Oh, Tavakatham, Ritam, daphtha, jivanam, kavidetam, Kalma shravana, Shravanam

Shrema, Thubhryanantanthi Bhuri-Dajana.

So we are studying the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna and the meeting with Vidyāsagar.

That's the part we had started last time.

So we are on page 102 and Srirama Krishna was talking about Adwaita Vedanta saying that how

Brahman is beyond language and beyond conception. So he has given a couple of examples. The example of the ant and the hill of sugar and the example of a man who went to see the ocean.

So I'm reading it towards the last but one paragraph, page 102.

Men often think 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 is the way shallow minds think. They don't know that

Brahman is beyond one's words and thought. However great a man may be, how much can he know of

Brahman? Shukhadeva and sages like him may have been big ants, but even they could carry at the

most eight or ten grains of sugar.

That's one example.

The second example was, 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 first 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.

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