"The Master said: 'Everything that exists is God.' The pupil understood it
literally, but not in the true spirit. While he was passing through a street, he
met with an elephant. The driver (mâhut) shouted aloud from his high place,
'Move away, move away!' The pupil argued in his mind, 'Why should I move away? I
am God, so is the elephant also God. What fear has God of Himself?' Thinking
thus he did not move. At last the elephant took him up by his trunk, and dashed
him aside. He was severely hurt, and going back to his Master, he related the
whole adventure. The Master said, 'All right, you are God. The elephant is God
also, but God in the shape of the elephant-driver was warning you also from
above. Why did you not pay heed to his warnings?'"
Sri Ramakrishna
in F. Max Muller
_Ramakrishna: His Life And Sayings_, 15
Longmans, Green, And Co., London & New York, 1898, p. 102
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