… Brahman and Shakti are identical. If you accept the one, you must accept the other. It is like fire and its power to burn. If you see the fire, you must recognize its power to burn also. You cannot think of fire without its power to burn, nor can you think of the power to burn without fire.
You cannot conceive of the sun's rays without the sun, nor can you conceive of the sun without its rays.
What is milk like? Oh, you say, it is something white. You cannot think of the milk without the whiteness, and again, you cannot think of the whiteness without the milk.
Thus one cannot think of Brahman without Shakti, or of Shakti without Brahman. One cannot think of the Absolute without the Relative, or of the Relative without the Absolute.
- Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, P 134
(October 27, 1882)
You cannot conceive of the sun's rays without the sun, nor can you conceive of the sun without its rays.
What is milk like? Oh, you say, it is something white. You cannot think of the milk without the whiteness, and again, you cannot think of the whiteness without the milk.
Thus one cannot think of Brahman without Shakti, or of Shakti without Brahman. One cannot think of the Absolute without the Relative, or of the Relative without the Absolute.
- Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, P 134
(October 27, 1882)
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