Kathamrita Volume II - Swami Vivekananda

heart are cut and all doubts vanish.His earlier story – visit to Krishnakishore’s house –Thakur’s state of a vijnaniSri Ramakrishna — Yes. A ship was sailing onthe ocean. Suddenly all its iron joints, nails,and screws began to fall out. It was passing amound of magnetic stone, so all the iron beganto loosen.“I used to visit Krishnakishore’s house. Oneday when I went to his house, he asked me,‘Why do you chew betel leaf?’ I said, ‘If I feellike it, I will chew betel-leaf, look at myself inthe mirror, or dance naked among a thousandfemales.’ Krishnakishore’s wife scolded him,saying, ‘You don’t know how to talk to people!What have you said to Ramakrishna?’“In this state [of vijnana], passions like lust,anger and the rest are burnt up, though thephysical body remains the same. One looks justlike anybody else. But inside one has becomehollow and absolutely pure.”A Devotee — Does the body last after Godrealization?Sri Ramakrishna — Yes, in the case of a fewpeople, the body remains alive to do somework – to instruct mankind. Sins vanish with adip in the Ganges and one attains liberation.But one is not cured of one’s blindness. Of