GOSPEL OF RAMAKRISHNA
the gross body, the subtle body, the Karana (the causal body made of joy) and the Maha-karana (the Great Cause or the Unconditioned). When you pray, ask for Bhakti, devotion to His Lotus Feet. After Ahalya[1] was made free from the curse called down upon her by her husband, Rama Chandra said: "Ask for a boon from me." Ahalya replied: "O Rama, if Thou wilt give me a boon, do Thou grant that my mind may ever be on Thy feet beautiful like the lotus. O, I may be born among swine, but that will not matter."
For my part, I pray for love (Bhakti) alone to my Divine Mother. Putting flowers upon Prayer for Bhakti. Her Lotus Feet, with folded hands I prayed: "Mother, here is ignorance, here is knowledge. Oh! Take them; I want them not. Grant that I may have pure love alone. Here is cleanliness (of the mind and body), here is uncleanliness; what shall I do with them? Let me have pure love alone.
- ↑ Ahalya, wife of the great logician, the sage Goutama. She was a devoted wife, but the villainy of her seducer, who personated her husband, made her unchaste. Hence the curse, the effect of which was, it is said, that she was turned into stone. The touch of Rama Chandra made her human once more.
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