Sri Ramakrishna

THERE was a wood-cutter who was highly spiritual. One day he was dreaming a happy dream; but being suddenly awakened by someone, he exclaimed with annoyance: "Why did you awaken me? I was a king and …

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(With regard to the priestly class, Sri Ramakrishna used to tell an incident from the life of Gauranga.) WHEN Sri Gauranga, being wholly absorbed in Bhava-Samadhi, fell into the ocean, he was …

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A THIEF entered the palace of a king in the dead of night and overheard the king saying to the queen, "I shall give my daughter in marriage to one of those sadhus (holy men) who are dwelling on the …

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HRIDAY asked me—I was then under his control to pray to the Divine Mother for (occult) powers. I went to the temple. In a vision I saw a widow thirty or thirty five years old, covered with filth. It …

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It is 'woman and gold' that binds man and robs -*- him of his freedom. It is woman that creates the need for gold. For woman one becomes the slave of another, and so loses his freedom. Then he cannot …

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