GSRK-04 Path of the Impersonal God M: Sir, is there no spiritual discipline leading to realization of the Impersonal God? MASTER: Yes, there is. But the path is extremely difficult. After intense austerities the rishis of olden times realized God as their inner most consciousness and experienced the real nature of Brahman. But how hard they had to work! They went out of their dwellings in the early morning and all day practised austerities and meditation. Returning home at nightfall, they took a light supper of fruit and roots. But an aspirant cannot succeed in this form of spiritual discipline if his mind is stained with worldliness even in the slightest degree. The mind must withdraw totally from all objects of form, taste, smell, touch, and sound. Only thus does it become pure. The Pure Mind is the same as the Pure Ātman. But such a mind must be altogether free from woman and gold. When it becomes pure, one has another experience. One realizes: God alone is the Doer, and I am His instrument. One does not feel oneself to be absolutely necessary to others either in their misery or in their happiness. Once a wicked man beat into unconsciousness a monk who lived in a monastery. On regaining consciousness he was asked by his friends, Who is feeding you milk? The monk said, He who beat me is now feeding me. M: Yes, sir. I know that story. THE GOSPEL OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA,CH.17
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