The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.

The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.

Ramakrishna

The world is not impermanent if one lives there after knowing God.

The world is not impermanent if one lives there after knowing God.

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

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

Respect is heaven, respect is liberation.

Respect is heaven, respect is liberation.

He who is called Krishna is also Siva and the Primal Sakti...He again, who is called Jesus and Allah. Truth is one.

He who is called Krishna is also Siva and the Primal Sakti...He again, who is called Jesus and Allah. Truth is one.

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.

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.

At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it.

At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it.

God has created the world in play, as it were.

God has created the world in play, as it were.

As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee's feet.

As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee's feet.

Live like a mud-fish: its skin is bright and shiny even though it lives in mud.

Live like a mud-fish: its skin is bright and shiny even though it lives in mud.

The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.

The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.

If one has faith, one has everything.

If one has faith, one has everything.

Honour both spirit and form, the sentiment within as well as the symbol without.

Honour both spirit and form, the sentiment within as well as the symbol without.

Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.

Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.

Men bound hand and foot in the endless chain of cause & effect cannot free each other.

Men bound hand and foot in the endless chain of cause & effect cannot free each other.

Infinite are the paths and infinite the opinions.

Infinite are the paths and infinite the opinions.

I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama .

I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama .

The goal of life is not the earning of money, but the service of God.

The goal of life is not the earning of money, but the service of God.