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   Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna . 🙏 🙏 

Abridged Edition . 🙏 

Master .... Men often think that they have understood Brahman fully.

   Once an ant went to a Hill of sugar . 

One grain filled its stomach. Taking another grain in its mouth, it started homeward.

   On its way, it thought .......,  Next time I shall carry home the whole hill ....

   That's the way , shallow minds think....

They do not know that Brahman is beyond 

one's words and thoughts.

However great a man may be, how much can he know of Brahman ? 

Sukadeva and sages like him may have been big ants ..... but even they could carry at the utmost eight or ten grains of sugar .....

As for what has been said in the Vedas and the Puranas , do you know  what it is like ? 

   Suppose a man has seen the ocean , and 

somebody asks him..... Well ,  what is the ocean like ? 

    The man opens his mouth as wide as he can and says.....

                            What a Sight  !! What 

tremendous waves and sounds!! 

The description of Brahman in the Sacred books is like that. It is said in the Vedas 

that Brahman is of the nature of Bliss. 🙏 🙏 

It is Satchidananda . 🙏 🙏. 🙏 🙏 

Suka and other sages stood on the shore of this Ocean of Brahman and saw and touched the water. 🙏 

    According to one school of thought, 

they never plunged into it .

    Those who do cannot come back to 

the world again . 🙏 🙏 

Jai Ramakrishna 🙏 🙏. 🙏 🙏