Have you seen God?

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"There are signs by which you can know whether a man has truly seen God. One

of these is joy; there is no hesitancy in him. He is like the ocean: the

waves and sounds are on the surface; below are profound depths. The man who

has seen God behaves sometimes like a madman; sometimes like a ghoul,

without feeling of purity or impurity; sometimes like an inert thing,

remaining speechless because he sees God within and without; sometimes like

a child, without any attachment, wandering about unconcernedly with his

cloth under his arm. Again, in the mood of a child, he acts in different

ways: sometimes like a boy, indulging in frivolity; sometimes like a young

man, working and teaching with the strength of a lion."

 

Ramakrishna

>From the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna by M. (Mahendranath Gupta)

Translated by Swami Nikhilananda

Copyright 1942. Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, New York, New York