Ramakrishna, Hinduism, Philip Novak:
You may ask: “How, then, can we arrive at any explanation of naturally caused misery, human viciousness, pervasive unhappiness?” The answer is that these forms of suffering, which one sincerely struggles to overcome, are experienced by individual awareness but not by the very principle of awareness, which remains ever-free, ever-blissful. There is venom in the snake that may cause others to die or which may be used as a healing medicine, but this substance is neither poison nor medicine to the snake.
Ramakrishna, Hinduism, in Novak, Philip. The World’s Wisdom (S.41). HarperOne. Kindle-Version.
