GOSPEL OF RAMAKRISHNA
Bhagavan (affectionately): That is indeed so. He will teach as internal Ruler of the heart (Antaryamin). The discussion grew warm. It turned on matters too high for ordinary comprehension: Was Infinity indivisible? What did Hamilton say as to the limit of human knowledge; and Herbert Spencer, Tyndall and Huxley? Ramakrishna: I for my part do not like these things. God is beyond the power of reasoning; He is something more. I see that whatever is, is God. What then is the necessity of reason-ing about Him? I do actually see that what-ever is, is God. It is He who has become all these things. This is a stage at which the mind and the intellect (Buddhi) are lost in the Ab-solute and Indivisible Being. At the sight of Narendra my mind becomes merged in the In-divisible Absolute. What, pray, do you say to this? Girish (smiling): Surely, Revered Sir, we do not pretend that we understand everything except this.
Ramakrishna: Thereupon at the end of Samadhi I must come down two notes at least below the highest note in the scale before I can utter a word. Vedanta has been explained by
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