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Ramakrishna Daily Sutras ~ January 2020

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These sutras are excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
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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~~~~~~

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.161

Wednesday 1/1/20

The Master Said:

"Is it possible to understand
God's action and His motive?
He creates, He preserves, and He destroys.
Can we ever understand why He destroys?
I say to the Divine Mother: 'O Mother,
I do not need to understand.
Please give me love for Thy Lotus Feet'.
The aim of human life is to attain bhakti.
As for other things, the Mother knows best."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.161

Thursday 2/1/20

The Master Said:

"Remember that dayA, compassion, and mAyA, attachment,
are two different things. Attachment means the feeling of
'my-ness' towards one's relatives.
Compassion is the love one feels
for all beings of the world.
It is an attitude of equality. MAyA also comes from God.
Through mAyA, God makes one serve one's relatives.
But one thing should be remembered:
mAyA keeps us in ignorance and entangles
us in the world, whereas dayA
makes our hearts pure and gradually unties our bonds."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.161

Friday 3/1/20

The Master Said:

"God cannot be realized without purity of heart.
One receives the grace of God by subduing the passions -
lust, anger, and greed. Then one sees God.
I tried many things in order to conquer lust.

"When I was ten or eleven years old and lived at KAmArpukur,
I first experienced samAdhi. As I was passing through a
paddy-field, I saw something and was overwhelmed.
There are certain characteristics of God-vision.
One sees light, feels joy, and experiences
the upsurge of a great current in one's chest,
like the bursting of a rocket."

Om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.162

Saturday 4/1/20

The Master Said:

"Anger and lust cannot be destroyed. Turn them toward God.
If you must feel desire and temptation,
then desire to realze God, feel tempted by Him.
Discriminate and turn the passions away
from worldly objects.
When the elephant is about to devour a plaintain-tree
in someone's garden, the mAhut strikes
it with his iron-tipped goad."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.162

Sunday 5/1/20

The Master Said:

"But you must remember that nothing
can be achieved except in its proper time.
Some persons must pass through many experiences
and perform many worldly duties
before they can turn their attention to God:
so they have to wait a long time.
If an abscess is lanced before it is soft,
the result is not good;
the surgeon makes the opening when
it is soft and has come to a head."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.162

Monday 6/1/20

The Master Said:

"God is realized by following the path of truth.
One should always chant His name.
Even while one is performing one's duties,
the mind should be left with God.
Suppose I have a carbuncle on my back.
I perform my duties,
but the mind is drawn to the carbuncle."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.164

Tuesday 7/1/20

The Master Said:

"Suicide is a heinous sin, undoubtedly.
A man who kills himself must return again
and again to this world and suffer
its agony. "But I don't call it suicide if a person
leaves his body after having the vision of God.
There is no harm in giving up one's body that way.
After attaining Knowledge some people give up their bodies.
After the gold image has been cast
in the clay mold, you may either preserve
the mold or break it."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.165

Wednesday 8/1/20

The Master Said:

"The camel loves to eat thorny bushes.
The more it eats the thorns,
the more the blood gushes out from its mouth.
Still it must eat thorny plants
and will never give them up.
The man of worldly nature suffers so much sorrow
and affliction, but he forgets it all in a few days
and begins his old life over again.
Suppose a man has lost his wife
or she has turned unfaithful.
Lo! He marries again."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.165

Thursday 9/1/20

The Master Said:

"Take the instance of a mother:
her son dies and she suffers bitter grief;
but after a few days she forgets all about it.
The mother, so overwhelmed with sorrow
a few days before, now attends
to her toilet and puts on her jewelry.
A father becomes bankrupt through the marriage
of his daughters, yet he goes on having
children year after year.
People are ruined by litigation,
yet they go to court all the same.
Again, the worldly man is like a snake
trying to swallow a mole.
The snake can neither swallow
the mole nor give it up"

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.165

Friday 10/1/20

The Master Said:

"A man can free himself from attachment
to 'woman and gold' if, by the grace of God,
he cultivates a spirit of strong renunciation.
What is this strong renunciation?
One who has only a mild spirit of renunciation says,
'Well, all will happen in the course of time;
let me now simply repeat the name of God'.
But a man possessed of a strong spirit
of renunciation feels restless for God,
as the mother feels for her own child.
A man of strong renunciation seeks nothing but God.
He regards the world as a deep well
and feels as if he were going to be drowned in it.
He looks on his relatives as venomous snakes;
he wants to fly away from them. And he goes away.
He never thinks, 'Let me first make some arrangement
for my family and then I shall think of God'.
He has great inward resolution."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.166

Saturday 11/1/20

The Master Said:

"It is woman that creates the need for gold.
For woman, one man becomes the slave of another,
and so loses his freedom.
Then he cannot act as he likes.

"The priests in the temple of Govindaji
at Jaipur were celibates at first,
and at that time they had fiery natures.
Once the King of Jaipur sent for them,
but they didn't obey him.
They said to the messenger, 'Ask the king to come to see us.'
After consultation, the king and his ministers
arranged marriages for them. From then on the king
didn't have to send for them. They would come to him
of themselves and say: 'Your Majesty, we have come
with our blessings. Here are the sacred flowers
of the temple. Deign to accept them'.
They came to the palace, for now they always wanted money
for one thing or another: the building of a house,
the rice-taking ceremony of their babies,
or the rituals connected with the beginning
of their children's education."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.167

Sunday 12/1/20

The Master Said:

"Once a man realizes God through intense dispassion,
he is no longer attached to woman.
Even if he must lead the life of a householder,
he is free from fear of and attachment to woman.
Suppose there are two magnets, one big
and the other small.
Which one will attract the iron?
The big one,of course.
God is the big magnet. Compared to Him,
woman is a small one.
He who has realized God does not look upon
a woman with the eye of lust;
so he is not afraid of her.
He perceives clearly that women are but so many aspects
of the Divine Mother.
He worships them all as the Mother Herself."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.168

Monday 13/1/20

The Master Said:

"How is it ever possible for one man to liberate another
from the bondage of the world? God alone,
the Creator of this world-bewitching mAyA,
can save men from mAyA.
There is no other refuge but that great teacher,
SatchidAnanda [existance-knowledge-bliss].
How is it ever possible for men who have not
realized God or received His command,
and who are not strengthened with divine strength,
to save others from the prison-house of the world?"

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.169

Tuesday 14/1/20

The Master Said:

"Each upAdhi [limitation imposed through ignorance] changes
man's nature. If he wears a fine black-bordered cloth,
you will at once find him humming
Nadhu Babu's love-songs.
Then playing-cards and a walking-stick follow.
If even a sickly man puts on high boots,
he begins to whistle and climb the stairs
like an Englishman, jumping from one step to another.
If a man but holds a pen in in his hand,
he scribbles on any paper he can get hold of -
such is the power of the pen!"

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.169

Wednesday 15/1/20

The Master Said:

"Money is also a great upAdhi. The possesion of money
makes such a difference in a man!
He is no longer the same person.
A frog had a rupee, which he kept in his hole.
One day an elephant was going over the hole,
and the frog, coming out in a fit of anger,
raised his foot, as if to kick the elephant,
and said, 'How dare you walk over my head?'
Such is the pride that money begets."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.171

Thursday 16/1/20

The Master Said:

"When the dry branch of a coconut palm drops to the ground,
it leaves only a mark on the trunk indicating that once there
was a branch at that place. In like manner, he who has attained
God keeps only a semblance of anger and lust.
He becomes like a child. A child has no attachment to the
three gunas - sattva, rajas, and tamas.
He becomes as quickly detached from a thing as he becomes
attached to it."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.173

Friday 17/1/20

The Master Said:

"Devotion to God may be said to be 'green' so long
as it doesn't grow into love of God;
but it becomes 'ripe' when it has grown into such love.
A man with 'green bhakti cannot assimilate
spiritual talk and instruction;
but one with 'ripe' bhakti can.
The image that falls on a photographic plate
covered with black film is retained.
On the other hand, thousands of images may be refelected
on a piece of bare glass, but not one of them
is retained. As the object moves away,
the glass becomes the same as it was before."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.173

Saturday 18/1/20

The Master Said:

"One cannot see God if one has the slightest trace of worldliness.
Matchsticks, if damp won't strike fire though you rub a thousand
of them against the match-box. You only waste a heap of sticks.
The mind soaked in worldliness is such a damp match-stick."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.174

Sunday 19/1/20

The Master Said:

"God doesn't appear easily in the heart of a man who feels
himself to be his own master. But God can be seen the moment
His grace descends. He is the Sun of Knowledge.
One single ray of His has illumined the world with the
light of knowledge. That is how we are able to see one
another and acquire varied knowledge.
One can see God only if He turns His light toward His own face."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.178

Monday 20/1/20

The Master Said:

"The nearer you come to God, the more you feel peace.
Peace, peace, peace - supreme peace! The nearer you come to
the Ganges, the more you feel its coolness. You will feel
completely soothed when you plunge into the river."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.178

Tuesday 21/1/20

The Master Said:

"The universe and its created beings, and the twenty-four
cosmic principles, all exist because God exists.
Nothing remains if God is eliminated.
The number increases if you put many zeros after the figure one;
but the zeros don't have any value if the one is not there."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.178

Wednesday 22/1/20

The Master Said:

"God is realized as soon as the mind
becomes free from attachment.
Whatever appears in the Pure Mind is the voice of God.
That which is Pure Mind is also Pure Buddhi; that, again, is
Pure Atman, because there is nothing pure but God.
But in order to realize God one must go beyond dharma and adharma."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.179

Thursday 23/1/20

The Master Said:

"By practice one acquires uncommon power of mind.
Then one doesn't find it difficult to subdue the sense-organs
and to bring anger, lust and the like under control.
Such a man behaves like a tortoise, which, once it has tucked
in its limbs, never puts them out.
You cannot make the tortoise put its limbs out again,
though you chop it to pieces with an axe."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.180

Friday 24/1/20

The Master Said:

"One ultimately discovers God by trying to know who this 'I' is.
Is this 'I' the flesh, the bones, the blood or the marrow?
Is it the mind or the buddhi? Analysing thus, you realize that
you are none of these. This is called the process of 'Neti, neti',
'Not this, not this'.
One can neither comprehend nor touch the Atman.
It is without qualities or attributes."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.181

Saturday 25/1/20

The Master Said:

"It is God alone who has become all this. But in certain places -
for instance, in a holy man - there is a greater manifestation than
in others. You may say, there are wicked men also. That is true,
even as there are tigers and lions; but one need not hug
the 'tiger God'. One should keep away from him and salute him
from a distance. Take water, for instance. Some water may be drunk,
some may be used for worship, some for bathing, and some for
washing dishes."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.181

Sunday 26/1/20

The Master Said:

"For the Kaliyuga the path of bhakti is especially good.
One can realize God through bhakti too. As long as one is
conscious of the body, one is also conscious of objects.
Form, taste, smell, sound, and touch - these are the objects.
It is extremely difficult to get rid of the consciousness
of objects. And one cannot realize 'I am He' as long as one
is aware of objects."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.181

Monday 27/1/20

The Master Said:

"All the sins of the body fly away if one chants the name of
God and sings his glories. The birds of sin dwell in the tree
of the body. Singing the name of God is like clapping your hands.
As, at the clap of the hands, the birds in the tree fly away,
so do our sins disappear at the chanting of God's name and glories."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.183

Tuesday 28/1/20

The Master Said:

"God cannot remain unmoved if you have rAga-bhakti,
that is, love of God, with passionate attachment to Him.
Do you know how fond God is of His devotee's love?
It is like the cow's fondness for fodder mixed with oil-cake.
The cow gobbles it down greedily."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.183

Wednesday 29/1/20

The Master Said:

"RAga-bhakti is pure love of God, a love that seeks God alone
and not any worldly end. PrahlAda had it. Suppose you go to a
wealthy man every day, but you seek no favour of him;
you simply love to see him. If he wants to show you favour,
you say: 'No, sir, I don't need anything. I came just to see you.'
Such is love of God for its own sake.
You simply love God and don't want anything from Him in return."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.183

Thursday 30/1/20

The Master Said:

"The world is the field of action. Through action one acquires
knowledge. The guru instructs the disciple to perform certain works
and refrain from others. Again, he advises the pupil to perform
action without desiring the result. The impurity of the mind is
destroyed through the performance of duty."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.183

Friday 31/1/20

The Master Said:

"Why doesn't God free us from the world?
Ah, He will free us when the disease is cured.
He will liberate us from the world when we are
through with the enjoyment of 'woman and gold'.
Once a man registers his name in the hospital,
he cannot run away. The doctor will not let him go
away unless his illness is cured."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

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