In plain words
Vivekānanda goes to him and asks. ‘Swāmī! Have you seen God?’ ‘Yes, I have seen Him,’ he said. ‘Then why is He not seen by me?’ Then Rāmakṛṣṇa spoke! O student, in the world of today people weep for their wives, they weep for their children, they weep for money. But do they weep for God? When they leave everything and weep for God, then God is seen. How much we suffer for this world, which is of Prakṛti, passing and impermanent! Do we suffer for God even a thousandth part of this? On some day or other we go to the shrine room, say our prayers and go off.
The care there is on earth for keeping sons and friends, for business and talk, the care that ever arises for wealth and grain, pleasures, fame and gain: were that care on earth for seeing the lotus feet of Nanda's son, what care would there be of the journey to the door of Yama's dreadful house, O Lord!
How much we suffer for this wealth, grain, fame and gain! How much we suffer for kinsmen, friends and the like! Amid these sufferings, do we suffer even for a single moment for God? No. For hours, days, years we suffer for the world. If once, for a single moment, you think of God with all your heart, surely He appears that very moment. God does not need days, weeks, years. Steady feeling alone is enough. Win that vision. That itself is samyak dṛṣṭi, he said. In that very samyak dṛṣṭi Vivekānanda too merged.
This is not something someone gives; it is knowing oneself and being offered up. It is present everywhere. Many children know this. Air is present everywhere. Those children take balloons to play with and blow air into them. The balloon is full of air. The air outside has no connection with the air in the balloon. If the air in this balloon is to join the air that is everywhere, what must you do? A clever one says: if your balloon's air is to go and join the air that is everywhere, ‘Blow, blow,’ he said.