ॐ नमो भगवते श्रीरामकृष्णाय·Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramakrishnaya
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Sri Ramakrishna had by now practised all the different phases of devotion laid down in the scriptures of Bhakti, namely, Shanta, Dasya, Sakhya, Vatsalya, and Madhura, and realized the same goal through each one of them. His spiritual experience, hither to gathered, had many forms. Sometimes he willed himself into them, at other times the…
ReadAs a result of the Advaita realization the mind of Sri Ramakrishna had acquired a wonderful breadth, accepting all forms of religion as so many ways of reaching perfection. Towards the end of 1866, soon after his recovery from dysentery, Sri Ramakrishna was attracted by the faith and devotion of a Sufi mystic, Govinda Ray…
ReadAs already stated, Sri Ramakrishna became very weak after the attack of dysentery. About the month of May in the year 1867 he started for Kamarpukur accompanied by Hriday and Bhairavi Brahmani for a change. The Master stayed at Kamarpukur for six or seven months. It was a great relaxation for him to enter into…
ReadAbout four years before the incidents narrated towards the close of the last chapter-in 1868- Mathur and his wife arranged for a pilgrimage to Northern India and wanted Sri Ramakrishna to accompany them. At their earnest request the Master consented to be one of the party. They started on 27 January, and halted for a…
ReadSri Ramakrishna would find delight in meeting the leaders of thought and other prominent men of his time and in studying the spiritual condition of their life. In 1875 he saw Keshab Chandra Sen, who was the greatest figure of the Brahmo movement of the time. Hearing of his piety, Sri Ramakrishna wished to meet…
ReadSri Ramakrishna was now burning with a tremendous desire to meet his devotees – the favoured children of the Divine Mother-to whom he might pass his realizations for the good of humanity and the world. About this he would say later: ‘There was no limit to the yearning I had then. During the day-time I…
ReadTomorrow is Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa’s 182nd birth anniversary and somehow I accidentally found myself entering into a discussion with a youngster of almost my age on the question whether Sri Ramakrishna is an Avatar? The first thing about the argument is what his contemporaries and later spiritual leaders have felt about him. Bhairavi Brahmani, his…
ReadThe vision of Sri Ramakrishna that a galaxy of pure and earnest souls imbued with the lofty spirit of renunciation and service would receive his message of universal love and harmony and carry it to humanity soon came to be materialized. One by one these heroic souls who were subsequently transformed into mighty spiritual figures…
ReadWe have already seen that Sri Ramakrishna’s realization lifted him above all sex-consciousness and enabled him to approach men and women with the innocence and simplicity of a child. He looked upon every woman as the living embodiment of the Divine Mother. Women devotees who flocked to him for spiritual guidance and help in God-realization…
ReadThe closing years of Sri Ramakrishna’s life, though full of pathos, were as sublime and graceful as the mellowed beauty of a glorious sunset. Dakshineswar, once a silent and solitary retreat, was now the resort of hundreds of earnest souls who crowded his small room from morning till night to receive spiritual guidance. Sri Ramakrishna,…
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