Faith

The devotees from Manirampur asked the Master how to realize God. 

MASTER: "You must practise spiritual discipline a little. It will not do simply to say that milk contains butter. You must let the milk set into curd and then churn it. Only then can you get butter from it. Spiritual aspirants must go into solitude now and then. After acquiring love of God in solitude, they may live in the world. If one is wearing a pair of shoes, one can easily walk over thorns. 

            The most important thing is faith. 

           As is a man's meditation, so is his feeling of love; 

           As is a man's feeling of love, so is his gain; 

  And faith is the root of all.

If one has faith one has nothing to fear."  

- Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, P 241 

                   (10 June 1883)