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GOSPEL OF RAMAKRISHNA

course God can be realized by one who lives in the world. Brahmo devotee: What is the sign of one Signs of true wisdom. who has attained true wisdom living in the World?

Ramakrishna: When the repetition of the Name of the Lord will bring tears to the eyes, send a thrill through the whole body and make the hair stand on end. The spiritual eye must be opened. It is open when the mind is purified. Then the presence of Divinity will be realized everywhere and every woman will appear as Divine Mother. Everything is in the mind. The impure mind brings attachment to the world, and the purified mind brings the realization of God. The impure mind of a man becomes attached to a woman. Woman natu-rally loves man and man naturally loves woman, and from this spring attachment and worldlmess. Every woman represents Divine Motherhood. The same Divine Mother appears in all womenDivine Mother in all women. under various forms. It is said in the Scriptures that Narada in prayer thus addressed Rama: "O Rama, Thou art Purusha, Thou appearest in the form ot all men, and Sita, Thy Prakriti, appears in the form of all women. Thou art man and Sita is woman.

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