“He who has realized God does not look upon a woman with the eye of lust; so he is not afraid of her.”

—  Ramakrishna

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 168
Context: He who has realized God does not look upon a woman with the eye of lust; so he is not afraid of her. He perceives clearly that women are but so many aspects of the Divine Mother. He worships them all as the Mother Herself.

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