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Ramakrishna reportedly had experiences of similar nature a few other times in his childhood — while worshipping the goddess Vishalakshi, and portraying god Shiva in a drama during Shivaratri festival.
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Ramakrishna reportedly had a vision of the goddess Kali as the universal Mother, which he described as "... houses, doors, temples and everything else vanished altogether ; as if there was nothing anywhere!
Ramakrishna reportedly mentioned that they could find the bride at the house of Ramchandra Mukherjee in Jayrambati, three miles to the north-west of Kamarpukur.
" Under the guidance of Totapuri, Ramakrishna reportedly experienced nirvikalpa samadhi, which is considered to be the highest state in spiritual realisation.
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During this period, Vivekananda returned to Baranagar Math a few times, because of ill health and to arrange for monetary funds after Balaram Bose and Suresh Chandra Mitra, the disciples of Ramakrishna who sponsored the Math had died.
He had a walk with Swami Premananda, a brother-disciple, and gave him instructions on the future of the Ramakrishna Math.
On the other bank of the river, Ramakrishna had been cremated sixteen years before.
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa had sixteen disciples ( other than Swami Vivekananda ) who became monks of the Ramakrishna Order ; they are often considered his apostles.
Ramakrishna had reserved ochre cloths for 12, including Girish Ghosh.
Several of the monks had only seen Ramakrishna a few times.
Rumors spread to Kamarpukur that Ramakrishna had become unstable as a result of his spiritual exercises at Dakshineswar.
By the time his bride joined him, Ramakrishna had already embraced the monastic life of a sannyasi ; as a result, the marriage was never consummated.
According to the Bhairavi, Ramakrishna was experiencing phenomena that accompany mahabhava — the supreme attitude of loving devotion towards the divine – and quoting from the bhakti shastras, she said that other religious figures like Radha and Chaitanya had similar experiences.
Ramakrishna acknowledged the left-hand tantric path, though it had " undesirable features ", as one of the " valid roads to God-realization ", he consistently cautioned his devotees and disciples against associating with it.
According to Ramakrishna, towards the end of this sadhana, he had a vision of Sita, the consort of Rama, merging into his body.
According to Ramakrishna, he had an intense vision of two young boys merging into his body.
Ramakrishna said that he " devoutly repeated the name of Allah, wore a cloth like the Arab Moslems, said their prayer five times daily, and felt disinclined even to see images of the Hindu gods and goddesses, much less worship them — for the Hindu way of thinking had disappeared altogether from my mind.
" According to Ramakrishna, after three days of practice he had a vision of a " radiant personage with grave countenance and white beard resembling the Prophet and merging with his body ".
Ramakrishna describes of a vision in which the picture of Madonna and Child Jesus became alive and had a vision in which Jesus merged with his body.
In 1875, Ramakrishna met the influential Brahmo Samaj leader Keshab Chandra Sen. Keshab had accepted Christianity, and had separated from the Adi Brahmo Samaj.
Formerly, Keshab had rejected idolatry, but under the influence of Ramakrishna he accepted Hindu polytheism and established the " New Dispensation " ( Nava Vidhan ) religious movement, based on Ramakrishna's principles —" Worship of God as Mother ", " All religions as true " and " Assimilation of Hindu polytheism into Brahmoism ".
Newspapers reported that Ramakrishna was spreading " Love " and " Devotion " among the educated classes of Calcutta and that he had succeeded in reforming the character of some youths whose morals had been corrupt.
Ramakrishna also had interactions with Debendranath Tagore, the father of Rabindranath Tagore, and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, a renowned social worker.
Ramakrishna was skilled with words and had an extraordinary style of preaching and instructing, which may have helped convey his ideas to even the most skeptical temple visitors.
Ramakrishna and experiences
The dialogue on psychoanalysis and Ramakrishna began in 1927 when Sigmund Freud's friend Romain Rolland wrote to him that he should consider spiritual experiences, or " the oceanic feeling ," in his psychological works.
In this psychoanalytic study of Ramakrishna's life, Kripal argued that Ramakrishna ’ s mystical experiences were symptoms of repressed homoeroticism.
"), and the experiences and outlook of historical figures including Buddha, Jesus, Sri Ramakrishna, Paul, Plotinus, Muhammad, Dante, Francis Bacon, and William Blake.
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The organizations are akin to the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission and run on similar lines.
Almost simultaneously, the Ramakrishna Mission in Madras had similar thoughts.
Ramakrishna and nature
He was orthodox in nature and was dubbed as oldish by Sri Ramakrishna.
Similarly, Vivekananda's teacher Ramakrishna Paramahansa, using an analogy said that man is like a cow tied to a pole with a rope — the karmic debts and human nature bind him and the amount of free will he has is analogous to the amount of freedom the rope allows ; as one progresses spiritually, the rope becomes longer.
According to the gospel Ramakrishna discussed various topics including the world of duality and trascendental nature of Brahman, citing the parables of the salt doll, the wood cutter and the ant and the sugar hill, on discrimination between true and false knowledge, on different manifestations of God's power, on ego and suffering, on power of faith etc.
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After spending a few days at Advaita Ashrama, Mayavati, he settled at Belur Math, guiding the work of Ramakrishna Mission and Math and the work in England and America.
He moved about in India for a few years, with a Bengali novice Buddhist, the future Buddharakshita, as his companion, meditating and experiencing for himself the company of eminent spiritual personalities of the times, like Mata Anandamayi, Ramana Maharishi and Swamis of Ramakrishna Mission.
A few days later he went to Dakshineswar to visit Kali Temple and surrendered himself fully to Sri Ramakrishna.
On 20 February 1934, a few days after Sri Ramakrishna ’ s birthday, Mahapurush Maharaj died.
During his last few years he travelled extensively and visited many centres of Ramakrishna Math, including those of Rangoon and Colombo.
Within a few days of arrival in India, Margaret met Sarada Devi, wife and spiritual consort of Ramakrishna, who, surpassing all language and cultural barriers, embraced her as " khooki " or " baby " in Bengali.
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During Ramakrishna's last days, Narendra and some of the other disciples received the ochre monastic robes from Ramakrishna, forming the first monastic order of Ramakrishna.
" During his final days, Ramakrishna asked Narendra Nath to take care of other monastic disciples and in turn asked them to look upon Vivekananda as their leader.
Swami Vivekananda and other disciples of Ramakrishna in Baranagar Math, in 1887
Narendra and other members of the Math spent their time in meditation, discussing the philosophies and teachings of spiritual teachers including Ramakrishna, Adi Shankara, Ramanuja, and Jesus Christ.
Many native born Canadians of various ethnicities have converted during the last 50 years through the actions of the Ramakrishna Mission, ISKCON, Arya Samaj and other missionary organizations as well as due to the visits and guidance of Indian Gurus such as Guru Maharaj, Sai Baba, the controversial Rajneesh and others.
Ramakrishna also experimented with other religions, notably Islam and Christianity, and said that they all lead to the same God.
Following Keshab, other Brahmos such as Vijaykrishna Goswami started to admire Ramakrishna, propagate his ideals and reorient their socio-religious outlook.
Among the women, Ramakrishna emphasized service to other women rather than tapasya ( practice of austerities ).
Ramakrishna also asked other monastic disciples to look upon Vivekananda as their leader.
Romain Rolland described the mystical states achieved by Ramakrishna and other mystics as an "' oceanic ' sentiment ", one which Rolland had also experienced.
In 1995, Jeffrey J. Kripal argued in Kali's Child that the Ramakrishna Movement had manipulated Ramakrishna's biographical documents, that the Movement had published them in incomplete and bowdlerized editions ( claiming among other things, hiding Ramakrishna's homoerotic tendencies ), and that the Movement had suppressed Ram Chandra Datta's Srisriramakrsna Paramahamsadever Jivanavrttanta.
While the former was completely made locally in Ramakrishna Cine Studios, Kurukshetram was shot in Mysore, Rajasthan, and other places with huge settings.
Later for clear legal confirmation of these rules, a Trust Deed was registered by Swami Vivekananda and many of the other disciples of Sri Ramakrishna, during 1899-1901.
The work was known, appreciated and quoted by Ramakrishna and his disciple Vivekananda, as well as by other well known gurus such as Sant Shri Asaramji Bapu, Swami Chinmayananda, Ramana Maharshi, Osho and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
At Udbodhan House, Sarada Devi was accompanied by other women disciples of Ramakrishna, Golap Ma, Yogin Ma, Lakshmi Didi and Gauri Ma being the best known.
According to Goan historian Anant Ramakrishna Dhume, the Gauda and Kunbi and other such castes are modern descendants of ancient Mundari tribes.
Ramakrishna gorged both the curd and the milk. Kali was furious. But Ramakrishna explained to Kali that what is one without the other. Kali was impressed by his wit and said that he will become a Vikatakavi. Meaning a jesting poet. with his Knowledge he left to Vijaynagara.
After the passing away of Sri Ramakrishna, when the Baranagar Math was formed by Narendranath and other brother disciples, Gangadhar renounced his family life and embraced a life of travel with consent from his family and set foot for the Himalayas.
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