Top 150 Ramakrishna Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.”

— Ramakrishna

102. “Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures. After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.”

— Ramakrishna

103. “If you keep your heart immersed always in the ocean of divine love, your heart is sure to remain ever full to overflowing with the waters of divine love.”

— Ramakrishna

104. “Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.”

— Ramakrishna

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

— Ramakrishna

106. “With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions. The Vaishnavas will realize God, and so will the Saktas, the Vedantists, and the Brahmos. The Mussalmans and Christians will realize Him too. All will certainly realize God if they are earnest and sincere.”

— Ramakrishna

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

— Ramakrishna

108. “That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.”

— Ramakrishna

109. “Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.”

— Ramakrishna

110. “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.”

— Ramakrishna

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

— Ramakrishna

112. “Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.”

— Ramakrishna

113. “How dare you talk of helping the world? God alone can do that. First you must be made free from all sense of self; then the Divine Mother will give you a task to do.”

— Ramakrishna

114. “Why should you renounce everything? You are all right as you are, following the middle...”

— Ramakrishna

115. “Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.”

— Ramakrishna

116. “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.”

— Ramakrishna

117. “Let’s not go into the past.”

— Ramakrishna

118. “There is no hope for a worldly man if he is not sincerely devoted to God.”

— Ramakrishna

119. “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.”

— Ramakrishna

120. “Who may be called a paramahamsa? He who, like a swan, can take the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water. He who, like an ant, can take the sugar from a mixture of sugar and sand, leaving aside the sand.”

— Ramakrishna

121. “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 are the opinions.”

— Ramakrishna

122. “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.”

— Ramakrishna

123. “Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.”

— Ramakrishna

124. “Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.”

— Ramakrishna

125. “Right discrimination is of two kinds analytical and synthetical. The first leads one from the phenomena to the Absolute Brahman, while by the second one knows how the Absolute Brahman appears as the universe.”

— Ramakrishna

126. “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.”

— Ramakrishna

127. “You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world? First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.”

— Ramakrishna

128. “The depth of the heart, the retired corner, and the forest are the three places for meditation.”

— Ramakrishna

129. “Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.”

— Ramakrishna

130. “Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.”

— Ramakrishna

131. “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.”

— Ramakrishna

132. “You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings.”

— Ramakrishna

133. “One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.”

— Ramakrishna

134. “I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama .”

— Ramakrishna

135. “If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.”

— Ramakrishna

136. “It is necessary to pray to Him, with a longing Heart.”

— Ramakrishna

137. “The winds of God’s grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.”

— Ramakrishna

138. “The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?”

— Ramakrishna

139. “It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false.”

— Ramakrishna

140. “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.”

— Ramakrishna

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

— Ramakrishna

142. “How long do small girls play with their dolls? As long as they are not married and do not live with their husbands. After marriage they put the dolls away in a box. What further need is there of worshipping the image after the vision of God?”

— Ramakrishna

143. “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.”

— Ramakrishna

144. “The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.”

— Ramakrishna

145. “Now... We are going in a loop.”

— Ramakrishna

146. “As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body.”

— Ramakrishna

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

— Ramakrishna

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

— Ramakrishna

149. “Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.”

— Ramakrishna

150. “What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.”

— Ramakrishna