Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

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Love and Love alone....

 

Great Sayings -- Words of Sri Ramakrishna, Sarada Devi and Swami

Vivekananda. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa taught no creed or dogma,

he taught only Truth, which he also called God. The highest thing

man can achieve in life, is according to him, attainment of a moral

and spiritual level where he can never deviate from what he knows to

be Truth. This attainment is also marked by a feeling of oneness

with every being on earth. At this point, man's centre of existence

is 'everywhere and circumference nowhere'. This is what is called

God-realization or self-realization; it is also known as liberation

or salvation.

 

Following his steps, both Sri Sri Sarada Devi and Swami

Vivekananda preached the same ideal.

 

I reproduce a few quotes in the days to come from the trio for the

benefit of those who are not able to go to the larger sources.

 

These 'Great Sayings' was first published in 1989 and the book has

undergone several reprints since then, which attests to its

popularity.

 

Love and Love alone....

 

P. Gopi Krishna

 

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa:

1.

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.

 

2.

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.

 

3.

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 be 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.