“The whole world is a dream; even this (the waking state) is a dream … What you dreamt last night does not exist now.”

— Sarada Devi

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 302]

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Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna 1853–1920

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