室利·罗摩克里希那：民族的理想
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中文
一个民族若要崛起，必须有崇高的理想。这一理想，当然是抽象的梵（Brahman）。然而，由于你们并非人人都能从抽象的理想中汲取鼓舞，你们需要一个具体的人格理想。而这，你们在室利·罗摩克里希纳（Ramakrishna）的人格身上已然获得。其他历史上的伟大人物之所以不能成为我们今日的理想，是因为他们的时代已然过去；而为使吠檀多（Vedanta）能够触及每一个人，必须有一位能与当今这个时代产生共鸣的人格。这一使命，在室利·罗摩克里希纳身上得到了圆满实现。因此，你们现在应当将他置于每一个人面前。至于人们是将他视作一位圣者（Sadhu）还是一位阿凡达（Avatara），这并不重要。
他曾说，他还会再次与我们同在。那时，我想，他将归入离身解脱（Videha-mukti，即绝对解脱）。若你希望有所作为，就必须有这样一位本尊（Ishta-devata），或如基督教民族所称的"守护天使"。我有时想象，不同的民族有着各自不同的本尊，而这些本尊彼此之间正在争夺主导地位。有时我设想，这样的本尊可能会变得无力再为某个民族提供护佑。
English
In order that a nation may rise, it must have a high ideal. Now, that ideal is, of course, the abstract Brahman. But as you all cannot be inspired by an abstract ideal, you must have a personal ideal. You have got that, in the person of Shri Ramakrishna. The reason why other personages cannot be our ideal now is, that their days are gone; and in order that Vedanta may come to everyone, there must be a person who is in sympathy with the present generation. This is fulfilled in Shri Ramakrishna. So now you should place him before everyone. Whether one accepts him as a Sadhu or an Avatara does not matter.
He said he would come once more with us. Then, I think, he will embrace Videha - mukti (Absolute Emancipation). If you wish to work, you must have such an Ishta - devata, or Guardian Angel, as the Christian nations call it. I sometimes imagine that different nations have different Ishta - devatas, and these are each trying for supremacy. Sometimes I fancy, such an Ishta - devata becomes powerless to do service to a nation.
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