Sri Ramakrishna Quotes and Sayings

• Pray to the Divine Mother, who is the Bestower of all bliss. She will take away your troubles.
   

• "God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when two brothers divide land between them. They put a string across the land and say to each other, 'This side is mine, and that side is yours. God laughs and says to Himself, 'Why, this whole universe is Mine; and about a little clod they say, "This side is mine, and that side is yours"!'
  "God laughs again when the physician says to the mother weeping bitterly because of her child's desperate illness: 'Don't be afraid, mother. I shall cure your child.' The physician does not know that no one can save the child if God wills that he should die."
   

• Brahman (God) is beyond mind and speech. A salt doll entered the ocean to measure its depth; but it did not return to tell others how deep the ocean was. It melted in the ocean itself.
   

• What is the use of sowing a boiled paddy grain? It will never bring forth a shoot. Likewise, if a man is boiled in the fire of Knowledge, he will not be used for new creation. He is liberated.
   

• Do your duty in the world but remember that the "pestle of death" will some time smash your hand. Be alert about it.
   

• If you find a person free from ego, then know for certain that he has seen God.
   

• One should learn the essence of the scriptures from the guru and then practise sadhana (spiritual practice). If one rightly follows spiritual discipline, then one directly sees God. The discipline is said to be rightly followed only when one plunges in. What will a man
  gain by merely reasoning about the words of the scriptures? Ah, the fools! They reason themselves to death over information about the path. They never take the plunge. What a pity!