(Notes taken from SRI SARADA DEVI LIFE AND TEACHINGS of Ramakrishna Matt Link)
Open your grief-stricken heart to the Lord. Weep and sincerely pray, ‘O Lord, draw me towards You; give me peace of mind.’ By doing so constantly you will gradually attain peace of mind.
One who makes a habit of prayer will easily overcome all difficulties and remain calm and unruffled in the midst of the trials of life.
Is faith so cheap, my child? Faith is the last word. If one has faith, the goal is practically reached. God is one’s very own. It is the eternal relationship. He is everyone’s own.
One realizes Him in proportion to the intensity of one’s feeling for Him. God cannot be realized without love. Yes, sincere love.
He who has really prayed to the Master, even once, has nothing to fear. By praying to him constantly one gets ecstatic love (Prema Bhakti) through his grace. This Prema, my child, is the innermost thing of spiritual life. The Gopis of Vrindavan attained to it. They were not aware of anything in the world excepting Sri Krishna. A line in one of Nilakantha’s songs says, ‘One should cherish with great care this precious jewel of Prema.’