ՀՏԵ শ্ৰীশ্রীরামকৃষ্ণ কথামৃত—৫ম ভাগ [ পরিশিষ্ট mere wish. The lowest and the most degraded characters become in one second saints at their command. They are the Teachers of all teachers, the highest manifestations of God through man. We cannot see God except through them. We cannot help worshipping them ; and indeed they are the only ones whom we are bound to worship. [ Bhakti-Yoga. আবার বলিতেছেন,—যতক্ষণ আমাদের মনুষ্যদেহ, ততক্ষণ আমরা ঈশ্বরের যদি পূজা করি, তবে একমাত্র অবতারপুরুষেরই করিতে হইবে । হাজার লম্বা লম্বা কথা কও, ঈশ্বরকে মহুযুরূপ ব্যতীত আর চিস্তাই হয় না। তোমার ক্ষুদ্র বুদ্ধি দ্বারা ঈশ্বরের স্বরূপ আবল-তাবল কি বলিতে চাও ? যাহা বলিলে, তাহার किहूद्दे মূল্য ań Mere froth As long as we are men we must worship Him in man and as man. Talk as you may, try as you may, you canuot think of God except as a man. You may delive great intellectual discourses on God and on all things under the Sun, become great rationalists and prove to your satisfaction that all these accounts of the Avataras of God as man, are nonsense. But let us come for a moment to practical commonsense. What is there behind this kind of remarkable intellect Zero ; nothing ; simply so much froth. When next you hear a man delivering a great intellectual lecture against this worship of the Avataras of God, get hold of him and ask him what his idea of God is, what he understands by “Omnipotence,” “Omnipresence” and all similar terms, beyond the spelling of the word. He really means nothing by them, he can not formulate as their meaning any idea unaffected by his own human nature ; , he is no better off in this matter than the man in the street who has not read a single book. [ Bhakti Yoga. 掺
