Kathamrita Volume II - Swami Vivekananda

magistrate. (All laugh.)All are silent for awhile.Jogin (smiling, to Girish and other devotees) —He (Thakur) does not accept Narendra’sopinions any more.Sri Ramakrishna (smiling) — Once I said toNarendra that the chatak bird drinks no waterexcept rainwater. Narendra said that the chatakdrinks ordinary water too. Then I said to theDivine Mother, ‘Mother, are my words nottrue?’ I was terribly worried. Narendra came onanother day. He saw some birds fluttering inthe room. Seeing them he said, ‘There they are!There they are!’ I asked, ‘What?’ He replied,‘The same chatak birds.’ I saw that they wereonly bats. Since then I don’t accept what hesays. (All laugh.)Is vision of the form a delusion of the mind?Sri Ramakrishna — Narendra said to me inJadu Mallick’s garden, ‘The visions of God thatyou see are all hallucinations.’ Amazed, I saidto him, ‘But they speak to me!’ Narendra said,‘Such delusions happen.’ Then I went to theDivine Mother and implored Her with tears,‘Mother, what is this? Is it all false? Narendrasaid so.’ The Divine Mother then showed meConsciousness, Indivisible Consciousness, andsaid, ‘If your visions are illusions, why do they