ॐ नमो भगवते श्रीरामकृष्णाय·Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramakrishnaya
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The One born as Rama of incomparable greatness in all the three worlds, the very life of Janaka’s daughter; who, though himself beyond the world lo, did not give up doing good to it; the current of whose love flowed ever unchecked down even to a Chandala; and whose body of supreme knowledge was enveloped by devotion…
ReadThe mental states derived from Sattva, those from Rajas and those from Tamas verily proceed from Me. But I am not in them; they are in Me. Deluded by these three states, the modifications of the Gunas, all this world is ignorant of Me, who am beyond them and changeless. —Gita VII. 12. & 13. 1.…
Read(THE SPIRITUAL MOODS, PROFOUND MEDITATIONS AND SPIRITUAL VISIONS) Listen again to my supreme word, the profoundest. You are dear to me; therefore, I will tell you what is good for you. —Gita XVIII 64. It will not be an exaggeration to say that, before the Master became well known, the people of Calcutta, both educated…
ReadSome look upon It as strange, Others speak of It as strange, Others again hear of It as strange; Though hearing (seeing and speaking) no one Knows It directly. —Gita II. 29 1. The Master felt annoyed when addressed as a spiritual teacher, a father of a patriarch. How then is the mood of the spiritual…
ReadIgnorant of My supreme nature as the great Lord of all beings, foolish people slight Me who am in a human body. — Gita, IX. 11. We find the mood of the spiritual teacher manifested in the Master from his childhood, though, it must be admitted, that its full manifestation took place in his youth…
ReadVeiled by the ignorance consisting of the three Gunas I am not manifest to all (except to some of My devotees). The deluded world does not know Me, the unborn and the immutable. —Gita VII. 25. 1. It is not by mere wish that man becomes a spiritual teacher or a leader A special manifestation of…
ReadI shall now tell you, O best of the Kurus, the principal forms which I have become and which are unknown to men, (for) there is no end to those forms. —Gita X. 19 1. It takes a long time for a big flower to blossom We have already said that the gradual manifestation of…
ReadI am the Self residing in the hearts of all creatures; I am the beginning, the middle and the end of beings. —Gita X. 20. 1. In the company of the Master, Mathur celebrated the worship of Mother Durga at his Janbazar house There was great rejoicing that year on the occasion of the worship of…
ReadI reside in the hearts of all. From Me come memory and knowledge and also their loss. It is I alone who am demonstrated by all the Vedas. I am the founder of the institutions for the handing down of the meaning of the Vedanta and am the knower of the Vedas. —Gita. XV 15…
ReadThis is the Fourth Part of Sri Ramakrishna The Great Master and is the second half of “AS THE SPIRITUAL TEACHER”. Acquainted so far with the middle part of the life of Sri Ramakrishna, the reader may ask why we have adopted an unchronological method and why the story of the perfected state of the Master’s life…
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