You may try thousands of times, but nothing can be achieved without God's grace. One cannot see God without His grace.
Is it an easy thing to receive the grace of God? One must altogether renounce egotism; one cannot see God as long as one feels, 'I am the doer.'
Suppose, in a family, a man has taken charge of the store-room; then if someone asks the master, 'Sir, will you yourself kindly give me something from the store-room?', the master says to him: 'There is already someone in the store-room. What can I do there?'
God doesn't easily appear in the heart of a man who feels himself to be his own master. But God can be seen the moment His grace descends.
- Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, P 174
(14 December 1882)
Is it an easy thing to receive the grace of God? One must altogether renounce egotism; one cannot see God as long as one feels, 'I am the doer.'
Suppose, in a family, a man has taken charge of the store-room; then if someone asks the master, 'Sir, will you yourself kindly give me something from the store-room?', the master says to him: 'There is already someone in the store-room. What can I do there?'
God doesn't easily appear in the heart of a man who feels himself to be his own master. But God can be seen the moment His grace descends.
- Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, P 174
(14 December 1882)
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