Sri Ramakrishna brought with him sixteen eternal companions to exemplify the different paths by which the Ultimate can be realized. The diligent steady of their lives will illumine our own progress in the spiritual field.
Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything else shall be added unto you. This is the one great duty, this is renunciation. Live for an ideal, and leave no place in the mind for anything else.
-Swami Vivekananda