Passage 12

In English

Once asked whether he had seen God. Ramakrishna replied that he was seeing God even at that moment. asked “In what form?” Ramakrishna said, “In your very form.” Pointing to his disciples, he added, “This , that … all are the embodiments of God. I am seeing God in all of you.” Unable to comprehend the implication of Ramakrishna’s words, asked, “, we are mere mortals. How can you consider us as divine?” Then Ramakrishna said, “Oh simpleton, you look at everybody from a physical point of view, but I see everyone from the point of view. Hence, all appear to me as divine.”