GOSPEL OF RAMAKRISHNA
Absolute existence; She will come to you and speak to you. Have faith and you will get everything. If you have faith in the formless Divinity, you must make that faith as firm as a rock. But do not be dogmatic; you must never dogmatize about God. You must not say that He is like this and not like anything else. You may say: "I believe in a formless Divinity, but what else He is, is known to Him. I do not know, I cannot understand." The small intellect of man cannot grasp the whole nature of God. A vessel which can hold a pound only, how can it contain four pounds? If God reveals Himself to one by His Grace and makes one understand His nature, then one realizes Him and not until then. The Absolute and the Divine Mother are one. Bijoy: How can we attain to the vision of the Divine Mother and the realization of the Absolute? Ramakrishna: With earnest longing and sin- cerity pray and cry. When the heart will be purified, then you will see the vision Vision of the Divine Mother and the Absolute. as in pure water you can see the re- flection of the sun. Upon the mirror of the ego of the devotee is to be seen the reflection ot the Absolute Mother of the
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