GOSPEL OF RAMAKRISHNA
Sri Ramakrishna (to the Doctor): Will you take me some day to the Association? Doctor: My dear Sir, once you are there, you would lose all sense-consciousness at the sight of the glorious and wonderful works of God, of the intelligence shown in these works and the adaptation of the means to the end. Sri Ramakrishna: Oh indeed! Doctor (to Girish) : Do everything else, but Worship of the spiritual preceptor. pray do not worship Him as God. By doing so, you are only bringing ruin on such a holy man. Girish: Sir, there is, I fear, no help for it. He who has enabled me to get across this ter- rible sea of the world and the no less terrible sea of scepticism — how else shall I serve such a person? There is nothing in Him I cannot worship. Doctor: I myself hold that all men are equal. As to this holy man, do you think I cannot salute and kiss the dust of His feet? Look here! (The Doctor saluted and kissed the dust of the Bhagavan's feet.) Girish: Oh, sir, the angels in heaven are saying: "Blessed, blessed be this auspicious moment!"
Doctor: You seem to think that saluting
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