Kathamrita Volume II - Swami Vivekananda

to be a deep well and one’s relatives asvenomous snakes.”Mani — Sir, there is so much suffering in theworld.Sri Ramakrishna — It is the suffering of hell –from the moment of one’s very birth! Don’tyou see what trouble it is to have a wife andchildren?Mani — Yes, sir. And you also said that thosepeople (who have not entered family life) owenothing to the world and expect nothing fromit. Others remain entangled in the world tosatisfy their expectations and carry out theirobligations.Sri Ramakrishna — Have you observedNiranjan? His attitude is, ‘Take what is yours,and give me what is mine’ – that’s all. He hasno further relationship with the world. He hasno attachment to it.“Indeed ‘lust and greed’ is worldly life. Justsee, if one has money, one wishes to keep it.”Mani bursts out laughing. Thakur laughs too.Mani — One calculates so much before takingthe money out. (Both of them laugh.) But yousaid at Dakshineswar that one lives in the worldvery differently if one has gone beyond the