At Balaram’s house, Sri Ramakrishna was illustrating his teachings with some very apt tales. Harinath was surprised at the spontaneity with which these stories cropped up in his talk, and he asked, “Sir, do you prepare your similes before you go out?” The Master replied: “No. Mother is always present. Wherever I am, Mother supplies me with ideas.”
Students of the New York Vedanta Society found that Turiyananda was an inexhaustible mine of spiritual wisdom. While walking, eating, or sitting, his spiritual conversation flowed like a perennial spring. Once he was asked: “Swami, how is it possible for you to always speak of holy subjects? Don’t you ever get exhausted?” Turiyananda replied: “You see, I have lived this life from my youth; it has become part and parcel of me. And Divine Mother keeps the supply filled up. Her store can never be exhausted. Whatever goes out, She at once fills up again.”