Diary Quotes

The Master and the Disciple

Sri Ramakrishna 

• Evil exists in God as poison in a serpent, What is poison to us is no poison to the Serpent. The serpent does not die of its own poison. Secretion is a sign on its health.
• Are not rites and ceremonies are unnecessary appendages? "Yes" says Ramakrishna, "but without the husk, paddy wont grow in the field, You will eat rice, but will sow paddy"
• All religious works, discussions, discourses and sermons will automatically stop when realization begins. 
• The bees buzzes round a flower before it begins to drink the honey. 
• Make yourself a jaggery and the ants will come to you of their own accord. 
• Make yourself a magnet, the iron fillings will fly and cling to you. 
• Make yourself a light, in darkness and the moths will rush and fall at your feet
• Put yourself in the hands of the divine Mother, and She will do everything for you. 
• She will give you viveka (discrimination), vairagya (renunciation), jnana (knowledge). 
• You have only to cry for her sincerely and passionately, and she is bound to come.

"One day in June or July, when I was six or seven years old, I was walking along a narrow path separating the paddy fields, eating some of the puffed rice which I was carrying in a basket. Looking up at the sky, I saw a beautiful sombre thunder-cloud spreading rapidly, enveloping the whole sky. A flight of snow-white cranes flew overhead in front of it. It presented such a beautiful contrast that my mind wandered to far off regions. Lost to outward sense, I fell down and the puffed rice was scattered in all directions. Some people found me and in the light and carried me home in their arms. This was the first time I completely lost consciousness in ecstasy." - Sri Ramakrishna

Swami Vivekananda

• The whole religion of the Hindhu is centred in realisation. Man is to become divine when realizing the divine. Idols or temples or churches or books are only the supports, the helps of his spiritual childhood. 
• Separation of Buddhism from Bhramanism was the centre of the downfall of India. By this separation both were loosers. Buddhism was deprived in faith in God, to which every human being clings fondly, and Brahmanism was deprived of wonderful sympathy and charity for everybody which Buddhism brought to the masses.
• The Christian is not to become a Hindhu or Buddhist, nor a Hindhu must assimilate the spirit of the others and yet preserve its individuality and grow according to its own law of growth. 
• "I have a message to give, I have no time to be sweet to the world, and every attempt at sweetness makes me a hypocrite"
• I will die a thousand deaths rather than bad a jelly-fish existence and yield to every requirement of this foolish world - no matter whether it be my own country or a foreign country. 

Further reading materials

1. The Master as I saw him, Sister Nivedhita
2. Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga & Jnana Yoga
3. The Life and Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna, Max muller

05.06.2025

Kulim