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Friday, May 6, 2022

Sayings of Ramakrishna 153


As the moon is the uncle of every child, so God is the Father and Guide of the whole of Humanity. (The children in Bengal call the moon their "maternal uncle".) 



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  1. JP2GiannaTMay 7, 2022 at 7:52 PM

    It's interesting that it's a masculine name with a feminine modifier on it.

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    1. Liam MilburnMay 7, 2022 at 8:39 PM

      I don't know Indian myths as well as I'd like, but my understanding is that because the Moon is seen to both rise from and set into the ocean, and Lakshmi was born of the ocean, they are like brother and sister. Now Lakshmi is often called the "Mother of the World", and so the Moon is the maternal uncle of the world. Ramakrishna enjoys such plays on literal and figurative meanings.

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