RamakrishnaРамакришна

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Ramakrishna: His Life and Sayings (1898), Sayings 215 and 288 (also 19), quoted together in Müller's introduction.

Two of Ramakrishna's sayings as Max Müller prints them, joined: 'God is in all men, but all men are not in God: that is the reason why they suffer' (215) and 'As a lamp does not burn without oil, so man cannot live without God' (288). Tolstoy changes the oil to fire: «Как лампа не может гореть без огня». The entry is word for word his Thoughts of Wise Men (1903), 22 February, signed «Браминская мудрость (Рамакришна)», one of the 22 days Tolstoy sent late; the Jubilee commentary (vol. 40) says the Ramakrishna of those days was translated from the German journal Theosophischer Wegweiser (1902-1903), not found online, so whether the fire is Tolstoy's or the German translator's is not known. The printed editions of the Circle signed it «Браминская мудрость»; «Рамакришна» is the Jubilee editors' addition. Ramakrishna taught in Bengali; Müller printed the sayings in English with the help of Ramakrishna's disciples (he names Vivekananda and the editor of the Brahmavadin), and the Bengali was not traced.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Râmakrishna: His Life and Sayings (1898), Saying 297 (compare 225).

Ramakrishna's saying as Max Müller prints it (no. 297), without the tigers: 'As the rain-water falling upon the roof of a house flows down to the ground through spouts grotesquely shaped like the tiger's head, thus seeming to come out of tigers' mouths, while in reality it descends from the sky; even so are the holy instructions that come out of the mouths of godly men, which seem to be uttered by those men themselves, while in reality they proceed from the throne of God.' Tolstoy keeps the image and the sense; the spouts are plain gutters («по желобам»), and 'the throne of God' is «от бога» (from God). The Circle repeats word for word Tolstoy's Thoughts of Wise Men (1903), 19 September, one of the 22 days he sent late, whose Ramakrishna the Jubilee commentary (vol. 40) says he translated from the German journal Theosophischer Wegweiser (1902-1903); that journal was not found online, so the cuts may be the German translator's. Saying 225 is a variant (the spouts shaped like a tiger, a cow, or a bull). Ramakrishna taught in Bengali; the Bengali was not traced. Tolstoy used the saying again, shortened, in «Изречения мыслителей разных стран и разных веков» (Jubilee vol. 40), signed «По Рамакришне».

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Râmakrishna: His Life and Sayings (1898), Sayings 177 and 191.

Two of Ramakrishna's sayings as Max Müller prints them. Tolstoy keeps the images and changes the sense of each: 'when the Divinity in thee increases, the weakness of humanity in thee will vanish' becomes «так отпадут от тебя твои слабости, когда начнет расти в тебе сознание бога» (so your weaknesses will fall from you when the consciousness of God begins to grow in you); 'the darkness of centuries' becomes «в продолжение тысячелетий мрак наполнял пространство» (for thousands of years darkness filled a space); and 'the accumulated ignorances and misdoings of innumerable births vanish before the single glance of the Almighty's gracious look' becomes «Так и твоя душа: как бы долго она ни была поглощена мраком, она тотчас вся осветится, как только бог откроет в ней глаза свои» (so your soul, however long darkness swallowed it, lights up wholly at once as soon as God opens his eyes in it): the many births go, and God's glance from outside becomes his eyes opening within the soul. The Circle repeats Thoughts of Wise Men (1903), 30 November, with three changes: «Листья» (leaves) becomes «Лепестки» (petals), Max Müller's word; «Так же» becomes «Так»; «просветлеет» becomes «осветится». The Jubilee commentary (vol. 40) says the two sayings of 30 November were translated by Tolstoy from the German journal Theosophischer Wegweiser, no. 9, June 1903, pp. 249–251; that issue was not found online (archive.org holds the volume for 1905–06), so whether the changes are Tolstoy's or the German translator's is not known. The printed editions of the Circle signed it «Браминская мудрость»; the Jubilee editors added «Рамакришна». Ramakrishna taught in Bengali; Max Müller printed the sayings in English as his disciples collected them, and the Bengali was not traced.