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In plain words

Sri Ramakrishna: Yes, I have heard that there is rebirth. How can we understand God's works with our little minds? Many have said it, so I cannot disbelieve it. Bhishma was about to give up his body. He lay on his bed of arrows, and the Pandavas all stood by with Sri Krishna. They saw tears streaming from Bhishma's eyes. Arjuna said to Sri Krishna, "Brother, here is a wonder! Our grandsire, Bhishma himself, truthful, master of his senses, wise, one of the eight Vasus, he too is weeping from maya at the time of his death." When Sri Krishna told Bhishma of this, he said, "Krishna, You know very well that that is not why I am weeping! When I think that even the Pandavas, whose charioteer is God Himself, have no end to their sorrows and dangers, I weep at the thought that I have not understood God's works at all."