Saying 5; variant translation: 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 realize Him.
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)
“I call him Rama. You can call him by any other name but have faith in him, surrender all worldly desires and passions to his will and without effort, become disciplined and principled.”
Quoted in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 5
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Tulsidas 29
Hindu poet-saint 1532–1623Related quotes
“If you can not answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.”
En anéantissant les désirs, on anéantit l'âme, & tout homme sans passion n'a en lui ni principe d'action, ni motif pour se mouvoir.
A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties & His Education, Vol. I (1773)
“Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him.”
Source: The Case of the Left-Handed Lady
Source: Something More, A Consideration of the Vast, Undeveloped Resources of Life (1920), p. 15
On Allah (God), as quoted in Doctrine of Sufis (1977) by Abû Bakr al- Kalâbâdî, as translated by A. J. Arberry, Ch. 5 p. 16