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
men together may
Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
path bears should
You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn't bear malice toward others.
children pride son
If you feel proud, let it be in the thought that you are the servant of God, the son of God. Great men have the nature of a child. They are always a child before Him; so they are free from pride. All their strength is of God and not their own. It belongs to Him and comes from Him.
spiritual years practice
If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.
philosophy world able
What Brahman is cannot be described. All things in the world — the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras, the six systems of philosophy — have been defiled, like food that has been touched by the tongue, for they have been read or uttered by the tongue. Only one thing has not been defiled in this way, and that is Brahman. No one has ever been able to say what Brahman is.
inspirational mother attitude
As for myself, I look upon all women as my Mother. This is a very pure attitude of mind. There is no risk or danger in it. To look upon a woman as one's sister is also not bad. But the other attitudes are very difficult and dangerous. It is almost impossible to keep to the purity of the ideal.
nuts dry green
Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.
west east want
If you want to go east, don't go west.
heart mind true-knowledge
That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
snakes body spirit
As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body.
mother running children
Little children play with dolls in the outer room just as they like, without any care of fear or restraint; but as soon as their mother comes in, they throw aside their dolls and run to her crying, "Mamma, mamma." You too, are now playing in this material world, infatuated with the dolls of wealth, honour, fame, etc., If however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.
men white ugly
If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.
faith have-faith enough
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.
satisfaction path devotion
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.