Ramakrishna: Other

“Brahman and Śakti are identical. If you accept the one, you must accept the other.”

Ramakrishna

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 134
Context: Brahman and Śakti are identical. If you accept the one, you must accept the other. It is like fire and its power to burn. If you see the fire, you must recognize its power to burn also. You cannot think of fire without its power to burn, nor can you think of the power to burn without fire. You cannot conceive of the sun's rays without the sun, nor can you conceive of the sun without its rays. You cannot think of the milk without the whiteness, and again, you cannot think of the whiteness without the milk. Thus one cannot think of Brahman without Śakti, or of Śakti without Brahman. One cannot think of the Absolute without the Relative, or of the Relative without the Absolute.

“You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn't bear malice toward others.”

Ramakrishna

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 514
Context: A man can reach the roof of a house by stone stairs or a ladder or a rope-ladder or a rope or even by a bamboo pole. But he cannot reach the roof if he sets foot now on one and now on another. He should firmly follow one path. Likewise, in order to realize God a man must follow one path with all his strength. But you must regard other views as so many paths leading to God. You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn't bear malice toward others.

Feeling

“One should not think, "My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false." God can be realized by means of all paths.”

Ramakrishna

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 158
Context: One should not think, "My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false." God can be realized by means of all paths. It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite the opinions.

God , Religion , Thinking , Falseness

“A thief enters a dark room and feels the various articles therein. He lays his hands upon a table perhaps, and saying "Not this" passes on. Next he come upon some other article — a chair, perhaps — and again saying "Not this" continues his search, till, leaving article after article, he finally lays his hands on the box containing the treasure. Then he exclaims "It is here!"”

Ramakrishna

and there his search ends. Such, indeed is the search for Brahman.
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 733

Feeling , Search , Box

“The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.”

Ramakrishna

Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 110