The Divine Mother revealed to me in the Kali temple that it was She who had become everything. She showed me that everything was full of Consciousness. The image was Consciousness, the altar was Consciousness, the water-vessels were Consciousness, the door-sill was Consciousness, the marble-floor was Consciousness -- all was Consciousness. I found everything inside the room soaked, as it were in Bliss--the Bliss of Satchidananda. I saw a wicked man in front of the Kali temple; but in him also I saw the Power of Divine Mother vibrating. That is why I fed a cat with the food that was to be offered to the Divine Mother. I clearly perceived that the Divine Mother Herself had become everything--even the cat.
Again, I find sometimes that living beings are like so many pills made of Indivisible Consciousness...At one place I ran to the meadow to see how living beings are sustained. I saw ants crawling there. It appeared to me that every place was filled with Consciousness. After the realisation of God, He is seen in all beings. But His greater manifestation is in man. Again among men, God manifests Himself more clearly in those devotees who are sattvic, in those who have no desire whatever to enjoy 'women and gold'. Undoutedly, God exists in all beings as the All-pervading Spirit, but the manifestations of His Power are different in different beings. Don't you see that among the human beings there are cheats and gamblers, to say nothing of men who are like tigers. I think of them as the 'cheat God', 'the tiger God'.
God no doubt dwells in all, but He manifests Himself more through man than through other beings. Is man an insignificant thing? He can think of God, he can think of the Infinite, while other living beings cannot...Fire exists in all beings, in all things, but its presence is felt more in wood. One day I was about to gather some flowers. They were everywhere on the trees. At once I had a vision of Virat; it appeared as if His worship was just over. The flowers looked like a bouquet placed on the head of the Deity. I could not pluck them.
With sincerity and earnestness one can realise God through all religions. Some people indulge in quarrels saying, "One cannot attain anything unless one worships our Krishna", or, "Nothing can be gained without the worship of Kali, our Divine Mother", or, "One cannot be saved without accepting our Christian religion". This is pure dogmatism...One can rightly speak of God only after one has seen Him. The reality is one ans the same; the difference is in name and form. It is like water, called in different languages by different names, such as 'jal', 'pani', and so forth. There are three or four ghats on the lake. The Hindus who drank water at one place call it 'jal'. The Mussalmans at another place call it 'pani'. And the English at a third place call it 'water'. All three denote one and the same thing, the difference being in the name only. In the same way, some address the reality as 'Allah', some as 'God', some as 'Brahman', some as 'Kali', and others by such names as 'Rama', 'Jesus', 'Durga', 'Hari'.
---Extract from "The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna".
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