Devotional quotes from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Bhagavan Sri Ramana taught us that bhakti is the mother of jñāna, meaning that love is the mother of true knowledge, namely awareness of ourself as we actually are, because only when our stone-like heart melts and dissolves in all-consuming love for him, our own real nature, will we finally be freed from desire for anything other than him and therefore be willing to surrender ourself entirely to him.   

Let it all go

The complete eradication of the ego is indeed very hard when even in the case of Kannappa, whose love for Lord Shiva was so great that he plucked out his own eyes and planted them on the Lord’s face, there remained [until that moment] a trace of body attachment [i.e. ego] in the form of his pride concerning his beautiful bright eyes.