Ramakrishna
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.Collection: Gardening
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.Collection: Men
Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.Collection: Work
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.Collection: Relationship
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.Collection: God
If you want to go east, don't go west.Collection: Wisdom
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.Collection: Fear
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.Collection: Freedom
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.Collection: Faith
If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.Collection: God
Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.Collection: God
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.Collection: God
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.Collection: Religion
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.Collection: Knowledge
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.Collection: Truth
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.Collection: Religion
Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.Collection: Travel
The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.Collection: Medical
The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.Collection: Ignorance
The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.Collection: Wind
All troubles come to an end when the ego diesCollection: Ego
A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.Collection: Spiritual
The supreme purpose and goal for human life... is to cultivate love.Collection: Goal
Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own. When one becomes spiritual, the ego vanishes gradually on its own. A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness.Collection: Spiritual
All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.Collection: Fall
The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.Collection: Heart
You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings.Collection: God
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.Collection: God
Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.Collection: Men
The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Meditation
Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.Collection: Inspirational
That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.Collection: Heart
An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receiveCollection: Rain
Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.Collection: Have Faith
Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.Collection: Love
The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.Collection: Moving