Incomprehensible God

 

Different Paths

Do you know what the truth is? God has made different religions to suit different aspirants, times, and countries. All doctrines are only so many paths; but a path is by no means God Himself. Indeed, one can reach God if one follows any of the paths with whole-hearted devotion. Suppose there are errors in the religion that one has accepted; if one is sincere and earnest, then God Himself will correct those errors. Suppose a man has set out with a sincere desire to visit Jagannath at Puri and by mistake has gone north instead of south; then certainly someone meeting him on the way will tell him: 'My good fellow, don't go that way. Go to the south.' And the man will reach Jagannath sooner or later. 

If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.  

- Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, P 559 (26 September 1884)

As per Digestion

 

Food

 

Asti-Bhati-Priyam

Referring to Existence-Knowledge-Bliss, the Master would explain us: 

“Do you know what this is? It’s the true nature of Brahman. Vedanta explains it this way: whatever truly exists, manifests itself. This manifestation is the nature of knowledge. The thing that we know becomes manifest to us. 

Isn’t this true? 

So Vedanta says that whenever we are conscious of an object’s existence, that object is simultaneously revealed along with our consciousness of it; in other words, we become conscious or its nature as knowledge. And forthwith we feel it as dear; that is, it’s blissful nature rouses a feeling of love within us and causes us to love it. Thus, wherever we are conscious of Existence, we are also conscious of Knowledge and Bliss. Therefore, what is Existence is also Knowledge and Bliss; what is Knowledge is also Existence and Bliss, and what is Bliss is also Existence and Knowledge. 

This world, the objects within it, and all beings, have their source in Brahman, and the true nature of that Brahman is asti-bhati-priyam, or Satchidananda. The Uttara Gita says that after illumination one realises that the Paramatman dwells in the place, person, or thing to which one’s mind is drawn: Yatra yatra mano yati, tatra tatra param padam (3:9). It is also said in the Vedas that because sense objects are permeated by Brahman, the human mind runs after them.”  

- Sri Ramakrishna and His Divine Play, P 572

God in All

 

Newspaper

ISHAN (to the doctor [Sarkar]): "Why don't you believe in the Incarnation of God? Just now you said that God has form since He has created all these forms, and that God is formless since He has created the mind, which is without form. A moment ago you said that everything is possible for God." 

MASTER (laughing): "It is not mentioned in his 'science' that God can take human form; so how can he believe it? 

(All laugh.)  

"Listen to a story. A man said to his friend, 'I have just seen a house fall down with a terrific crash.' Now, the friend to whom he told this had received an English education. He said: 'Just a minute. Let me look it up in the newspaper.' He read the paper but could not find the news of a house falling down with a crash. Thereupon he said to his friend: 'Well, I don't believe you. It isn't in the paper; so it is all false.' "(All laugh.) 

- Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, P 864 (22 October 1885)