Sri Ramakrishna shows the difference between Lover Of God,Jnani and an Ignorant

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ONCE, three friends were going through a forest, when a tiger suddenly

appeared before them.

 

" Brothers, " one of them exclaimed, " we are lost! " " Why should you say that? "

said the second friend, " Why should we be lost? Come, let us pray to God. " The

third friend said: " No. Why should we trouble God about it? Come, let us climb

this tree. "

 

The friend who said 'We are lost!' did not know that there is a God who is our

Protector. The friend who asked the others to pray to God was a jnani. He was

aware that God is the Creator, Preserver and Destroyer of the world. The third

friend, who didn't want to trouble God with prayers and suggested climbing the

tree, had ecstatic love of God. It is the very nature of such love that it makes

a man think himself stronger than his Beloved. He is always alert lest his

Beloved should suffer. The one desire of his is to keep his Beloved from even

being pricked in the foot by a thorn.

 

Source: Tales and Parables of Sri Ramakrishna

 

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Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya

Prasanth Jalasutram

 

Love And Love Alone