Keeping Awake and Taking Care.
Place: Dakshineswar. Period: Sometime in the early 1880s. It's night and Latu (who later became Swami Adbhutananda) is fanning Sri Ramakrishna. Latu has worked hard all day and is feeling drowsy, but despite this, his service to Sri Ramakrishna does not slacken. The Master knows all of this. In a half-joking, half serious tone he asks: 'Latu, can you say weather God ever sleeps?'
Latu says he doesn't know.
Sri Ramakrishna continues, now more seriously: 'Everyone in the world sleeps, but God does not. If God slept , the universe would be plunged into darkness and would dissolve. God must remain awake day and night taking care of his creatures, so that they can sleep without fear.'
Latu is amazed. He asks: "Do you mean God takes care of us all when we sleep and we accept service from Him?"
"Yes," Sri Ramakrishna says, "that is right. He lulls us all to sleep and stays awake to watch over us."
- Vedanta Kesari
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