the Godhead...

The whole thing is to love God and taste His sweetness.
He is sweetness and the devotee is its enjoyer.

The
devotee drinks the sweet Bliss of God.

Further, God is the
lotus and the devotee the bee. The devotee sips the honey
of the lotus.

As a devotee cannot live without God, so also God cannot
live without His devotee.

Then the devotee becomes the
sweetness, and God its enjoyer.

The devotee becomes
the lotus, and God the bee.

It is the Godhead that has
become these two in order to enjoy Its own Bliss.

- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

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The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
by M. (Mahendranath Gupta)
Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Society, 1942