Ramakrishna Quotes

Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.

You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there...

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshippin...

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth...

As long as I live, so long do I learn.

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 w...

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in...

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious...

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leav...

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in cou...

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the r...

If you want to go east, don't go west.

God has made different religions to suit different aspirants, times, and countries. All doctrines ar...

God has revealed to me that only the Paramatman, whom the Vedas describe as the Pure Soul, is as imm...

Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learnin...

One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very...

You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do ...

What Brahman is cannot be described. All things in the world — the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras, ...

Let's not go into the past.

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and...

Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a li...

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the mi...

That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negatio...

God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is,...

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without w...

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever...