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. #RamakrishnaParamahamsa #RamkrishnaParamahamsa

God has been described in the Vedas as both with attributes and without. If you know one of His aspects truly, you will be able to know His other aspects too. God Himself will tell you all about them. But dogmatism is not good. #RamkrishnaParamahamsa

Your duty is to remain somehow united with God. It doesn't matter what kind of action you are engaged in. You can be united with God through any action provided that, performing it, you give up all desire for its result. #RamkrishnaParamahamsa

Many people think that their opinion alone is right and others' opinions are wrong; that they alone have won and others have lost. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of God. We cannot understand His ways. #RamkrishnaParamahamsa

Many are the names of God, and infinite the forms that lead us to know Him. In whatsoever name or form you desire to call Him, in that very form and name you will see Him. #RamakrishnaParamahamsa #RamkrishnaParamahamsa

God doesn't take entire responsibility for a devotee unless the devotee is completely intoxicated with ecstatic love for Him. Not until a man thinks so much of God that he cannot look after himself does God take on his responsibilities. #RamkrishnaParamahamsa

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled. #RamkrishnaParamahamsa

An egotistic person cannot realize God. Do you know what egotism is like? It is like a high mound, where rain-water cannot collect: the water runs off. Water collects in low land. There seeds sprout and grow into trees. Then the trees bear fruit. #RamkrishnaParamahamsa

When I look around with my eyes open, I see that God dwells in all beings. He is the Indwelling Spirit of all-men, animals and other living beings, trees and plants, sun and moon, land and water. #RamkrishnaParamahamsa

Everybody will surely be liberated. But one should follow the instructions of the Guru; if one follows a devious path, one will suffer in trying to retrace one's steps. It takes a long time to achieve liberation. #RamkrishnaParamahamsa

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then, through His grace, one realizes Him in course of time. God can be seen, one can talk to Him, as I am talking to you. #RamakrishnaParamahamsa #RamkrishnaParamahamsa

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Radha had attained mahabhava. There was no desire behind the ecstatic love of the gopis. A true lover does not seek anything from God. He prays only for pure love. He doesn't want any powers or miracles. #RamkrishnaParamahamsa

As long as you live inside the house of māyā, as long as there exists the cloud of māyā, you do not see the effect of the Sun of Knowledge. Come outside the house of māyā, give up 'lust and greed', and then the Sun of Knowledge will destroy ignorance. #RamkrishnaParamahamsa

The characteristic of a thoroughly worldly man is that he does not only not listen to hymns, religious discourses, praises of the Almighty, but also prevents others from hearing them, and abuses religious men and societies, and scoffs at prayers. #RamkrishnaParamahamsa

You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God. #RamkrishnaParamahamsa

As the water enters in on one side under the bridge, and soon passes out on the other, so religious advice affects worldly souls. It enters into them by one ear and goes out by the other, without making any impression upon their minds. #RamkrishnaParamahamsa

This world is like a stage, where men perform many parts under various disguises. They do not like to take off the mask, unless they have played for some time. Let them play for a while, and then they will leave off the mask of their own accord. #RamkrishnaParamahamsa

One can attain everything through bhakti yoga. I wept before the Mother & prayed, 'O Mother, please tell me, please reveal to me, what the yogis have realized through yoga & the jnanis through discrimination.' The Mother has revealed everything to me. #RamkrishnaParamahamsa