Shri Ramakrishna

Sri Ramakrishna

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa was the master of Swami Vivekananda. He advocated the need for toleration toward all religions. He was accepted by Islam and well accepted by the Christians and many other religions

Sri Ramakrishna taught to love all and to recognize God in all humanity

In this age of scientific rationalism, Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna has shown to the world how the Lord of the universe can be realized and attained in this life time. He was the embodiment of the highest spiritual ideals.

Progressive Hinduism-harbinger of universal oneness

Ramakrishna taught that we should absorb the truths taught by all religions since God is manifest in everyone. We are all brothers and sisters..

We must not only help our own people, our own nation, but but all nations; not only all human beings but all living creatures.

.Education

The education taught in our institutions, is not proper education. The true value of education should be to make one able to function effectively in this world and be able to think properly.
Education that teaches us what and who we are is true education.
The object of education should be to attain perfection

The ideal of education should be to elevate man from his ordinary selfish state into the unselfish universal ideal of Godhood.
We should learn to see God in all.     
The highest ideal of education is to attain God-consciousness

Self-confidence, Faith and Worship

Through self-confidence one can accomplish anything. When we know who we are, we will be self confident.

Our true self is one with God in quality but in quantity it is a part, just as our body is one in quality with the cosmic body and in quantity it is infinitesimally small like a grain of sand.

The higher nature is already within us. Realise it, when we control our lower mind and passions, then we will be able to live on the spiritual plane as the master over sense-pleasures.

Realise that the power to save yourself will come when you have faith in yourself, when you know that God is within you.

Faith brings out the power of the mind. Faith is always constructive while doubt is destructive. Faith strengthens.
That faith is beneficial which is founded upon right knowledge, right reason and is supported by proper evidence.

Intense longing, unswerving devotion and wholehearted love of the soul draw out from the infinite source any particular form which the devotee wishes to see and worship; they have the power, as it were, to condense and solidify the water of the ocean of Reality into various forms.

If we worship God through ignorance, it does not do any good. And that is not the right way of worship; that is mere form.

Mystery of Death

Death does not mean destruction, but it simply means the change. Our mental or thought form is equally subject to change like our physical body.

The worship of truth alone will reveal to us the highest ideals and that is the highest kind of happiness and blissfulness.

The true self, although it may appear through different forms or different bodies, is itself formless.

Know that you are the child of Bliss. Feel it and be conscious of it. This is your ideal. Hold it and make it integral of your being.

You should first realise who you are and the rest will take care of itself.

The essence of our soul is immortal and that can never die.

Mind and its power

The mind stuff is finer matter in vibration.

The mind can be said to be the invisible side of matter and matter is the visible side of mind.

The human minds are like eddies in that one eternal current of the cosmic mind.

The power of thought is tremendous. What we think, we become after a while. The idealistic thoughts are consequently transformed into realities.

What we call genius is in reality immense power of concentration.

Nothing can be achieved without concentration. There is no power in the universe higher than the power which comes through concentration. The power acquired by its practice can control all the physical forces of nature.