Letter #06 Sri Ramakrishna Saranam


Dear,

        I received the postcard and M.O.(Money Order) of rupees 10 and the few lines written on the M.O. by you.

        Four of us went from Purulia to Janai Ashram on the 5th of July and returned on the 15th of July after completion of the festival. The festival was carried out beautifully and in a organized way by the grace of Sri Thakur and Sri Ma.

        I will stay here for one and half months and then go back to Janai again. Let's see what the divine wish of Sri Thakur is.

        This world which is perceptible by the senses - does it have its existence outside? Or -its existence is in the mind? Because in the dreaming state the mind is divided into two parts: subject and object. The subjective mind becomes the observer of the objective mind. The observer is more true than the observed, the observed may be many but the observer is one and undivided.

        'I know the pot'. In this phenomena, the knower of pot is 'I', but that 'the pot is known to me', is also what I know. That means, my knowledge about the pot is also known to me. Then who is this second 'I', the observer or the self-manifested Brahman? In this way, while discriminating 'not this, not this' we find the real 'I'. This is called the discrimination between the Self (real) and non-Self (the unreal). With this, where and how does the existence of the unreal 'I' remain while you are in deep sleep?

        I am well. Know my best wishes.