What is God?
10 Quotations from Sri Ramakrishna
Sri Ramakrishna
Paramahansa represents the very core of the spiritual realizations of the seers
and sages of India. His whole life was an uninterrupted contemplation of God.
He reached a depth of God-consciousness that transcends all time and place and
has a universal appeal. Seekers of God of all religions feel irresistibly drawn
to Ramakrishna's life and teachings. Who better than this mystic can explain
the concept of God?
Here's my
collection of quotations about the true nature and infinite forms of the
Absolute and how to approach the Ultimate Reality - told by Ramakrishna in his
own inimitable way.
God is Love
If you must be mad, be
it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God…
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will
not make one religious. One must practice the virtues taught in such books in
order to acquire love of God.
God is True Knowledge
If you first
fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live
in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
When
the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no
distinction of good and bad, or of high and low… Good and evil cannot bind him
who has realized the oneness of Nature and his own self with Brahman.
God is in Your
Heart
Because of the
screen of Maya (illusion) that shuts off God from human view, one cannot see
Him playing in one's heart. After installing the Deity on the lotus of your
heart, you must keep the lamp of remembering God ever burning. While engaged in
the affairs of the world, you should constantly turn your gaze inwards and see
whether the lamp is burning or not.
God is in all men,
but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
God is Our
Father
As a nurse in a
wealthy family brings up her master's child, loving it as if it were her own,
yet knowing well that she has no claim upon it, so you also think that you are
but trustee and guardians of your children whose real father is the Lord
himself.
God is Infinite
Many are the names
of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
God is Truth
Unless one always
speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth. One must be
very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
God is above all Arguments
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 is Work
Work, apart from
devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
God is the End
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.
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