Girish: “Well sir, which way is more difficult: to renounce the world painfully, or to call upon Him while living in the household?”
Sri Ramakrishna (to M.): “Don’t you know what the Gita says? One truly attains the Lord, if one attends to worldly work in a detached spirit, if one lives the worldly life after knowing everything to be illusory.
People, who renounce the world painfully, belong to an inferior class.
Do you know what a householder jnani is like? It is as if he is in a glass house, from where he can see inside as well as outside”.
Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna
(“Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita” word to word translation by Sri Dharm Pal Gupta, V2, Section XXVI, Ch. II, “Sri Ramakrishna in Cossipore Garden House”, 16 April, 1886)
