THE WONDERFUL PREACHING'S OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA ON DEVOTION TO GOD, THE ALMIGHTY.
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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA SRI RAMAKRISHNA SRI SARADA DEVI
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THE TEACHING OF GURU DEVAR SRI 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? O man, because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
- One is safe to live in the world, if one has Viveka (discrimination of the Real from the unreal), and Vairagya (dispassion), and along with these intense devotion to God.
- Be a traitor to your thoughts. Be sincere; act according to your thoughts and you shall surely succeed. Pray with a sincere and simple heart, and your prayers will be heard.
- Man suffers so much simply for want of devotion to God. One should therefore adopt such means as would help the thought of God to arise in the mind at the last moment of one's life. The means is practice of devotion to God.
- The magnetic needle always points to the North, and hence it is that the sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.
- There are pearls in the deep sea,but you must hazard all perils to get them. If you fail to get at them by a single dive, do not conclude that the sea is without them. Dive again and again, and you are sure to rewarded in the end. So also in the quest for the Lord, if your first attempt to see Him proves fruitless, do not lose heart.
- Seekest thou God? Then see Him in man; His Divinity is manifest more in man than in any other object. Man is the greatest manifestation of God.
- It is the power of Brahman in man that causes the mind and the intellect and the senses to perform their functions; and when that power ceases to act, these also stop work.
- A man who spends his time in discussing the good and bad qualities of others simply wastes his own time. For it is time spent neither in thinking about one's own self nor about the Supreme Self, but in fruitless thinking of other's selves.
- He is true man who is dead even in this life - that is , whose passions and propensities have been curbed to extinction as in a dead body.
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- Look at the anvil of a blacksmith - how it is hammered an beaten; yet it moves not from its place. Let men learn patience and endurance from it.
- One can ascend to the top of a house by means of a ladder or a bamboo or a staircase or a rope; so too, diverse are the ways of approaching God and each religion in the world shows one of the ways.
- If you say, " I am a sinner", eternally, you will remain a sinner to all eternity. You ought rather to repeat,'I am not bound, I am not bound. Who can bind me? I am son of God, the King of kings'.
- Do not let worldly thoughts and anxieties disturb your mind.
- Purify the spectacles of your mind, and you will see that the world is God.
