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
real meditation mind
Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of the real and unreal. In short, It is beyond all relativity.
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.
mind bondage liberation
Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
heart mind true-knowledge
That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
wise ignorant mind
It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.
son mind-freedom soul
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.
meditation mind worship
Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.
forms god indian-leader
Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
love
Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
alone average best dwells form heart inner perceive points poor sky
A poor devotee points to the sky and says, "God is up there." An average devotee says, "God dwells in the heart as the Inner Master." The best devotee says, "God alone is and everything I perceive is a form of God.
morning night sight
The rishis of old attained the Knowledge of Brahman. One cannot have this so long as there is the slightest trace of worldliness. How hard the rishis laboured ! Early in the morning they would go away from the hermitage, and would spend the whole day in solitude, meditating on Brahman. At night they would return to the hermitage and eat a little fruit or roots. They kept their mind aloof from the objects of sight, hearing, touch, and other things of a worldly nature. Only thus did they realize Brahman as their own inner conciousness.
advice skins mud
Live like a mud-fish: its skin is bright and shiny even though it lives in mud.
real animal elephants
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.
rama servant disciple
I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama .