Quotes by Ramakrishna

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

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.

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

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

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

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

When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

God is in all men, but all men are not in God that is why we suffer.

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.

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