“The Incarnation is the play of the Absolute as man. Do you know how the Absolute plays as man? It is like the rushing down of water from a big roof through a pipe; the power of Satchidananda – nay, Satchidananda Itself – descends through the conduit of a human form as water descends through the pipe.” – Sri Ramakrishna

(Swami Nikhilananda, trans., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1978; c1942, 359.)