If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them. Ramakrishna More Quotes by Ramakrishna More Quotes From Ramakrishna These people are like ... a frog living in a well, who has never seen the outside world. He knows only his well, so he will not believe that there is such a thing as the world. Likewise, people talk so much about the world because they have not known the joy of God. Ramakrishna joy believe people Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone. Ramakrishna stand-alone devotion-to-god god-love Who may be called a paramahamsa? He who, like a swan, can take the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water. He who, like an ant, can take the sugar from a mixture of sugar and sand, leaving aside the sand. Ramakrishna swans leaving water With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions. The Vaishnavas will realize God, and so will the Saktas, the Vedantists, and the Brahmos. The Mussalmans and Christians will realize Him too. All will certainly realize God if they are earnest and sincere. Ramakrishna sincerity realizing christian 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. Ramakrishna lust religious perfection One cannot completely get rid of the six passions: lust, anger, greed, and the like. Therefore one should direct them to God. If you must have desire and greed, then you should desire love of God and be greedy to attain Him. Ramakrishna desire-love passion anger Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic. Ramakrishna true-nature God reveals Himself to a devotee who feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions: the attraction of worldly possessions for the worldly man, the child's attraction for its mother, and the husband's attraction for the chaste wife. If one feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions, then through it one can attain Him. Ramakrishna husband mother children If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path. Ramakrishna grace heart men As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced form one parent seed of the tree, so from the one Lord is produced the whole of creation, animate and inanimate, spiritual and material. Ramakrishna parent spiritual tree How long do small girls play with their dolls? As long as they are not married and do not live with their husbands. After marriage they put the dolls away in a box. What further need is there of worshipping the image after the vision of God? Ramakrishna husband girl play With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions. Ramakrishna earnestness sincerity realizing If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you. Ramakrishna self way firsts Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached. Ramakrishna through infinite god may Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here. Ramakrishna nothing you earth travel Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally. Ramakrishna naturally through discrimination love
