BEST COLLECTION OF RAMAKRISHNA PARAMAHANSA ( PART -5) 442. Q. Suppose a wife tells her husband who is given to religious practices, If you do not look after me properly, I will commit suicide. What should one do in that case ? A. One should give up such a wife - the wife that stands in the way to God-realisation. Let her commit suicide or let her not! The wife who thus puts obstacles in ones path to God is an embodiment of Avidya (nescience) 443. Father and mother are of prime importance to man. Unless they are pleased, no devotional practice will be of any avail. No pious work can succeed unless the debt to the parents is paid off. 445. The parents deserve the highest respect in this world. As long as they live, they should be served to the best of one s capacity 447. When mind and speech unite in earnestly asking for a thing, that prayer is answered 450. To approach a mighty monarch a man must ingratiate himself with the officials who keep the gate and guard the throne. So, to reach the Almighty Lord and obtain His grace, one must practise much devotion, serve many devotees, and keep for long the company of the wise. 454. If you cannot settle whether God has form or not, then pray in this way: M O Lord, I cannot understand whether Thou art with form or without it. Whatever mayst Thou be, have mercy on me. Do reveal Thyself unto me. 484. By mere disputation you will never succeed in convincing another of his error. When the grace of God descends on him, every man will understand his own mistakes 512. Why talk of sin and hell-fire all the days of your life ? Chant the name of God. Do say but once, I have, O Lord, done things that 1 ought not to have done, and I have left undone things that I ought to have done. O Lord, forgive me! Saying this, have faith in Him, and you will be purged of all sins. 519. There is no path safer and smoother than that of Ba-kalama (power of attorney). Ba-kalama means here resigning oneself to the will of the Almighty and having no feeling that anything is ones own 522. Blessed Radha was once called to prove her chastity. She was subjected to the ordeal of fetching water in a jar with a thousand holes. She succeeded in doing so without even a drop of water leaking out, and everyone applauded her, declaring that such a chaste woman never was and never will be. At this Radha exclaimed, Why do you heap praise on me ? Say rather, Glory to Krishna ! Glory to Him alone ! I am only a handmaid of His. 529. As a chaste woman wholly devoted to her husband is united with him for ever even after death, so the man who is solely devoted to his own Chosen Deity certainly obtains union with God, 530. Truthfulness is the Tapasya (austerity) of this age of Kali. 531. Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth. 573. Two persons, it is said, together began invoking the Goddess Kali by the terrible rite called Savasadhana.1 One invoker was frightened to insanity by the terrible visions appearing in the earlier portion of the night, while the other was favoured with the vision of the Divine Mother at the end of the night. The latter said to the Goddess, Mother, why did the other man become mad? The Deity answered, You, too, O child, did become mad many times in your previous births, and now at last you have seen Me. 585. Even Sri Krishna went through tremendous spiritual practises relating to the worship of the Radha-yantra. The Yantra is the Brahmayoni (Creative Power of Brahman), and the Sadhana consisted of its worship and meditation. From this Brahmayoni there spring myriads of worlds 589. Spiritual practices (Sadhanas) are absolutely necessary for Self-knowledge, but if there is perfect faith, then a little practice is enough 599. The easiest way of concentrating the mind is to fix it on the flame of a candle 601. During meditation you should imagine as if you are tying your mind to the lotus feet of the Deity with a silk thread, so that it may not wander away from there 617. He who yearns after God cannot bestow any thought on such trifles as food and drink . 619. Let your heart pant for Him as a miser longs for gold. 621. Do you know what kind of Love is required for gaining the Lord ? just as a dog with a bruised head runs restlesssly, so must one become distressed for His sake.
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