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Ramprasad was on his way to the river for his daily ritual bath when a beautiful young woman stopped him, asking if she could hear him sing a devotional song to the Divine Mother.
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Ramprasad and was
Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma, was born in Gorakhpur district of United Provinces ( present-day Uttar Pradesh ), on 3 September in 1940.
It is said that, Ramprasad was born into a Tantric family, and showed an inclination towards poetry from an early age.
Ramprasad was born in Halisahar, a village on the banks of the Ganges about thirty-five miles north of Kolkata, into a Tantric Vaidya-Brahmin family.
Ramprasad was sent to a Sanskrit tol ( school ) where he learned Sanskrit grammar, literature, Persian, and Hindi.
Believing that marriage would make Ramprasad more responsible, his parents married him to a girl named Sarvani when he was twenty-two years old.
Ramprasad was very fond of taking part in Kali puja on the night of Diwali, the festival of lights.
Ramprasad waded into the holy river, until the water was neck deep, all the while singing for Kali.
As Kali's image was immersed, Ramprasad died — this was believed to be around 1775.
Ramprasad was repairing a fence with the assistance of his daughter, who left shortly thereafter.
According to the story, Ramprasad then realized that she was a manifestation of Kali.
Ramprasad requested her to wait, since it was getting late for his noon worship.
" Ramprasad was angry with himself and immediately left for Varanasi to find Mother Annapurna and sing for her.
Ramprasad was the first Shakta poet to address Kali with such intimate devotion, and to sing of her as a tender loving mother or even as a little girl.
Those rhapsodic songs describing direct vision of God ..." Paramhansa Yogananda also was an admirer of Ramprasad and his devotional songs, frequently singing them.
Ramprasad and on
In the morning, Ramprasad carried the jar of Divine Mother's sanctified water on his head to the Ganges.
Ramprasad and for
Ramprasad Dashrathprasad Sharma ( Amol Palekar ) is looking for a better paying job.
Ramprasad became well known for his devotional songs, eventually becoming the court poet for the king Krishna Chandra of Nadia.
According to traditional accounts, during initiation when the guru whispered the mantra to him, Ramprasad became consumed by intense longing for the goddess Kali.
Instead of following his parents wishes and looking for a job, it is said that Ramprasad devoted most of his time to sadhana.
Forced finally by poverty, Ramprasad moved to Kolkata and worked as an accountant in the household of Durga Charan Mitra for a monthly salary of thirty rupees.
Ramprasad and him
Ramprasad has a moustache, so Bhavani's hatred is no problem to him.
The next day Bhavani summons Ramprasad to his office and asks him about the Hocky Test match.
Ramprasad Sharma ( popularly known as Babaji ), who taught him the basics of music.
His fellow employees were appalled to see Ramprasad write poems in his account book, and reported him to their employer.
Instead of dismissing Ramprasad from work, he asked him to return to his village and compose songs to Kali, while continuing to pay his salary.
During the Maharaja's last years, Ramprasad stayed beside him, singing hymns to Kali.
Ramprasad and devotional
Much of the early canon is devotional, as in the Hindu devotional songs of Ramprasad Sen, a bhakta who captures the Bengali ethos in his poetic, rustic, and ecstatic vision of the Hindu goddess of time and destruction in her motherly incarnation, Ma Kali.
According to traditional accounts, during his employment Ramprasad would write devotional songs to Kali.
Many of these songs are recorded in The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, which at one point mentions, "... he ( Ramakrishna ) would spend hours singing the devotional songs of great devotees of the Mother, such as Kamalakanta and Ramprasad.
Ramprasad and Divine
Using inventive allegory, Ramprasad had ' dialogues ' with the Mother Goddess through his poetry, at times chiding her, adoring her, celebrating her as the Divine Mother, reckless consort of Shiva and capricious Shakti, the universal female creative energy, of the cosmos.
Ramprasad and Mother
* Grace and Mercy in Her Wild Hair: Selected Poems to the Mother Goddess, Ramprasad Sen ( 1720 – 1781 ).
* Ramprasad Sen ( 1720 – 1781 ) Grace and Mercy in Her Wild Hair: Selected Poems to the Mother Goddess.
Ramprasad and .
Seminal Bhakti works in Bengali include the many songs of Ramprasad Sen. His pieces are known as Shyama Sangeet.
* Bendi tilak-white tilak urdhwapundra with a white round mark in the middle, founded by Swami Ramprasad Acharya of Badasthan Ayodhya.
Ramprasad reluctantly shaves his moustache to become Lucky and starts to teach music to Urmila.
Ramprasad is credited with creating a new compositional form that combined the Bengali folk style of Baul music with classical melodies and kirtan.
His songs are sung today, with a popular collection — Ramprasadi Sangit (" Songs of Ramprasad ")— sold at Shakta temples and pithas in Bengal.
Biographies of Ramprasad are a mixture of biography, metaphor, and legend.
Ramram hoped his son would follow in his profession, but Ramprasad showed no interest in practical pursuits.
Ramprasad later became the disciple of Krishnananda Agamavagisha, a Tantric yogi and scholar.
Agamavagisha instructed Ramprasad in Tantric sadhanas ( spiritual disciplines ) and worship of Kali.
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