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.
Category Archive: Ramakrishna
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.
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.