Swami Ramakrishnananda's genuine love and concern for others, his profound scholarship and unshakable faith and steadiness and his practical counsel's for facing life's challenges are reflected in the numerous letters he wrote. These will bring succor and strength to all those who are aspiring to lead nobler lives.
I have been asked many times, Why do you laugh so much and make so many jokes? I become serious sometimes--when I have a stomachache! The Lord is all blissfulness. He is the reality behind all that exists. He is the goodness, the truth in everything. You are His incarnations. That is what is glorious. The nearer you are to Him, the less you will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from Him, the more will long faces come. The more we know of Him, the more misery vanishes.
-Swami Vivekananda