So, we are the Kathakathamritam taptiivanam, kavi-videtam Kalma-Shavanam Shravana

Mungalam Shri-Madatatam Bhuvigrinantiya Bhuridhajanah.

So we are studying the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, the English translation of the Bengali Kathamrita.

We have come to an interesting part in the dialogue. It's a long dialogue between Sri Ramak Krishna and the Brahmo devotees who are visiting him.

And we come to a place where the question of God with form, God without form, non-duality, duality, all this comes up.

So let's take a look.

I'm on page 148 and the date is 28 October 1882.

28 October 1882, but I'm sort of halfway in the dialogue here.

This is on page 148.

A brahm who devouty asks him, sir, has God forms or has he none?

Master. No one can say with finality that God is only this and nothing else. He is formless. And again, he has forms.

For the Bhaktah, he assumes forms,

but he is formless for the gaii,

that is for him who looks on the world as a mere dream.

The Bhaktah feels that he is one entity and the world another.

Therefore, God reveals himself to him as a person.

But the Ghani, the Vedantist, for instance, always reasons applying the process of not this, not this.

Through this discrimination, he realizes by his inner perception that the ego and the universe are both illusory like a dream.

Then the gaii realizes Brahman in his own consciousness.

He cannot describe what Brahman is.

Do you know what I mean?

Think of Brahman existence, knowledge, bliss absolute, as a shoreless ocean.

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