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
strong mind conviction
By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. ... He who asserts with strong conviction: "I am not bound, I am free," becomes free.
attachment expectations rewards
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward...
humility pride ifs
God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
religious perfection lust
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.
knowing world things-change
The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]
heart bamboo easy
The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force. It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn
real have-faith faith-in-god
It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form. That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real. Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
fall men water
A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges. No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees. The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.
have-faith ifs
If one has faith, one has everything.
motivational knowing world
The world is not impermanent if one lives there after knowing God.
morning thinking roots
The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.
inspirational men light
One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtuous.
compassion given protect
The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God's compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.
love
Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.