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Monday, February 5, 2007

Ramakrishna ParamaHamsa- A great Yogi

 One of the great saint of India, who has given a jolt, to the bhakti cult in India in 19th century . In a word we can say that he is the seed of banyan tree, he grew and he expanded himself very tall and wide with innumerable roots. He was born just an ordinary poor boy in West bengal, in 1836 and his name was gadadhar chatterjee. He struggled a lot in his childhood. But he was born with lot of great samskaras and 90%completed effort to become a parama hamsa( highest order saint). He became , fortunately, the priest of Kali(godess kali) temple in calcutta. He treated the idol as real mother godess and worshipped . He used to see her and talk to her. He practiced lot of tantras too, to complete his spiritual journey. When he was worshipping jesus, he got the symtoms of jesus, his face shape resembled jesus. When he was worshipping Hanuman,(the monkey god), he got a tail to him and he could jump very long distances like a monkey. While doing some spiritual, kundalini type mystic practices, he got burnings , heat in his body. Then a sage totapuri came to rescue and helped him in those practices. Godess Kali advised him to have a guru for all these practices, and thus She proved that without a Guru you can not achieve perfection. He suggested a girl whom he is destined to marry, and he married her . She is Sarada devi. Ramakrishna treated her as his mother. Sarada devi was also a great saint.One more great thing he could accomplish in his life time is , gathering excellent deciples and carving Vivekananda who changed the bhakti cult like a whirl wind in his short span of life . Entire world and India has seen at him with lot of astonishment and reverence. Later, vivekananda preached all over america and europe and started Ramakrishna missions in india and abroad. Now these missions are serving the mankind just like red cross societies.
The first dialogue between vivekananda and Ramakrishna was very famous and useful.
Vivekananda( then Naren) asked " Have you seen God sir?" ( to this question, all people previously replied NO)
Ramakrishna: "Yes, I see God as clearly as i See You".
This reply converted vivekananda into his desciple. Vivekananda biography gives innumerable number of interesting accounts about his difficulties he faced as a monk, how he tested God, how God helped him directly and indirectly. Vivekananda spoke in the pariament of world relegions , in chicago, and his speech made all the audience, delegates spell bound. Swami vivekananda was a great , interesting personality. He could read a book of 1000 pages in a day and could remember any point from that book. He could shoot with rifle , long distance objects without fail, though he had no experience or training in rifle shooting. He swam across the turbulent ocean near kanya kumari and reach an island and spent three days in yoga samadhi. His lectures, his writings are a must to read, because they throw light on ancient philosophy reviewd entirely from modern outlook. 
 

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