CALL HIM A MAN, OR GOD OR AN INCARNATION, JUST AS YOU PLEASE - ACCEPT HIM EACH IN YOUR OWN LIGHT

Remember these few points:

1. We are Sannyasins, who have given up everything — Bhakti, and Mukti, and enjoyment, and all.

2. To do the highest good to the world, everyone down to the lowest — this is our vow. Welcome Mukti or hell, whichever comes of it.

3. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa came for the good of the world. Call him a man, or God, or an Incarnation, just as you please. Accept him each in your own light.

- Swami Vivekananda
1894.The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Epistles - Second Series/XLV Brothers