Best quotes by Ramakrishna on God

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  • God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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  • If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
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  • God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
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  • Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
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  • Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
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  • Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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  • Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
    - Ramakrishna