The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna - 9

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• God incarnates Himself as man from time to time in order to

teach people devotion and divine love.

 

• If you see a man endowed with ecstatic love, overflowing with

prema, mad after God, intoxicated with His love, then know for

certain that God has incarnated Himself through that man.

 

• The mind and intellect become pure the moment they are free

from attachment to 'woman' (lust) and 'gold' (greed).

 

• God is known by the pure mind.

 

• Since a newspaper contains worldly matters - gossip and

scandal - he (Sri Ramakrishna) regarded it as unholy.

 

• Without awakening one's own inner consciousness, one cannot

realize the All-pervading Consciousness. The inner consciousness must

be awakened through God's grace.

 

• Kali is none other than Brahman. That which is called Brahman

is really Kali. She is the Primal Energy. When that Energy remains

inactive, I call It Brahman, and when it creates, preserves, or

destroys, I call It Sakti or Kali. What you call Brahman I call Kali.

 

• As long as a man argues about God, he has not realized Him.

The nearer you approach God, the less you reason and argue.

 

• One cannot realize God without renunciation.

 

• The Gita is the essence of the scriptures.

 

• He who from the depth of his soul seeks to know God will

certainly realize Him. He must. He alone who is restless for God and

seeks nothing but Him will certainly realize Him.

 

• Why God incarnates Himself as a man? It is because through a

human body, one can hear His words.

 

• An incarnation of God is for the sake of the bhaktas and not

of the jnanis.

 

• There are five kinds of samadhi. In these samadhis, one feels

the movement of the spiritual current to be like that of an ant, a

fish, a monkey, a bird, or a serpent.

 

• Sometimes, the spiritual current rises through the spine,

crawling like an ant.

 

• A man's spiritual consciousness is not awakened unless his

Kundalini is aroused.

 

• One's spiritual consciousness is not awakened by the mere

reading of books. One should also pray to God. The Kundalini is

aroused if the aspirant feels restless for God.

 

• It is said in the Gita that a man is reborn with those

tendencies which are in his mind at the time of his death.

 

• Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being

only to attain divine love.

 

• Man should possess dignity and alertness. Only he whose

spiritual consciousness is awakened possesses this dignity and

alertness and can be called a man. Futile is human birth without the

awakening of spiritual consciousness.