Once, Hriday3 brought a bull-calf here. I saw, one day, that he had tied it with a rope in the garden4, so that it might graze there. I asked him, "Hriday, why do you tic the calf there every day?" "Uncle" he said, "I am going to send the calf to our village. When it grows strong I shall yoke it to the plough." As soon as I heard these words I was stunned to think: "How inscrutable is the play of the Divine Maya! Kamarpukur5 and Sihore6 are so far away from Calcutta! This poor calf must go all that way. Then it will grow, and at length it will be yoked to the plough. This is indeed the world! This is indeed Maya!” I fell unconscious. Only after a long time did I regain consciousness.
3
A
nephew of Sri Ramakrishna who attended on the Master for a long time.
4
Temple garden of
Dakshineswar where Sri Ramakrishna lived.
5
A village in Bengal,
where Sri Ramakrishna was born.
6
Native village of Hriday.