After a time the Master suddenly said to Adhar:

"Look here. All these are unreal—meetings, school, office, and everything else. God alone is the Substance, and all else is illusory. One should realize God with one's whole mind."

Adhar sat without speaking a word.

MASTER :

"All else is illusory. This moment the body is and the next moment it is not. One must make haste to realize God*.

"But you don't have to renounce everything. Live in the world the way the tortoise does.

The tortoise roams about in the water but keeps its eggs on land. Its whole mind is on the eggs.

* - 6 months after Adhar died from an accident.

Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna