Reality is emptiness.

When the question was raised whether the Buddha was an atheist, the Master said:

“He was no atheist; only he could not speak out his realizations. Do you know what ‘Buddha’ means?- To become one with ‘Bodha’, the ‘Supreme Intelligence-through deep meditation, to become Pure Intelligence Itself. The state of self-realization is something between ‘Asti’ and ‘Nasti’- ‘being’ and ‘non-being’. The ‘being’ and the ‘non-being’ are modifications of Prakriti. The Reality transcends them both.”

~ Bhagawan Sri Ramakrishna
(Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna, Chennai math publications, CHAPTER XVI JNANA, BHAKTI AND KARMA, 918)

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