God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
Category Archive: Ramakrishna
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.
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.
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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.
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.