Brother Tom writes: "Even then, She is still not apart from us....there is no chasing after Her down the road....."
This is the whole of it. Even during times when we feel completely seperate we want to try to remember the truth. And it is the blessed moments of serene awareness that build our convinction that Mother is always with us ... even though we mostly feel that we are following behind and Mother is beyond our reach.
Of course, Thakur would say that as a child of Mother we should demand that, if we are unable to keep up, that She pick us up in her arms and carry us!
What a wonderful world it will be, when we
can see the manifestation of Divinity,
amongst all creatures.
The highest achievement [in my humble opinion]
of Indian Philosophy is that of 'Advaita Vedanta'
Sri Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsadeva also recognized,
that man must live in the world. He alternated
between various states of consciousness...
that of the most devout and fervent Bhakta...
to the veritable manifestation of the Divine Mother.
One of my favorite quotes from the Gospel of
Sri Ramakrishna, eloquently expresses the
limitless love that God feels for His/Her
created entities.
"Think of Brahman, Existance - Knowledge - Bliss Absolute,
as a shoreless ocean. Through the cooling influence,
as it were, of the bhakta's love, the water has frozen
at places into blocks of ice. In other words, God now and then
assumes various forms for His lovers and reveals Himself
to them as a Person."
