Kathamrita Volume II - Swami Vivekananda

idding.Sri Ramakrishna (to the devotees) — At thetime (of spiritual practices) when I meditated Iused to see a real person sitting close to mewith a trident in his hand. He threatened tostrike me with the trident if I didn’t fix mymind at the lotus feet of God, to pierce mychest and kill me if my mind was not fixed onGod.Union of the Absolute [2] and the phenomenalworld [3] – Purusha and Prakriti – Yoga ofDiscrimination [4]“Sometimes the Divine Mother would put mein such a state that my mind would descendfrom the Absolute to the phenomenal world. Atother times it would rise from the phenomenalworld to the Absolute.“When my mind descended to the phenomenalworld, I would meditate on Rama and Sita dayand night. And I would constantly have theimage of their forms before me. I used to goaround holding Ramlala [5] . Sometimes I wouldgive him a bath and other times feed him. Andyet other times I was absorbed in the mood ofRadha and Krishna. I would see their formsconstantly before me. And then again my mindwould be filled with the mood of Gauranga –he represents the harmonization of the two