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every point in which you believe. Be ready!"
Ramakrishna's followers were very much afraid. They knew Keshav Chandra was a great logician; poor Ramakrishna would not be able to answer anything. But Ramakrishna was very joyful, he danced. He said, "I have been waiting all this time. When Keshav Chandra comes that will be a great day of joy!"
His disciples said, "What are you saying? That will be a day of great sadness, because you cannot argue with him."
Ramakrishna said, "Wait. Who is going to argue with him? I don't need to argue. Let him come."
But his disciples were shaky, very shaky, very much afraid that their master was going to be defeated, completely crushed. They knew Keshav Chandra. In that century there was no parallel to Keshav Chandra's intelligence in this country.
And Keshav Chandra came with one hundred of his topmost disciples to see the argument, the debate, the challenge. Ramakrishna was standing on the road to receive him, far away from the temple where he used to live. And he hugged Keshav Chandra. And Keshav Chandra felt a little embarrassed, and that embarrassment went on growing.
Ramakrishna took his hand in his hand and took him inside. He said, "I have been waiting and waiting for years. Why did you not come before?"
Keshav Chandra said, "He seems to be a strange man, seems not to be afraid at all. Do you understand? I have come here for a discussion!"
Ramakrishna said, "Of course."
So they sat near the temple by the side of the Ganges, a beautiful place, under a tree.
And Ramakrishna said, "Start."
So Keshav Chandra asked him, "What do you say about God?"
Ramakrishna said, "Have I to say anything about God? Can't you see God in my eyes?"
Keshav Chandra looked a little puzzled -- "What kind of argument is this?"
And Ramakrishna said, "Can't you feel God in my hand? Come closer, boy."
And Keshav Chandra said, "What kind of argument...?"
He had been in many debates, he had defeated many great scholars, and this villager... In Hindi the word for idiot is gamar, but it actually means the villager. gaon means village, and gamar means
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