GOSPEL OF RAMAKRISHNA
and is happy; let him enjoy his belief.' "I also told him to believe in the Divine Mother, The Absolute and the Divine Mother. that the Absolute and the Divine Mother are one. The Divine Mother is the eternal Energy. They are in-separable. They appear as separate so long as we are conscious of the body and as we try to describe them by words. Eventually Keshab believed in the Divine Mother. Once he came with his disciples to see me. I asked him to give a lecture, so he delivered his lecture and after it I had a long talk with him. I said: God His devo-tee and His word one. "He who is the Personal God mani- fests in one form as His devotee and in another form as His word." Then I went on to say to him: "You are living in the realm of Maya (worldliness). This Maya does not let anyone know God. It keeps all in ignorance."
How wonderful is its power! It entangles even a Divine Incarnation and makes Him Delusive pow-er of Maya. suffer from hunger, thirst, sorrow, misery, like an ordinary mortal. Do you not see how Rama, the Divine Incarnation, suffered for Sita? How with great sorrow, He wept bitterly when Sita was stolen away from Him? In the Hindu mythology there is a story
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