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In plain words

Sri Ramakrishna: You see, pleasure and pain belong to having a body. The Chandi of Kavikankan tells how Kalubir was thrown into prison, and a stone was laid upon his chest. Yet Kalubir was a son born of the Mother's boon. Take a body, and there is pleasure and pain to undergo. Srimanta was a great devotee, and the Mother loved his mother Khullana so dearly. Yet what perils befell that same Srimanta! They led him to the place of execution to be beheaded. A woodcutter, a great devotee, was granted the vision of the Mother; and She loved him so much, showed him so much grace. But his woodcutter's work never came to an end! He had to go on cutting that wood to eat. In the prison Devaki had the vision of the Lord, four-armed, bearing conch, discus and mace. But the prison did not end!