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Sri Ramakrishna: Certainly one can. But, as I said, one must keep the company of holy men and pray always. One must weep for Him. When the dirt of the mind is washed away, one sees Him. The mind is an iron needle smeared with clay; God is the lodestone: unless the mud is gone, the needle cannot be drawn to the magnet. Weeping washes the mud off the needle, the mud being lust, anger, greed, the sinful mind and the worldly mind. As soon as the mud is washed off, the magnet will draw the needle; that is, one will see God. Only when the heart is pure is He attained. When a man has fever and his body is full of morbid humours, what good will quinine do? Why shouldn't it be possible in the world? There is that same company of holy men, prayer with tears, living now and then in solitude. Unless you put a little fence round a seedling by the footpath, the goats and cows eat it up.