Sri Ramakrishna with Pundit Shashadhar
MASTER ( TO PUNDIT) : "When I first heard about you, I inquired whether you were merely erudite or whether you had discrimination and renunciation. A pundit who doesn't know how to discriminate between the Real and the unreal is no pundit at all.
" There is no harm in teaching others if the preacher has a commission from the Lord. Nobody can confound a preacher who teaches people after having received the command of God. Getting a ray of light from the goddess of learning, a man becomes so powerful that before him big scholars seem mere earthworms.
" When the lamp is lighted the moths come in swarms. They don't have to be invited. In the same way, the preacher who has a commission from God need not invite people to hear him. He doesn't have to announce the time of his lectures. He possesses such irresistible attraction that people come to him of their own accord. People of all classes, even kings and aristocrats, gather around him. They say to him : ' Revered sir, what can we offer you ? Here are mangoes, sweets, money, shawls, and other things. What will you be pleased to accept ? In that case I say to them : ' Go away. I don't care for these. I don't want anything.'
" Does the magnet say to the iron , ' Come near me ? That is not necessary . Because of the attraction of the magnet, the iron rushes to it.
FROM : THE GOSPEL OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA - PAGE 465/466
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