GOSPEL OF RAMAKRISHNA
God created all these phenomena, could He not create Devas ?" He believed in one God, but without form. Visvanatha was repeating the Holy Name of the Lord, "Rama, Rama"; at this he said: "Better repeat the name 'San- desha, Sandesha' (sweetmeat, sweetmeat)." Brahmin: In Benares, Dayananda had long theological discussions with the other pandits. In the end all the pandits unanimously stood on one side, while he stood alone on the other; and then the pandits drove him from the city by raising the outcry: "Dayananda's position is false and must not be accepted!" I also saw Colonel Olcott, the Theosophist. The theoso-phists believe in the existence of the Mahatmas, the realm of the moon, the realm of the sun and the astral realms. They believe that the astral bodies go to these places and so on. Revered Sir, what dost Thou think of Theosophy?
Ramakrishna: Bhakti, devotion to the Su-preme, is the only thing worth having. Do they Devotion to the Supreme. seek Bhakti? Then it is good. If their aim be the realization of God, then they are all right; but by simply dwelling upon these realms and Mahatmas one cannot search after God. One should practise Sadhana (devotional exercises) to attain true Bhakti.
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