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Sri Ramakrishna: Brahman is like the sky. In Brahman there is no change. It is like fire, which has no colour at all. But through Sakti He has become many. Sattva, rajas and tamas: these three gunas are the gunas of Sakti alone. If you throw a white dye into fire it will look white; throw red dye and it will look red; throw black dye and the fire will look black. Brahman is beyond sattva, rajas and tamas, the three gunas. What He is cannot be told in words; He is past all speech. What remains after one goes on saying "Not this, not this," and where there is bliss: that is Brahman.