Ramakrishna Quotes

That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.

Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.

Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru's words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.

Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.

At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it.

Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.

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 will in no way affect you.

As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.

It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false.

The world is not impermanent if one lives there after knowing God.

If one has faith, one has everything.

God has created the world in play, as it were.

Respect is heaven, respect is liberation.

Those who wish to attain God and progress in religious devotion, should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth. Otherwise they can never attain perfection.

I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama .

If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.

The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.

With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions.

Let's not go into the past.

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

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 who can bind me' free you shall be.