212 Quotes by Ramakrishna

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.

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.

One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

The goal of life is not the earning of money, but the service of God.p.114

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee? He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity. The water of God's grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.