GOSPEL OF RAMAKRISHNA
Oh! Here is sin, here is merit; I want neither the one nor the other. Let me have pure love alone. Here is good, here is evil. Oh! Take them; I want them not. Let me have pure love alone. Here are good works, here are bad works. Oh! Place me above them; I want them not. Grant that I may have pure love alone. " If you take the fruit of good works, like char- ity, you must take the fruit of bad works also. Dual existence. If you take the fruit of merit, you must take the fruit of sin also. Knowledge of the One (Jnana) implies knowl- edge of the many (Ajnana). Taking cleanli- ness, you cannot get rid of its opposite, unclean - liness. Thus a knowledge of light implies a knowledge of darkness, its opposite. A knowl- edge of unity implies a knowledge of diver- sity. Blessed is the man who loves God! What matters it if he eats the flesh of swine? On the Animal food and vegeta-rianism. other hand, if a man lives upon vege- tables but is attached to the world and does not love God, what good shall he gain? (To Syam Babu) To live the life of a house- holder is by no means wrong. But take care
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