Selected Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna 3

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Selected Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna 3

 

6.) God is the Infinite Being, while the Jiva is only a finite being.

How then can finite grasp the infinite? It is like a doll made of salt

trying to fathom the depth of the ocean. In doing so the salt doll is

dissolved into the sea and lost. Similarly the Jiva, in trying to

measure God and know Him, loses his separateness and becomes one with

Him.

 

 

7.) The Lord Himself is playing in the form of man. He is the great

Juggler and this phantasmagoria of Jiva and Jagat is His great jugglery.

The Juggler alone is true; the jugglery is false.

 

 

8.) The human body is like a pot, and the mind, the intellect and senses

are like water, rice, and potato. When you place a pot containing water,

rice and potato on fire, they get heated, and if anyone touches them,

his finger is burnt, even though the heat does not really belong to the

pot, or the water, or the potato or rice. Similarly it is the power of

Brahman in man that causes the mind and the intellect and the sense to

perform their functions; and when that power ceases to act, these also

stop working.

 

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c s shah