“Do your worldly duties with a part of your mind and direct most of it to God. A sadhu should think of God with three-quarters of his mind and with one quarter should do his other duties. He should be very alert about spiritual things. The snake is very sensitive in its tail. Its whole body reacts when it is hurt there. Similarly, the whole life of a sadhu is affected when his spirituality is touched.”
(p.440, The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, Dt. 25 May 1884)