MASTER: "You were absolutely right when you said that through faith alone one achieves all."
ISHAN: "But we are householders."
MASTER: "What if you are? Through His grace even the impossible becomes possible.
Ramprasad sang, 'This world is a mere framework of illusion.' Another man composed a song by way of reply:
This very world is a mansion of mirth;
Here I can eat, here drink and make merry.
Janaka's might was unsurpassed;
What did he lack of the world or the Spirit?
Holding to one as well as the other,
He drank his milk from a brimming cup!
"One should first realize God through spiritual discipline in solitude, and then live in the world. Only then can one be a King Janaka. What can you achieve otherwise?
"Further, take the case of Śiva. He has everything - Kartika, Ganesa, Lakshmi, and Sarasvati. Still, sometimes He dances in a state of divine fervour, chanting the name of Rāma, and sometimes He is absorbed in samādhi."
- Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, P 293
(22 September 1883)
ISHAN: "But we are householders."
MASTER: "What if you are? Through His grace even the impossible becomes possible.
Ramprasad sang, 'This world is a mere framework of illusion.' Another man composed a song by way of reply:
This very world is a mansion of mirth;
Here I can eat, here drink and make merry.
Janaka's might was unsurpassed;
What did he lack of the world or the Spirit?
Holding to one as well as the other,
He drank his milk from a brimming cup!
"One should first realize God through spiritual discipline in solitude, and then live in the world. Only then can one be a King Janaka. What can you achieve otherwise?
"Further, take the case of Śiva. He has everything - Kartika, Ganesa, Lakshmi, and Sarasvati. Still, sometimes He dances in a state of divine fervour, chanting the name of Rāma, and sometimes He is absorbed in samādhi."
- Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, P 293
(22 September 1883)
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