The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek. Ramakrishna More Quotes by Ramakrishna More Quotes From Ramakrishna When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again. Ramakrishna ignorancefiremen Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything. Ramakrishna personshave-faith If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God. Ramakrishna godnightthinking The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God's compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless. Ramakrishna givenprotectcompassion The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death. Ramakrishna shouldrememberworld You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings. Ramakrishna love-everyoneshouldgod If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God. Ramakrishna madgodworld I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner, the virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous. Ramakrishna saintdifferentpeople 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. Ramakrishna mind-freedomsoulson Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. Ramakrishna readingreligiousbook The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze. Ramakrishna persistencedeterminationgrace Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don't have to avoid evil. They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action. They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God. Ramakrishna spirituallovemoving When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them. Ramakrishna relatives-and-friendscompassionchildren Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss. The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance. The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God . Ramakrishna blissattachmentignorance If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them. Ramakrishna healingseadoe The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward. Ramakrishna boatgracemoving 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. Ramakrishna starsignorancenight Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love. Ramakrishna divinetryinglove As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger. Ramakrishna fixingboysfall If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that. Ramakrishna errorscareworld
