Ramakrishna
Ramakrishna
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Ramkṛiṣṇo Pôromôhongśo ; 18 February 1836 – 16 August 1886), born Gadadhar Chatterji or Gadadhar Chattopadhyay, was an Indian mystic and yogi during the 19th-century...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth18 February 1836
CountryIndia
god night thinking
If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.
selfish eye love-is
There are three kinds of love; unselfish, mutual, and selfish. The unselfish love is of the highest kind; The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings. In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also. It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe.
goal purpose life-is
The supreme purpose and goal for human life... is to cultivate love.
ocean two water
Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both inside and outside the pot. The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is 'I-consciousness'. Because of the pot the water appears to be divided into two parts; because of the pot you seem to perceive an inside and an outside. One feels that way as long as this pot of 'I' exists. When the 'I' disappears, what is remains. That cannot be described in words.
heart selfless god-love
Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.
love heart asking
Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
travel four earth
Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
vision divine lows
When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
heart talking grace
Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
men agents states
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
children men greatness
Great men have the nature of a child.
house soul body
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
world remember should
The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.
wind grace blowing-it
The winds of God's grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.