Kathamrita Volume II - Swami Vivekananda

“The sun sheds light on the good as well as onthe wicked.“You may then ask, how do you explainsorrow, sin, restlessness and the like? Theanswer is that they only concern embodiedbeings. Brahman is above and beyond them.There is poison in the fangs of a snake, but thepoison doesn’t affect it – though when thesnake bites a creature, it dies.”Brahman is indescribable and impossible toverbalize [11] (the unknown and the unknowable)“What Brahman is cannot be described.Everything – the Vedas, the Puranas, theTantras and the six systems of philosophy –has been defiled, like the leavings of food. Forwhen one reads the scriptures, one must use thevocal organs and this causes them to be intouch with the mouth, so to speak. Thus theyhave all been defiled, like the leavings of food.The one exception is Brahman. No one in thisworld has yet been able to give proper andadequate expression to God the Absolute.”Vidyasagar (to his friends) — Oh, this isbeautiful. I must say I have learned somethingtoday.Sri Ramakrishna — A man had two sons. Heplaced both of them under the care of apreceptor to acquire the knowledge of