GOSPEL OF RAMAKRISHNA
greater is the deflection. Why does a child cry after its birth? It thinks, as it were: "I was enjoying Divine Communion, but now I have lost it. Where have I come and where is my God, where is my God?" For you (to Mahima) the renunciation should be in the mind only. You should remain in the world, but unattached to it. Mahima: Revered Sir, can the world exist for the mind which is fixed on God? Ramakrishna: Of course it will exist; otherwise where will it go? I see that wherever I The kingdom of God is everywhere. remain, I am in the kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, this world is the kingdom of God Ramachandra, the Divine Incarnation and the Hero of the epic Ramayana, said to his father that he would renounce the world and go to a spiritual Guru in order to attain spiritual wisdom. The father summoned the great sage Vashishta to reason with his son. Vashishta saw r that Rama had intense dispassion for the world; he then said to him "O Rama, first discriminate with me, then renounce the world." By right discrimination Rama realized that God manifests Himself in the form of Jiva, or the individual soul and the world. Everything lives and exists
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