Tales and Parables of Sri Ramakrishna

Tales and Parables of Sri Ramakrishna
one be not affiliated with any church or religious
organisation.
Later on, the desire arose in his mind to follow
different paths of Hinduism through the rituals
prescribed by various teachers for the vision of
God. And it may be remarked here that whenever
he followed any particular method of discipline, he
poured his entire heart into it.
He was a great scientist in the realm of spirituality.
He followed to the very letter the disciplines and
austerities laid down by his religion. Like all true
scientists, he knew that the success of an
experiment depends upon the scrupulous
observance of its laws. He did not spare himself at
all in that direction. Purity became the very breath
of his life. Nothing could persuade him to deviate,
even by a hair's breadth, from the path of truth in
thought, deed and word. To learn humility he
would go to the house of a pariah, at dead of night,
and clean the dirty places with his long hair. He
knew that the two great impediments of spiritual
life were lust and gold. He looked upon all women
as the manifestation of the Blessed Mother of the
Universe and his body would writhe in pain if he
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