God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
Quotations
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
God laughs when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each other, ‘This side is mine and that side is yours.’ He laughs and says to Himself, ‘The whole universe belongs to me, but they say they own this portion or that portion.’
God can be realised through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
