05/08/2025
Sri Ramakrishna: “As long as you have egotism, you cannot gain Knowledge. You also can’t attain Liberation. You will have to come again and again to this world. …
Guru, father, and doer – these three words prick my body like thorns. I am His son, His eternal child. How can I be a father? God is the doer; I do nothing. He is the operator; I am the machine.
If anyone calls me guru, I say to him: “What guru? Away with you, rascal!” There is no guru other than Sat-chit-ananda (Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute). Except for Him, there is no shelter. He alone is the pilot that takes one across the sea of the world.
(To Vijay) It is very difficult to be a spiritual teacher. It is harmful for him to see a dozen men accept him as guru. Crossing one leg over the other and saying: “Listen to what I say” - is a very bad attitude. Such a person gets that way with the respect of only a dozen people. People will at most say: “Ah, how well Vijay Babu speaks! He is a great man of knowledge!”
I say: “Don’t think this way”. As for me, I say to the Divine Mother: “Mother, You are the mechanic, I am Your instrument. I work as You make me work; I speak as You make me speak””.
("Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita" word to word translation by Sri Dharm Pal Gupta, V1, Section XII, Chapter VIII, “Another Visit To The Sinthi Brahmo Samaj”, 19 October 1884, pp. 292-3)
