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🌺 A certain well-known rich man of Calcutta visited Sri Ramakrishna and in the course of conversation with him had recourse to many a tortuous argument. Sri Ramakrishna said: "What is the good of useless discussion? Go on calling on Him with a simple and believing heart and that will do you good". This advice was not taken in good part by the arrogant visitor, who made the rude remark: "Have you yourself been able to know everything?" Sri Ramakrishna with folded hands and great humility replied: “True, I have not been able to know anything, but then a broomstick, though unclean itself, will cleanse the place it sweeps".

(“Words of the Master: Selected precepts of Sri Ramakrishna”, compiled by Swami Brahmananda, Miscellaneous, 1, p. 79)