Brahman weeps when ensnared in the meshes of maya. You may close your eyes and reason, ‘There is no thorn, nothing to prick’; but you cry out in pain as soon as your hand is pricked by a thorn. Similarly, you may reason that there is no such thing as birth or death, virtue or vice, pain or misery, hunger or thirst – that you are the eternal Brahman, the Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute. But the moment your body succumbs to illness, or your mind is overcome by temptation, or you commit a transgression distracted by the seemingly sweet enjoyment of lust and gold, you forget your high philosophy and are overwhelmed by delusion and its painful consequences.
Therefore, know for certain that no one can obtain Self-knowledge and become free from misery without God’s grace and the Divine Mother’s unlocking the door. Have you not heard in the Chandi, ‘When the Divine Mother is pleased, She bestows the boon of liberation upon human beings’?
- Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Ramakrishna and His Divine Play, P 538-39
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