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.
Category Archive: Ramakrishna
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.
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
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.
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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.
Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.