Devotee: What is the goal of life ? Work or God realisation ?
Shri Ramakrishna :- Work is only the first step. It can never be the goal of life. Devote yourself to spiritual practice and go forward. Through practice you will advance more and more in the path of God. At last you will come to know that God alone is real and all else is illusory, and that the goal of life is the attainment of God. (Source: Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna)
Devotee: What is the aim of life?
Sri Sarada Devi: To realize God and to be absorbed un-interruptedly in His consciousness is the aim. (Source: Spiritual Talks by the First Disciples of Sri Ramakrishna)