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David Granger wrote:
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> Hello, fellow Salinger lovers! I need help. In one of JD's books (I'm
> thinking it's Franny and Zooey) near the beginning, there is mention of
> quotations pasted to a door and some of the quotations are included in the
> text. One of them comes from an Eastern religious text and ends with the
> "holy man" telling a questioner something along the lines of "Don't you
> think that, by whatever name they call him, god knows that they are speaking
> to him?" Can anyone help me out with the specifics here?

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"Sir, we ought to teach the people that they are doing wrong in
worshipping the images and pictures in the temple."
Ramakrishna: "That's the way with you Calcutta people:  you want to
teach and preach.  You want to give millions when you are beggars
yourselves...Do you think God does not know that he is being worshipped
in the images and pictures?  If a worshipper should make a mistake, do
you not think God will know his intent?"

--"The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna."

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