If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
Category Archive: Ramakrishna
Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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.
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.
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.
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.