The One becomes two in order to enjoy Its own Bliss

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The whole thing is to love God and taste His sweetness.

He is sweetness and the devotee is its enjoyer. The

devotee drinks the sweet Bliss of God. Further, God is the

lotus and the devotee the bee. The devotee sips the honey

of the lotus.

 

As a devotee cannot live without God, so also God cannot

live without His devotee. Then the devotee becomes the

sweetness, and God its enjoyer. The devotee becomes

the lotus, and God the bee. It is the Godhead that has

become these two in order to enjoy Its own Bliss.

 

- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

 

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The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

by M. (Mahendranath Gupta)

Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Society, 1942