The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna - 10

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• Do you know what one feels in meditation? The mind becomes

like a continuous flow of oil - it thinks of one object only, and

that is God. It is not aware of anything else.

 

• That man is a true man whose mind dwells in God. He alone is

a man whose spiritual consciousness has been awakened and who is

firmly convinced that God alone is real and all else is illusory.

 

• If you see anywhere a special manifestation of God's Power,

you may know that God has incarnated Himself there.

 

• God has become all that you see.

 

• So long as 'I-consciousness' exists, a man cannot go beyond

the Relative.

 

• There are signs of Perfect Knowledge. One is that reasoning

comes to an end.

 

• It is God who dwells within as the Pure Mind and Pure

Intelligence.

 

• It is God who has kept this 'ego' in us. All this is His

play, His lila.

 

• If you realize Atman, you will see the truth of all I have

said. All doubts disappear after the vision of God.

 

• Brahman alone is real and the world unreal. Nothing

whatsoever remains if you analyse.

 

• It is not easy to get rid of illusion. It lingers even after

the attainment of Knowledge.

 

• 'It is nothing, it is nothing'. This is the process of 'Neti,

Neti'.

 

• The jnanis say that an aspirant must, first of all, purify

his heart. First he needs spiritual exercises; then he will attain

Knowledge.

 

• God can also be realized through the path of devotion. For

such a devotee, the sense-organs come under control of themselves.

 

• One realizes God by following the path of discrimination and

knowledge. But this is an extremely difficult path.

 

• One should trust in the words of holy men and great souls,

those who have realized God.

 

• Unless a man is guileless, he cannot easily have a faith in

God. God is far, far away from the mind steeped in worldliness.

 

• For seekers of God, the constant company of holy men is

necessary.

 

• Two things are necessary for the realization of God: faith

and self surrender.

 

• Whatever path you may follow, you must pray to God with a

restless heart.

 

• Whatever may be a householder's profession, it is necessary

for him to live in the company of holy men now and then. If a man

loves God, he will himself seek the company of holy men.

 

• Go beyond knowledge and ignorance; only then can you realize

God. To know many things is ignorance. Pride of scholarship is also

ignorance.

 

• The unwavering conviction that God alone dwells in all beings

is jnana, knowledge. To know Him intimately is vijnana, a richer

knowledge.

 

• God is beyond both knowledge and ignorance.

 

• One cannot attain Knowledge unless one is free from egotism.

 

• You have been born in this world as a human being to worship

God; therefore try to acquire love for His Lotus Feet.

 

• Blessed is the man who retains his love for the Lotus Feet of

God even though he eats pork.

 

• It is good to look on God as the Master and oneself as His

servant. As long as a man feels the body to be real, as long as he is

conscious of 'I' and 'you', it is good to keep the relationship of

master and servant.

 

• There is an ocean of difference between absent-mindedness due

to the contemplation of God and absent-mindedness due to

preoccupation with worldly thoughts.

 

• People have different tastes. Besides, all have not the same

fitness for spiritual life.

 

• Samadhi is the result of the union of the mind with God.