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<blockquote>Really, [the divergent opinions about the nature of God] are not contradictory. As a man realizes him, so does he express himself. If somehow one attains him, then one finds no contradiction.... Kabir [a fifteenth-century Hindu mystic] used to say: “The formless Absolute is my Father, and God with form is my Mother.”<ref>Ramakrishna, quoted in Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, trans., ''How to Know God'' (Hollywood, Calif.: Vedanta Press, 1981), p. 158.</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>Really, [the divergent opinions about the nature of God] are not contradictory. As a man realizes him, so does he express himself. If somehow one attains him, then one finds no contradiction.... Kabir [a fifteenth-century Hindu mystic] used to say: “The formless Absolute is my Father, and God with form is my Mother.”<ref>Ramakrishna, quoted in Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, trans., ''How to Know God'' (Hollywood, Calif.: Vedanta Press, 1981), p. 158.</ref></blockquote> | ||
== Final embodiment and ascension == | |||
Ramakrishna did not make his [[ascension]] at the conclusion of that life. He reincarnated in the United States for the final balancing of his karma through the [[violet flame]], was a student in the [[I AM Activity]], completed his training and his work there and made his ascension at the conclusion of this life. | Ramakrishna did not make his [[ascension]] at the conclusion of that life. He reincarnated in the United States for the final balancing of his karma through the [[violet flame]], was a student in the [[I AM Activity]], completed his training and his work there and made his ascension at the conclusion of this life. | ||