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Question (asked by M) : Under what conditions does one see God?

( I think M stands for Mahendra Nath)

 

Sri Ramakrishna : `Cry to the Lord with an intensely yearning heart and

you will certainly see Him. People shed a whole jug of tears for wife and

children. They swim in tears for money. But who weeps for God ? Cry to him

with real cry'

 

Cry to your mother Syama with a real cry, O mind !

And how can She hold Herself from you ?

How can Syama stay away ?

How can your Mother Kali hold Herself away ?

 

O mind, if you are in earnest, bring Her an offering

of bel-leaves and hibiscus flowers,

Lay at her feet your offering

And with it mingle the fragrant sandal-paste of Love

 

`Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn, out comes the sun. Longing

is followed by the vision of God.

`God reveals Himself to a devotee who feels drawn to Him by the combined

force of these three attractions: the attraction of wordly possesions for

the wordly man, the child's attraction for its mother, and the husband's

attraction for the chaste wife. If one feels drawn to Him by the combined

force of these three attractions, then through it one can attain Him.

`The point is, to love God even as the mother loves her child, the

chaste wife her husband, and the wordly man his wealth. Add together these

three forces of love, these three powers of attraction, and give it all to

God. Then you will certainly see Him.

`It us necessary to pray Him with a longing heart. The kitten know only

how to call his mother, crying, " Mew mew! " It remains satisfied whenever

its mother puts it. And the mother cat puts the kitten sometimes in the

kitchen and sometimes in the floor, and sometimes on the bed. When it

suffers it cries only, " Mew, mew! " Thats all it knows. But as soon as

mother hears to this cry, wherever she may be, she comes to the kitten.'

 

 

 

sarvam vasudevamayam jagath

PRASHANTH.G