Ramakrishna Quotes

Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.

Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones

When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.

Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

For many people, the first indication of a spiritual awakening is that they suddenly become aware of their thoughts. They become a witness to their thoughts, so to speak. They are not completely identified with their mind anymore and so they begin to sense that there is a depth to them that they had never known before.

When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the world.

To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.

The best way to cleanse the heart and prepare for the stilling of the mind is to lead a normal, worldly life. Living in the midst of your day-to-day duties, responsibilities, likes, dislikes, etc., will help you. All these become the very means for the purification of your heart.

So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.

I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.

The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always.

The more we are happy in Krishna Consciousness, the more we become purified.

Meditation has only one meaning, and that is going beyond the mind and becoming a witness. In your witnessing is the miracle - the whole mystery of life

Awakening to who we really are is at the heart of yoga. . . .Yoga offers a path to this underlying field of being, which is the source of creativity, fulfillment, and abundance.

Meditation is the eye that sees the Truth, the heart that feels the Truth and the soul that realises the Truth.

Either by silencing the mind or by opening the heart, today's man can become tomorrow's God, tomorrow's Divinity. And embodied Divinity soon becomes revealed Immortality.

Meditation is nothing but putting the mind aside, putting the mind out of the way, and bringing a witnessing which is always there but hidden underneath the mind. This witnessing will reach to your center, and once you have become enlightened, then there is no problem. Then bring the mind in tune with you

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment.

Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.