Ramakrishna

“You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.”

“Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.”

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

“Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.”

“Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.”

“תופעה ידועה בהודו היא שחסידים של האל קרישנה, כמו ראמהקרישנה ופונג'ה־ג'י, עוטים על עצמם בגדי נשים, מתאפרים ומתקשטים בתכשיטים.”

“הכוח השקט שעיצב את דמותה הרוחנית של הודו.”

“כשמגיעים להארה אלוהית הכול נראה שווה. אין אבחנה בין טוב לרע או בין עליון לתחתון.”

“אם אתה רוצה ללכת מזרחה, אל תלך מערבה.”

“אלוהים הינו אחד, אבל שמותיו רבים.”

“כמספר האמונות, כה רב מספר הדרכים.”

“אם כל הזמן אתה חושב על חטאך, אזי אתה חטא.”

“הפתרון החכם להתעלות מעבר לסבל הינו התעוררות מבערות.”

“God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.”

“It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.”

“When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.”

“Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.”

“Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.”

“When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.”

“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.”