Sri Ramakrishna Quotes and Sayings

• Unless a man is guileless, he doesn't receive the grace of God.
   

• Truth is one; only It is called by different names. All people are seeking the same Truth; the variance is due to climate, temperament, and name.
   

• Can one ever bring God under control through wealth? He can be tamed only through love. What does He want? Certainly not wealth! He wants from His devotees love, devotion, feeling, discrimination, and renunciation.
   

• While striving for the realization of God, the aspirant has to practise
  renunciation, applying the logic of 'Neti, neti'—'Not this, not this', But after attaining the vision of God, he realizes that God alone has become all things.
   

• The Knowledge of Brahman (Self-Realization) cannot be realized if the aspirant is worldly-minded even in the slightest degree. He succeeds in acquiring this Knowledge only when his mind is totally free from 'woman and gold'
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• The worldly man's devotion to God is momentary like a drop of water on a redhot frying-pan.
   

• Just as you practise much in order to sing, dance, and play on instruments, so one should practise the art of fixing the mind on God. One should practise regularly such disciplines as worship, japa, and meditation.