Bhakta Or Jnani

"Once Ramakrishna Paramhansa called Swami Vivekananda and told him, ‘What do you think you fancy yourself as an intellectual? No, you are actually a bhakta. Outside you have the veneer of a jnani but you are actually a bhakta.’ He said, ‘Actually I am the reverse. People think I am a bhakta but I am a jnani.’

So try to be both, if you can’t be both – be one. Be a bhakta more than anything else because through bhakti all jnana will dawn. Here was a person, Ramakrishna Paramhansa, who could barely sign his name and when touched ‘that’ people from all around came to sit around him and partake of it. That is very, very important."

-- Sri M