“Knowledge leads to unity, and Ignorance to diversity.”
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
Saying 368
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)
“Knowledge leads to unity, but Ignorance to diversity.
So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.”
As quoted in Hindu Psychology : Its Meaning for the West (1946) by Swami Akhilananda, p. 204
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