GOSPEL OF RAMAKRISHNA
the highest Spiritual Truth alone. A true San-nyasin does not speak of worldly matters, he utters no word which has not bearing upon the Spiritual Ideal. A bee sits on flowers only to drink honey. He does not care for any other object. Then, referring to Rakhal (Swami Brahmananda), who had a wife and a child be-fore he renounced the world, Ramakrishna said: Rakhal and others like him have now understood which is good and which is evil, which is real and which is unreal. They have realized that earthly relations are transitory and ephemeral. They will never again be at-tached to the world. They are like eels which live in the mud but remain untouched by it. Girish: I do not understand all that. Thou hast the power to make everyone unattached to the world and free from bondage. Thou hast the power to make everyone perfect whether a Sannyasin or a householder. When the Ma-laya breeze blows it can transform all trees into sandalwood trees.
Bhagavan : But pithless trees like the banana- The worthy will become perfect. and cotton-tree are not trans- formed into sandalwood. Similarly those who are worthy will become perfect. Worldliness means attachment to
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