Come, let us go for walk, O mind to Kali, the Wish-Fulfilling Tree,

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Come, let us go for walk, O mind to Kali, the Wish-Fulfilling Tree,

And there beneath It gather the four fruits of life ,

Of your two wives, Dispassion and Worldliness,

Bring along Dispassion only, on your way to the Tree,

And ask her son Discrimination about the Truth,

 

When will you learn to lie, O Mind, in the abode of Blessedness,

With Cleanliness and Defilement on either side of you ?

Only when you have found the way

To keep this wives contentedly under single roof ,

Will you behold the matchless form of Mother Syama.

 

Ego and Ignorance , your parents ,instantly banish from your sight ;

And should Delusion seek to drag you to its hole ,

Manfully cling to the pillar of Patience,

Tie to the post of Unconcern the goats of Vice and Virtue,

Killing them with sword of Knowledge if they rebel.

 

With the children of Worldliness, your first wife ,plead from a

goodly distance,

And if they would not listen, drown them in Wisdom's sea.

Says Ramprasad ; If you do as I say,

You can submit a good account , O Mind to the King of Death,

And I shall be well pleased with you and call you my darling.

 

(Excerpts from Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna,Volume 1, The Master and

Keshab, pg 139.)