Friday, April 3, 2009
Ramakrishna Quotes on SIN
"It is God alone who has planted in man's mind what the Englishman calls free will. People who have not realized God would become engaged in more and more sinful actions if God had not planted in them the notion of free will. Sin would have increased if God had not made the sinner feel that he is responsible."
"If a man has faith in God, then even if he has comitted the most heinous sins- such as killing a cow, a brAhmin, or a woman - he will certainly be saved through his faith.
Let him say to God, 'O Lord, I will not repeat such an action', and he need not be afraid of anything."
"Give up all such notions as: 'Shall we be cured of our delirium?', 'What will happen to us?', 'We are sinners!' One must have this kind of faith: 'What? Once I have uttered the name of RAma,
can I be a sinner any more?'"
"Once someone gave me a book of the Christians. I asked him to read it to me. It talked of nothing but sin. The wretch who constantly says, "I am bound, I am bound', only succeeds in being bound. He who says day and night, 'I am a sinner, I am a sinner' verily becomes a sinner."
"Suicide is a heinous sin, undoubtedly. A man who kills himself must return again and again to this world and suffer its agony. "But I don't call it suicide if a person leaves his body after having the vision of God. There is no harm in giving up one's body that way. After attaining Knowledge some people give up their bodies. After the gold image has been cast in the clay mold, you may either preserve the mold or break it."
"All the sins of the body fly away if one chants the name of God and sings his glories. The birds of sin dwell in the tree of the body. Singing the name of God is like clapping your hands. As, at the clap of the hands, the birds in the tree fly away, so do our sins disappear at the chanting of God's name and glories."
ooooooooooooooo-om sri sri ramakrishna paramahamsadeva om-ooooooooooooooo
A BATH IN THE HOLY RIVER GANGES
March 11, 1883. Bengal, India.
The Master said:
"Suppose a man becomes pure by chanting the holy name of God, but immediately afterwards commits many sins. He has no strength of mind. He doesn't take a vow not to repeat his sins.
A bath in the Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that
the sins perch on the trees along the banks of the Ganges. No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters than the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees. The same old sins take possesion of him again. He is hardly out of the water before they fall upon him.
"Therefore I say, chant the name of God, and with it pray to Him that you may have love for Him.
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day"
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