Durga Puja Celebrations
Being held for the first time in the 96 year old history of Ramakrishna Mission, New Delhi.
We solicit your kind presence and whole-hearted cooperation to make the Durga Puja a grand success.
Why does the God-lover find such ecstatic delight in addressing the Deity as Mother? Because the child is more free with the mother than with anybody else, and consequently she is dearer to it than anybody else.
Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna. https://t.co/yEhngiLT0s
A bird perching upon the masthead of a ship in mid-ocean, gets tired of its position and flies away to discover a new place of rest ; but failing to find any other place, it returns at last to the old roost, weary and exhausted. In the same manner, an https://t.co/FZxRiUdUSU
During meditation you should imagine that 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. But why must the thread be silken? Since His lotus feet are too delicate, any other band will https://t.co/JMXX76QKjA
Men are quick to praise and quick to blame; so pay no heed to what others speak of you.
In living your life of peace and virtue, be indifferent alike to the praise and censure of mankind.
Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna,
(Photo: Sri Ramakrishna, #rkmdelhi )
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Meditation and contemplation should be kept up always.
Throwing away all work, you must meditate upon God in the evening, The thought of God naturally comes to the mind at dusk. Everything was visible a while ago, but ah! now it is all shrouded in https://t.co/Hs2eQxA8qh
A person once said: "The innate nature of substance can never be changed." Another retorted, "When fire enters charcoal it destroys its innate blackness." So when the mind is burnt by the fire of Knowledge, its innate nature too is destroyed, and it ceases https://t.co/cT7zQ5dDrK
It is extremely difficult to perform the rites enjoined in the Vedas. Further, at the present time people lead the life of slaves. It is said that those who serve others for twelve years or so become slaves. They acquire the traits of those they https://t.co/fbgrb1swcj