I was debating with myself whether I should send this mail about my personal experience. Realising, that we are One Big family, then why not? Daily we are blessed with the Presence OF A WONDERFUL Swamijee as we have classes on the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. However one weekend on Sunday, [...]
Archive for June, 2009
CONFIDENCE
Posted in 1, tagged debating, experience, Gospel, Sri Ramakrishna on June 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
PEACE
Posted in 1, tagged faith, God, peace, sadhana, sincere love, yearning on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Maharaj: Peace and Sincere love of God and true faith come together. At the very start how can one attain peace? First restsleseness must come, yearning and intense pain for NOT having seeing HIM, the greater the thirst the sweeter the water. We must rouse unrest in the heart. When [...]
MEDITATION
Posted in 1, tagged devotees, disciples, sadhana, sleep, Sri Ramakrishna on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sri Ramakrishna never used to spend the night in sleep, nor would he allow the young devotees who stayed with to sleep long. When others had gone to bed, he would wake up His disciples, give them definite instructions and send them to the Panchavati, or the Mother’s Temple, or to Shiva’s Temple for [...]
SPIRITUAL PRACTICE
Posted in 1, tagged conflict, doubts, public, show, Spiritual practice on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Master used to say, Spiritual practices should not be done in public for show. If you do them before others, they will be harmful to you. People will mock you, they will offer advice gratis and give you conflicting suggestions, as a result of which various doubts will arise in your mind and [...]
RICH LOVE
Posted in 1, tagged Chaitanya, devotee, Ramananda, sadhu on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sri Chaitanya sent a man to Ramananda. Ramananda lived a lived a life of luxury, but at the name of the Lord fountain of tears of devotion burst from his eyes. The man did not understand why he wept. They say, if you are not a sadhu, you cannot know a sadhu [...]
GURU AND DISCIPLE
Posted in Books, Religion, Spirituality, tagged Chaitanya, disciples, Guru, honour, Swami Brahmananda, truth, Vivekananda on June 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There are two quotations that Swami Brahmananda used to repeat to his disciples regularly:
“Tell the truth, but never a harsh truth.” The second was from the teachings of Sri Chaitanya:
Be humbler than a blade of grass,
Be patient and forbearing like the the tree,
Take no honour to thyself,
Give honour to all,
Chant unceasingly the Name of [...]
FIRST CLASS DISCIPLE
Posted in Books, Religion, Spirituality, tagged rebuke, Swami Prabhavananda, Swami Turiydananda on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Swami Prabhavananda writes: I remember the first time Maharaj rebuked me. I failed to do a certain errand for him, because I had not understood, exactly what it was he wanted. For this neglect he scolded me throughout the afternoon. At supper time, Swami Turiyananda was seated with Maharaj and I [...]
Guru and Disciple
Posted in Books, Religion, Spirituality, tagged disciples, Guru, love, Maharaj, Sri Ramakrishna on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sri Ramakrishna Himself often rebuked His most intimate disciples, and Maharaj also used this method to train those who were near and dear to him. The chastening of a disciple never began, however, until after he enjoyed several years of love and kind words. These experiences were painful at the time, [...]
INITIATION 2
Posted in Books, Religion, Spirituality, tagged Guru, spiritual power, Swami Yatishwarananda on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The following is Swami Yathiswaranandaji’s own description of his initiation:
The day Maharaj was to initiate me, I felt a spiritual power tangibly emanating from him. After the initiation, I bowed down to him. He raised his hand in benediction above my head, giving me instantly a vivid consciousness of an immanent Presence. [...]
INITIATION
Posted in Books, Religion, Spirituality, tagged Brahmananda, disciples, Holy Mother, Initiation, Ramanuja on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Holy Mother once complained that Maharaj did not accept enough disciples . It so happened that just then Maharaj was invited to see a play about the life of Ramanuja which was written by one of his own disciples. In this drama, there is a scene which expresses Ramanuja’s great love for mankind. [...]
