Daily Inspiration Quote by Ramakrishna

Ramakrishna’s line lands like a spiritual fact-check: reality is noisy with competing narratives, and your job is ruthless triage. The power is in the pairing of “mixture” with a clean imperative. He doesn’t deny the allure of make-believe; he treats it as a structural feature of worldly life. That’s classic Ramakrishna: devotional, practical, and unsentimental about the mind’s talent for self-enchantment.

The intent isn’t to scold imagination so much as to warn against confusing mood, status, and social theater with what actually liberates. “Make-believe” here isn’t children’s play; it’s the adult versions: ego stories, religious pageantry mistaken for transformation, the comforting myth that tomorrow’s success or someone else’s approval will finally steady you. The subtext is an ethic of discernment (viveka) in a culture where spirituality could be both intense and performative. Nineteenth-century Bengal was a churn of reform movements, colonial pressures, and debates between Western rationalism and inherited devotion. Ramakrishna, who spoke in parables and homely images, offers a third way: not argument, but sorting.

The rhetorical move is sharp because it’s asymmetric. Truth is something you “take,” like medicine or food; make-believe is something you “discard,” like waste. No negotiation, no blend. It quietly asserts that clarity is an action, not a belief. The world will keep generating illusion on its own; liberation requires editing.