GOSPEL OF RAMAKRISHNA
I went to Vishnupura.[1] The Râjâ has several good temples. In one of the temples there is the image of a Goddess named Mrinmayi. A big tank is before the temple. But how was it that I smelled in the tank the spices that women use to perfume their hair? I did not know that they offered such spices to the Goddess when they went to worship her. I had not seen her image near the tank, but in Samâdhi I saw her Divine form down to her waist. The Divine Mother of the universe appeared to me in the form of Mrinmayi.
By this time other devotees had arrived. The talk then turned on the Kabul war and the civil war that came after. One gave the news that Yâkub Khân[2] had been deposed from his throne, adding: Sir, Yâkub Khân is a great devotee.
Srî Râmakrishna: Well, pleasure and pain, happiness and misery, are things one cannot Trials of a devotee. separate from the body. We read in Kavi Kankana's[3] "Chandi" that
Kâluvira, a great devotee, was shut up in prison.
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