MASTER: “… …What is the use of printing and advertising? He who teaches men gets his power from God. None but a man of renunciation can teach others. I am the greatest of all fools!" (All laugh.)
A DEVOTEE: "Then how is it that the Vedas and the Vedānta, and many things besides, come out of your mouth?"
MASTER (smiling): "During my boyhood I could understand what the Sādhus read at the Lahas' house at Kamarpukur, although I would miss a little here and there. If a pundit speaks to me in Sanskrit I can follow him, but I cannot speak it myself.
To realize God is the one goal of life. While aiming his arrow at the mark, Arjuna said, 'I see only the eye of the bird and nothing else-not the kings, not the trees, not even the bird itself.'
The realization of God is enough for me. What does it matter if I don't know Sanskrit?”
- Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, P 407 (23 March 1884)
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