Kathamrita Volume II - Swami Vivekananda

Reasoning thus, he reaches the Absolute andsees that God has become everything anddwells in all – embodied beings, the universe,and the twenty-four cosmic principles.“One must curdle milk and churn it to extractbutter. However, when you have taken thebutter out, you observe that the butter indeedbelongs to the buttermilk and the buttermilkbelongs to the butter. The bark of a tree belongsto the pith and the pith belongs to the bark.”The Pundit (to Bhudhar, smiling) — Did youunderstand? It is very difficult to comprehend.Sri Ramakrishna — When there is butter, theremust also be buttermilk. If you think butter, theidea of buttermilk also comes to mind – for thereason that there can be no butter withoutbuttermilk. Therefore, when you accept theAbsolute [30] , you have also to accept thephenomenal world [31] . It is a case ofinvolution and evolution. One attains this stateafter having the direct realization of bothaspects of God: Personal and Impersonal. ThePersonal God is symbolic of Consciousness andthe Impersonal God is the Indivisible Sat-chitananda.“God indeed has become everything.Therefore, ‘the world is a mansion of joy’ forthe vijnani. For the jnani, however, this world