So we are studying the gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, which is the English translation of the Bengali Sri

Ramakrishna Kathamvita.

Now we were on 24th August 1882,

24th August 1882.

And we are on page 115, 115.

At the very bottom of the page, we have been reading this last time.

In the bottom of the page, Sirama Krishna is saying,

one who thinks of God day and night beholds him everywhere.

It is like a man seeing flames on all sides after he has gazed fixedly at one flame for some time. But that isn't the real flame.

Flash through M's mind.

Sriramakrishna who could read a man's in most part said,

One doesn't lose consciousness by thinking of him who is all spirit, all consciousness. Shivinat once remarked that too much thinking about God confounds the brain. Thereupon I said to him, how can one become unconscious by thinking of consciousness?

Yes, sir, I realize that.

It isn't like thinking of an unreal object.

How can a man lose his intelligence if he always fixes his mind on him whose very nature is eternal intelligence?

Master, with pleasure.

It is through God's grace that you understand that. The doubts of the mind will not disappear without his grace. Doubts do not

disappear without self-realization. But one need not fear anything if one has received the grace of God.

It is rather easy for a child to stumble if he holds his father's hand.

But there can be no such fear if the father holds the child's hand.

A man does not have to suffer anymore if God, in his grace, removes his hand. A man does not have to suffer anymore if God in his grace removes his doubts and reveals himself to him.

But this grace descends upon him only after he has prayed to God with intense yearning of heart

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