opinions there are about God. Each opinion is a path. There are innumerable opinions and innumerable paths leading to God.
   

• You must stick to one path with all your strength. A man can reach the roof of a house by stone stairs or a ladder or a rope-ladder or a rope or even by a bamboo pole. But he cannot reach the roof if he sets foot now on one and now on another. He should firmly follow one path. Likewise, in order to realize God a man must follow one path with all his strength. But you must regard other views as so many paths leading to God. You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn't bear malice toward others.
   

• God doesn't take entire responsibility for a devotee unless the devotee is completely intoxicated with ecstatic love for Him. At
  a feast it is only a child whom one takes by the hand and seats at his place. Who does that with older people? Not until a man thinks so much of God that he cannot look after himself does God take on his responsibilities.