Quotes by Ramakrishna

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

Bondage is of the mind freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

God is in all men, but all men are not in God that is why we suffer.

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.