A man was sitting in the shade of a Wishing Tree.
First, he wished to be a king, and in an instant he was a king.
The next moment he wished to have a charming woman, and the woman was instantly by his side.
But then he thought to himself, "What if a tiger came and devoured me?" and alas! in an instant he was in the jaws of a tiger!
God is like that Wishing Tree: whoever thinks in God's presence that he is destitute and poor will remain so; but the one who believes that the Lord fulfils all his needs, will receive everything from Him.
Notes:
The "Wishing Tree" is the Kalpa-vriksha, a standard item in Indian mythology (and many others).
Like many such "magic" items, however, it has a hidden danger; "be careful what you wish for..."
There are traces here of the so-called "Law of Attraction," but I suspect that Sri Ramakrishna would have found many modern statements of the LOA shallow and self-serving.
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