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Question (asked by M):When one sees God does one see Him with these eyes ?

( M is Mahendra Nath)

 

Sri Ramakrishna : `God cannot be seen with these physical eyes. In the

cource of spiritual discipline one gets a " love body " , endowed with " love

eyes " ,

" love ears " and so on. One sees God with those " love eyes " . One hears the

voice

of God with those " love ears " . One even gets a sexual organ made of love.

 

At these words M, burst out laughing. Sri Ramakrishna continued,

unannoyed,

`With this " love body " the soul communes with the God.'

 

M again became serious.

 

`But this is not possible without intense love of God. One sees nothing

but God

everywhere when one loves Him with great intensity. It is like a person

with

jaundice, who sees everything yellow. Then one feels " I am verily He. "

 

`A drunkard, deeply intoxicated , says " Verily I am Kali! " The gopis,

intoxicated with love exclaimed, " Verily I am Krishna! "

 

`One who thinks of God, day and night, beholds Him everywhere. It is like

a

man's seeing flames on all sides after he has gazed fixedly at one flame

for

some time.'

 

`But that is not the real flame, flashed through M's mind. Sri

Ramakrishna, who

could read a man's inmost thought, said : `One doesn't lose consciousness

by

thinking of Him who is all Spirit, all consciousness. Shivanath once

remarked

that too much thinking about God confounds the brain. Thereupon I said to

him,

" How can one become unconscious by thinking of Conscious? " .

 

 

 

sarvam vasudevamayam jagath

PRASHANTH.G