Sri Ramakrishna Quotes and Sayings

• Discrimination is the reasoning by which one knows that God alone is real and all else is unreal. Real means eternal, and unreal means impermanent. He who has acquired discrimination knows that God is the only Substance and all else is nonexistent. With the awakening of this spirit of discrimination a man wants to know God.
   

• Through discrimination between the Real and the unreal one seeks
  to know God.
   

• By turning the mind within oneself one acquires discrimination, and through discrimination one thinks of Truth.
   

• It will be very good if you can practise unselfish love for God. A man who has such love says: 'O Lord, I do not seek salvation, fame, wealth, or cure of disease. None of these do I seek. I want only Thee.' Many are the people who come to a rich man with various desires. But if someone comes to him simply out of love, not wanting any favour, then the rich man feels attracted to him. Prahlada had this unselfish love, this pure love for God without any worldly end.
   

• Renunciation does not mean simply dispassion for the world. It means dispassion for the world and also longing for God.
   

• One does not know when or how God will reveal Himself.
   

• You no doubt need money for your worldly life; but don't worry too much about it. The wise course is to accept what comes of its own
  accord. Don't take too much trouble to save money. Those who surrender their hearts and souls to God, those who are devoted to Him and have taken refuge in Him, do not worry much about money. As they earn, so they spend. The money comes in one way and goes out the other. This is what the Gita describes as 'accepting
  what comes of its own accord'.
   

• Live in the world but, in order to realize God, hold fast to His Lotus Feet with one hand and with the other do your duties. When you get a respite from your duties, cling to God's Lotus Feet with both hands—live in solitude and meditate on Him and serve Him ceaselessly.