DEVOTEE: "Why don't we feel dispassion toward worldly objects?"
MASTER: "Because of māyā. Through māyā one feels the Real to be the unreal and the unreal to be the Real. The Real means That which is eternal, the Supreme Brahman; and the unreal means that which is non-eternal, that is to say, the world."
DEVOTEE: "We read the scriptures. Why is it that we can't assimilate them?"
MASTER: "What will one accomplish by mere reading? One needs spiritual practice - austerity. Call on God. What is the use of merely repeating the word 'siddhi'? One must eat a little of it.”
- Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, P 583 (02 October 1884)
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