Quotes by Ramakrishna

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.

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.

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

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.

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

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

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