Sri RamaKrishna says difference between worldly and other-worldly things?

[Guest guest]

DEVOTEE: " Sir, what is the difference between worldly and other-worldly

things? "

 

MASTER: " While striving for the realization of God, the aspirant has to

practise renunciation, applying the logic of 'Neti, neti'—'Not this, not

this', But after attaining the vision of God, he realizes that God alone has

become all things.

 

" At one time Rama was overpowered by the spirit of

renunciation.Dasaratha,worried at this, went to the sage Vasishtha and

begged him to persuade Rama not to give up the world. The sage came to Rama

and found him in a gloomy mood. The fire of intense renunciation had been

raging in the Prince's mind.

 

Vasishtha said: 'Rama,why should You renounce the world? Is the world

outside God? Reason with me.' Rama realized that the world had evolved from

the Supreme Brahman. So, He said nothing.

 

" Buttermilk is made from the same substance as butter. One who realizes this

knows that butter goes with buttermilk and buttermilk with butter. After

separating the butter with great effort-that is to say, after attaining

Brahmajnana—you will realize that as long as butter exists, buttermilk also

must exist.

 

Wherever there is butter there must be buttermilk as well. As long as one

feels that Brahman exists, one must also be aware that the universe, living

beings,and the twenty-four cosmic principles exist as well.

 

Source: THE GOSPEL OF RAMAKRISHNA

 

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