Ramakrishna Daily Sutras ~ December 2019
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100 Quotes Sorted by Topic
27 Quotes on BHAKTI - DEVOTION - LOVE
20 Quotes on the REALIZATION OF BRAHMAN - GOD
19 Quotes on KALI, THE DIVINE MOTHER - MAHASHAKTI
7 Quotes on KNOWLEDGE
6 Quotes on WORK
6 Quotes on SIN
6 Quotes on TRUTH
5 Quotes on PHYSICIANS - MEDICINE
4 Quotes on MAyA (attachment) & DaYA (compassion)
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.129
Sunday 1/12/19
The Master Said:
"GangAmAyi became very fond of me in VrindAvan.
She was an old woman who lived all alone in a hut
near the Nidhuvan. Referring to my spiritual condition
and ecstasy, she said, 'He is the very embodiment of RAdhA.'
She addressed me as 'DulAli'. When with her, I used to forget
my food and drink, my bath, and all thought of going home.
On some days Hriday used to bring food from home and feed me.
GangAmAyi also would serve me with food prepared by her own hands.
GangAmAyi used to experience trances. At such times a great crowd
would come to see her. One day, in a state of ecstasy,
she climbed on Hriday's shoulders."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.131
Monday 2/12/19
The Master Said:
"Well, can you explain this state of my mind?
Once I was going from BurdwAn to KAmArpukur in a bullock-cart,
when a great storm arose. Some people gathered near the cart.
My companions said they were robbers. So I began to repeat
the names of God, calling sometimes on KAli,
sometimes on RAma, sometimes on HanumAn.
What do you think of that?"
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.131
Tuesday 3/12/19
The Master Said:
"MAyA is nothing but 'woman and gold'.
A man living in its midst gradually loses his spiritual
alertness. He thinks all is well with him.
The scavenger carries a tub of night-soil on his head,
and in course of time loses his repulsion to it.
One gradually acquires love of God through
the practice of chanting God's name and glories."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.133
Wednesday 4/12/19
The Master Said:
"The jnAni, sticking to the path of knowledge,
always reasons about the Reality, saying,
'Not this, not this'. Brahman is neither 'this' nor 'that';
It is neither the universe nor its living beings.
Reasoning in this way, the mind becomes steady.
Then it disappears and the aspirant goes into samAdhi.
This is the knowledge of Brahman.
It is the unwavering conviction of the jnAni that
Brahman alone is real and the world illusory."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.133
Thursday 5/12/19
The Master Said:
"The yogi seeks to realize the ParamAtman, the Supreme Soul.
His ideal is the union of the embodied soul and the Supreme Soul.
He withdraws his mind from sense-objects and tries to concentrate
it on the ParamAtman. Therefore, during the first stage of his
spiritual discipline, he retires into solitude and with
undivided attention practises meditation in a fixed posture."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.134
Friday 6/12/19
The Master Said:
"The jnAnis, who adhere to the non-dualistic philosophy of
VedAnta, say that the acts of creation, preservation and
destruction, the universe itself and all its living beings,
are the manifestation of Shakti, the Divine Power.
If you reason it out, you will realize that all these
are as illusory as a dream. Brahman alone is the Reality,
and all else is unreal. Even this very Shakti is unsubstantial,
like a dream."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.135
Saturday 7/12/19
The Master Said:
"Is kAli, my Divine Mother, of a black complexion?
She appears black because She is viewed from a distance;
but when intimately known She is no longer so.
The sky appears blue at a distance, but look at it
close by and you will find that it has no colour.
The water of the ocean looks blue at a distance,
but when you go near and take it in your hand,
you find that it is colourless."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.136
Sunday 8/12/19
The Master Said:
"The Divine Mother wants to continue playing with Her
created beings. In a game of hide-and-seek the running
about soon stops if in the beginning all the players
touch the 'granny'. If all touch her, then how can the game
go on? That displeases Her.
Her pleasure is in continuing the game."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.137
Monday 9/12/19
The Master Said:
"It is as if the Divine Mother said to the human mind
in confidence, with a sign from Her eye,
'Go and enjoy the world'. How can one blame the mind?
The mind can disentangle itself from worldliness if,
through Her grace, She makes it turn toward Herself.
Only then does it become devoted to the Lotus Feet
of the Divine Mother."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.137
Tuesday 10/12/19
The Master Said: [with a laugh]
"Of course you can realize God without complete renunciation !
Why should you renounce everything? You are all right
as you are, following the middle path.
[note: Thakur was speaking to a BrAmho devotee]
- like molasses partly solid and partly liquid.
Do you know the game of nax? Having scored the maximum
number of points, I am out of the game. I can't enjoy it.
But you are very clever. Some of you have scored ten points,
some six, and some five. You have scored just the right
number, so you are not out of the game like me.
The game can go on. Why, that's fine !"
This comment caused much mirth among the devotees
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.137
Wednesday 11/12/19
The Master Said:
"The mind will take the colour you dye it with.
It is like white clothes just returned from the laundry.
If you dip them in red dye, they will be red.
If you dip them in blue or green, they will be blue or green.
They will take only the colour you dip them in,
whatever it may be. Haven't you noticed that,
if you read a little English, you at once begin to utter
English words: "foot fut it mit"? Then you put on boots
and whistle a tune, and so on.
It all goes together. Or, if a scholar studies Sanscrit,
he will at once rattle off Sanscrit verses.
If you are in bad company, then you will talk and think
like your companions. On the other hand, when you are
in the company of devotees, you will think and talk only of God."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.148
Thursday 12/12/19
The Master Said:
"If one analyses oneself, one doesn't find any such thing as 'I'.
Take an onion, for instance. First of all you peel off the red
outer skin; then you find thick white skins. Peel these
off one after the other, and you won't find anything inside.
In that state a man no longer finds the existence of his ego.
And who is there left to seek it?"
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.148
Friday 13/12/19
The Master Said:
"As long as his self-analysis is not complete, man argues with
much ado. But he becomes silent when he completes it.
When the empty pitcher has been filled with water,
when the water inside the pitcher becomes one with the water
of the lake outside, no more sound is heard."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.149
Saturday 14/12/19
The Master Said:
"A devotee thinks of God as he sees Him.
In reality there is no confusion about God.
God explains all this to the devotee
if the devotee only realises Him somehow."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.149
Sunday 15/12/19
The Master Said:
"One who constantly thinks of God can know His real nature;
he alone knows that God reveals Himself to seekers
in various forms and aspects. God has attributes;
then again He has none. Only the man who lives
under the tree knows that the chameleon can appear
in various colours, and he knows further,
that the animal at times has no colour at all.
It is the others who suffer the agony of futile argument."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.150
Monday 16/12/19
The Master Said:
"Therefore I say that in the light of VedAntic reasoning
Brahman has no attributes. The real nature of Brahman
cannot be described. But so long as your individuality
is real, the world is also real, and equally real are
the different forms of God and the feeling that God is a Person."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.150
Tuesday 17/12/19
The Master Said:
"If a jug of water is enough to remove my thirst,
why should I measure the quantity of water in the lake?
I become drunk on even a half a bottle of wine -
what is the use of calculating the quantity of liquor
in the tavern? What need is there of knowing the Infinite?"
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.151
Wednesday 18/12/19
The Master Said:
"Once a man said to me, 'Sir, can you teach me quickly
the thing you call samAdhi?
After a man has attained samAdhi all his actions drop away.
All devotional activities, such as worship, japa,
and the like, as well as all worldly duties,
cease to exist for such a person."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.152
Thursday 19/12/19
The Master Said:
"At the beginning of religious life a man
makes much ado about work, but as his mind
dives deeper into God, he becomes less active.
Last of all comes the renunciation of work,
followed by samAdhi."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.155
Friday 20/12/19
The Master Said:
"Householders are like silk-worms. They can come out
of the cocoon of their worldly life if they wish.
But they can't bear to; for they themselves have
built the cocoon with great love and care.
So they die there. Or they are like the fish in a trap
They can come out of it by the way they entered,
but they sport inside the trap with other fish
and hear the sweet sound of the murmuring water
and forget everything else. They don't even make
an effort to free themselves from the trap.
The lisping of children is the murmur of the water,
and the other fish are relatives and friends.
Only one or two make good their escape by running away.
They are the liberated souls."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.155
Saturday 21/12/19
The Master Said:
"Man may be likened to grain. He has fallen between
the millstones and is about to be crushed.
Only the few grains that stay near the peg escape.
Therefore men should take refuge at the peg,
that is to say, in God. Call on Him. Sing His name.
Then you will be free. Otherwise you will be crushed
by the King of Death."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.156
Sunday 22/12/19
The Master Said:
"A householder has his duties to discharge,
his debts to pay: his debt to the gods,
his debt to his ancestors, his debt to the rishis,
and his debt to his wife and children.
If a wife is chaste, then her husband should support her;
he should also bring up their children until they are of age.
Only a monk must not save; the bird and the monk do not provide
for the morrow. But even a bird provides when it has young.
It brings food in its bill for the chicks."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.157
Monday 23/12/19
The Master Said:
"People think it is they who are great.
The water from the roof flows through
a spout that is shaped like a lion's head.
It looks as if the lion were bringing
the water out through its mouth.
But look at the source of the water !
A cloud gathers in the sky and rain falls
on the roof; then the water flows through
the pipe and at last comes out through the spout."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.157
Tuesday 24/12/19
The Master Said:
"After the first storm of divine passion is quelled,
one gradually understands that God alone is the Highest Good,
the Eternal Substance, and that all else is transitory.
One cannot grasp this without tapasyA and the company of holy men."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.157
Wednesday 25/12/19
The Master Said:
"There is only one way to remove caste distinctions
and that is by love of God.
Through this divine love the untouchable becomes pure,
the pariah no longer remains a pariah.
Chaitanya embraced all, including the pariahs."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.158
Thursday 26/12/19
The Master Said:
"I have heard that man can acquire superhuman powers
through Theosophy and perform miracles.
I saw a man who had brought a ghost under control.
The ghost used to procure various things for his master.
What shall I do with superhuman powers?
Can one realize God through them?
If God is not realized then everything becomes false."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.158
Friday 27/12/19
The Master Said:
"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."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.158
Saturday 28/12/19
The Master Said:
"Not a leaf moves except by the will of God.
Where is man's free will?
All are under the will of God. Therefore I say:
'O Mother, I am the machine and Thou art the Operator;
I am the chariot and Thou art the Driver.
I move as Thou movest me; I do as Thou makest me do'."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.125
Sunday 29/12/19
The Master Said:
"There is no use in merely making a noise if you want
to establish the Deity in the shrine of your heart,
if you want to realize God. First of all purify the mind.
In the pure heart God takes His seat. One cannot bring
the holy image into the temple if the droppings of bats
are all around. The eleven bats are our eleven organs:
five of action, five of perception, and the mind."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.125
Monday 30/12/19
The Master Said:
"First of all invoke the Deity, and then give lectures
to your heart's content. First of all dive deep.
Plunge to the bottom and gather up the gems.
Then you may do other things. But nobody wants to plunge.
People are without spiritual discipline and prayer,
without renunciation and dispassion.
They learn a few words and immediately start to deliver lectures.
It is difficult to teach others. Only if a man gets a command
from God, after realizing Him, is he entitled to teach."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.128
Tuesday 31/12/19
The Master Said:
"There are two classes of yogis: the vahudakas and the kutichakas.
The vahudakas roam about visiting holy places and have not yet
found peace of mind. But the kutichakas, having visited all
the sacred places, have quieted their minds.
Feeling serene and peaceful, they settle down in one
place and no longer move about. In that one place they are happy;
they don't feel the need of going to any sacred place.
If one of them ever visits a place of pilgrimage,
it is only for the purposes of new inspiration."
om tat sat
~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~
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