Sri Ramakrishna Quotes and Sayings

• What is needed is absorption in God – loving Him intensely. The 'Nectar Lake' is the Lake of Immortality. A man sinking in It does not die, but becomes immortal. Some people believe that by thinking of God too much the mind becomes deranged; but that is not true. God is the Lake of Nectar, the Ocean of Immortality. He is called the 'Immortal' in the Vedas. Sinking in It, one does not die, but verily
  transcends death.
   
• The man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
   
• Unless the mind becomes steady there cannot be yoga. It is the wind of worldliness that always disturbs the mind, which may be likened to a candle flame. If that flame doesn't move at all, then one is said to have attained yoga.
   
• The traits of a worldly man endowed with tamas are sleep, lust, anger, egotism, and the like.
   
• All trouble and botheration come to an end when the 'I' dies.
   
• This maya, that is to say, the ego, is like a cloud. The sun cannot be seen on account of a thin patch of cloud; when that disappears one sees the sun. If by the grace of the guru one's ego vanishes, then one sees God.
   
• If you want to realize God. First of all purify the mind. In the pure heart God takes His seat.
   
• Add your tears to your yearning. And if you can renounce everything through discrimination and dispassion, then you will be able to see God. That yearning brings about God-intoxication, whether you follow the path of knowledge or the path of devotion.
   
• Life and death are but different names for the same fact, they are the two sides of one coin.