SAYINGS OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA

Resignation to God

He who can resign himself to the will of the Almighty with simple faith and guileless love realises the Lord very quickly. 

To live in the world or to leave it depends upon the will of God. Therefore work, leaving everything to Him. 

What else can you do? 

A shallow pool of water in an open field will soon be dried up, though no one may lessen the quantity of its water by using it. So a sinful man is sometimes purified by simply resigning himself totally and absolutely to the mercy and grace of God. 

Question: What are we to do when we are placed in this world? 

Answer: Give up everything to Him, resign yourself to Him, and there will be no more trouble for you. 

Then you will come to know that everything is done by His will. 

There is no path safer and smoother than that of Ba-kalam (power of attorney). Here Ba-kalam means resigning oneself to the will of the Almighty and having no feeling that anything is one's own. 

The young of a monkey clings to its mother tightly when she moves about. The kitten on the other hand does not do so but mews piteously, and the mother grasps it by the neck. 

If the young of the monkey lets go its hold of its mother, it falls down and gets hurt. This is because it relies upon its own 

strength. But the kitten runs no such risk, as the mother herself carries it about from place to place. 

Such is the difference between self-reliance and entire resignation to the will of God. 

A father was once passing through a field with his two little sons. He was carrying one of them in his arms while the other was walking along with him holding his hand. They saw a kite flying, and the latter boy, giving up his hold of his father's hand, began to clap with joy, crying, "Behold, papa, there is a kite!" 

But immediately he stumbled down and got hurt. The boy who was carried by the father also clapped his hands with joy, but did not fall, as his father was holding him. The first boy represents self-help in spiritual matters, and the second self-surrender.

🕉 Wise Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna. 

515 - 521.

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