On his fourth visit, M. found Sri Ramakrishna in his room surrounded by a group of young men. As soon as M. came in the room, the Master laughed and said to them: “There! He has come again.” Then he explained the reason for his laughter: “A man once fed a peacock with a pill of opium at four o‘clock in the afternoon. The next day, exactly at that time, the peacock came back. It had felt the intoxication of the drug and returned just in time to have another dose.” For the remaining four and a half years of the Master’s life, M. returned for dose after dose of this divine intoxicant — direct association with God Incarnate — and then shared it freely with other seekers of God. At the beginning of each volume of the Bengali Gospel, he quotes a verse from the Bhagavata: “O Lord, your words, like sweet nectar, refresh the afflicted. Your words, which poets have sung in verses, vanquish the sins of the worldly. Blessed are they who hear of you, and blessed indeed are they who speak of you. How great is their reward!” (Source: They Lived with God)
Dr. Sarkar listened to the songs attentively. When the singing was over, he said, “That’s a nice one—’Upon the Sea of Blissful Awareness’.”
At the sight of the doctor’s joy, Sri Ramakrishna said: “The son said to the father, ‘Father, you taste a little wine, and after that, if you ask me to give up drinking, I shall do so.’ After drinking the wine, the father said: ‘Son, you may give it up. I have no objection. But I am certainly not going to give it up myself!’ (The doctor and the others laugh.) (Source: Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna)