Inspirational Quotations by Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
- As long as I live, so long do I learn
- The winds of grace are blowing all the time.
You have only to raise your sail.
- If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the
Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and
worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
- Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red,
that of another blue, and that of the third black;
but all contain the same cotton within. So it is with man;
one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy ,
and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.
- More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which
He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him,
through them you will realise Him.
- Rain-water never stands on high ground,
but runs down to the lowest level.
So also the mercy of God remains in the hearts of the lowly,
but drains off from those of the vain and the proud.
- As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and
the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one
of the God who is formless and eternal.
- I see God walking in every human form. When I meet different people, I say to myself, "God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous."