Sri RamaKrishna says First acquire right discrimination and true dispassion and then live in the world

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Would you keep a large water-jar and savory pickles in the same room in

which a patient with typhoid fever was lying? If you wish to cure such a

patient, you must have him removed from that room, in case it is impossible

to send away the jar and the pickles.

 

A man of the world is like unto such a thirsty patient;worldly attractions

are like the jar of water; sense objects are like the savory pickles; desire

to enjoy those things is the patient's thirst. The mouth waters at the mere

thought of the pickles.

 

We should not therefore remain near them all the time.Hence solitude is the

best remedy for worldliness.

 

First acquire right discrimination and true dispassion and then live in the

world. In the sea of the world there are crocodiles of passions and desires.

Rub the body with turmeric-paste if you wish to bathe in the sea, for then

crocodiles will do no harm to you. The turmeric is discrimination (of the

Real from the unreal) and true dispassion. God is the only Reality, the

phenomenal universe is unreal. Along with this another thing is needed, that

is intense devotion to God. [p. 163]

 

Source: THE GOSPEL OF RAMAKRISHNA Revised by SWAMI ABHEDANANDA

 

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Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya

Prasanth Jalasutram

 

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