The Master tied his disciples with a cord of love. Sometimes they would share their sweet memories with each other. Many years later (15 August 1915) Swami Premananda wrote to Swami Abhedananda who was then preaching Vedanta in America: “Do you remember when you and I were together at the Cossipore garden house, and the Master remarked, ‘Your relationship is between Self and Self.’ Do you remember what else he said? He said: ‘You are like monkeys; and I am the monkey-trainer holding in my hand the ropes tied around your waists. The monkey-trainer pulls the rope if the monkeys become too troublesome.’ Please bear in your mind, brother, that we are monkeys in his hand.” (Source: God Lived with Them)
- O Arjuna! the Lord dwells in the hearts of all beings, causing all beings to revolve like puppets by His illusive power (Maya). (BG 18.61)