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“It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal. So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.”

Saying 13
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)

“With the divine Knowledge of Advaita (non-duality) in you, do whatever you wish; for then no evil can ever come out of you.”

Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 966

“As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger.”

Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 283

“It is one and the same Avatara that, having plunged into the ocean of life, rises up in one place and is known as Krishna, and diving again rises in another place and is known as Christ.”

Saying 62
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)

“He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realise God in this very life”

Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 2

“Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.”

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 472

“One does not care for the cage when the bird has flown away from it. and when the bird of life flies away, no one cares for the body left behind.”

Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 396

“To drink pure water from a shallow pond one should gently take the water from the surface without disturbing the pond in the least. If it is disturbed, the sediments rise up and make the whole water muddy. 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.”

Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 580

“Those who wish to attain God and progress in religious devotion, should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth. Otherwise they can never attain perfection.”

As quoted in Hindu Psychology : Its Meaning for the West (1946) by Swami Akhilananda, p. 204

“Iron, after it is converted into gold by the touch of philosopher's stone, may be kept under the ground or thrown into a rubbish heap; it will always remain gold and will not return to its former condition. Similar is the state of the man whose soul has touched, even once, the feet of the Almighty Lord. Whether he dwells in the bustle of the world, or in the solitude of the forest, nothing ever contaminates him.”

As quoted in Hindu Psychology : Its Meaning for the West (1946) by Swami Akhilananda, p. 204

“When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life. Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life; but it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.”

Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 949

“Once someone gave me a book of the Christians. I asked him to read it to me. It talked about nothing but sin. Sin is the only thing one hears at your Brahmo Samaj too… He who says day and night, ‘I am a sinner, I am a sinner’, verily becomes a sinner… Why should one only talk about sin and hell, and such things?”

October 27, 1882, to Keshub Chunder Sen. The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, Volume 1, Madras, 1985, p. 138. Quoted from Goel, S. R. (2016). History of Hindu-Christian encounters Ch.13
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942)

“Do yourself what you wish others to do.”

Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 1021

“If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.”

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 19

“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.”

Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 325

“It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.”

Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 548

“If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.”

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 559

“Whether you accept Rādhā and Krishna, or not, please do accept their attraction for each other. Try to create that same yearning in your heart for God. Yearning is all you need in order to realize Him.”

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 140

“Can you weep for Him with intense longing of heart? Men shed a jugful of tears for the sake of their children, for their wives, or for money. But who weeps for God? So long as the child remains engrossed with its toys, the mother looks after her cooking and other household duties. But when the child no longer relishes the toys, it throws them aside and yells for its mother. Then the mother takes the rice-pot down from the hearth, runs in haste, and takes the child in her arms.”

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 149

“If one has faith one has everything.”

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 849