"The very first step in understanding what this is all about is giving up the concept of an active, volitional 'I' as a separate entity and accepting the passive role of perceiving and functioning as a process." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Monday, March 11, 2019

Sri Ramakrishna

Sri Sarada Devi

Q: Can you call Sri Ramakrishna your father?
A: Yes! He is my father, my mother, my brother and my friend. He is my all.
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If you pray to him constantly before his picture, then he manifests himself through that picture. The place where that picture is kept becomes a shrine.
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The easiest and best way of solving  the problems of life is to take the name of God, of Sri Ramakrishna in silence.
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Rely on Sri Ramakrishna and he will save you from your misery and bestow on you peace of mind. Take the name of the Lord and contemplate on the great sufferings Sri Ramakrishna had to undergo to take upon himself the results of bad karma of others, and then you will find that your body and mind are purified. Your grief and misery will pale into insignificance if you will only remember how Sri Ramakrishna, though absolutely pure and of divine origin, suffered for the sake of others and yet did not miss even for a moment his ecstatic joy and blissful contemplation of the Divine Mother.
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He was the embodiment of bliss itself. All the twenty-four hours of day were devoted to devotional music, merriment, laughter, teaching and story-telling. So far as I remember, I never saw him worried for anything.


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That in whom reside all beings and who resides in all beings,
who is the giver of grace to all, the Supreme Soul of the universe, the limitless being:
I AM THAT. -- Amritabindu Upanishad