To teach others, one must have a badge of authority; otherwise teaching becomes a mockery. A man who is himself ignorant starts out to teach others - like the blind leading the blind! Instead of doing good, such teaching does harm.
After the realization of God one obtains an inner vision. Only then can one diagnose a person's spiritual malady and give instruction. Without the commission from God, a man becomes vain. He says to himself, 'I am teaching people.' This vanity comes from ignorance, for only an ignorant person feels that he is the doer.
A man verily becomes liberated in life if he feels: 'God is the Doer. He alone is doing everything. I am doing nothing.'
Man's sufferings and worries spring only from his persistent thought that he is the doer.
- Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, P 142
(October 27, 1882)
After the realization of God one obtains an inner vision. Only then can one diagnose a person's spiritual malady and give instruction. Without the commission from God, a man becomes vain. He says to himself, 'I am teaching people.' This vanity comes from ignorance, for only an ignorant person feels that he is the doer.
A man verily becomes liberated in life if he feels: 'God is the Doer. He alone is doing everything. I am doing nothing.'
Man's sufferings and worries spring only from his persistent thought that he is the doer.
- Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, P 142
(October 27, 1882)
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