ॐ नमो भगवते श्रीरामकृष्णाय·Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramakrishnaya
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As 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…
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,…
ReadAt the Cossipore garden was played the last act of the Master’s life on the physical plane. On the eve of his exit from the arena of the world, the Master showed himself at his highest, and making Narendra Nath the fit instrument for the propagation of his ideas, entrusted to him the charge of…
ReadClose contact for so long with such burning renunciation and godliness made it impossible for the young disciples to return to the world. Though they were without resources, Surendra Nath Mitra, a householder disciple of the Master, came forward with the necessary pecuniary assistance and encouraged them to found a home where the brotherhood would…
ReadYou see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man, because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God. God is formless and…
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