Attraction towards Flesh and Attraction towards Gold are One

Acharya Prashant

5 min readSep 26, 2019

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What is meant by ‘woman’ when Shri Ramakrishna says, “Souls enmeshed in worldliness cannot resist the temptation of ‘woman and gold’ and direct their minds to God, even though these things bring upon them a thousand humiliations.”

Acharya Prashant

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