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2 Ibid. 27.
3 Ibid. 37-40.
life. His union with the Divine was a living experience for him as his deity who acted as the power of the Divine. Although married, he never led his married life; he looked upon his wife as the Divine Mother, adored her as his Divine Mother and tested his spiritual fitness by overcoming his personal relations with her. He belonged essentially to the bhaktischool as he believed that bhakti or devotion is the most useful and powerful form of worship and that it serves as the only real means of attaining salvation or mokṣa.
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Ramakṛṣṇa believed that there is only one Ultimate Reality from which everything is born, by which everything exists, and to which everything returns, at its end. Whatever exists is Brahman in essence. Brahman is his God. Brahman is without attributes, without motion, immovable, unshakable, firm as the mount Meru.' He addresses the Brahman as God or Lord and says that the Lord is the unseen cause of all things. He dwells in all things as the inner essence of everything. He is present even in tiger, in wicked persons, in the ugliest things of the world but in various forms.3 He exists in serpent, in poison, in the judge, and in the culprit. He exists in everything that exists. The existence of everything is due to Him; however, there are differences in His manifestation in them all. The
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1 Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna, Saying No. 837. Published by Sri Ramakrishna Math.
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