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		<title>LIBERATION IN VARANASI</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Devout Hindus have firm faith that whoever dies at Kashi (Varanasi) gets released from bondage of worldly life. The popular scripture Kashi &#8211; Khanda proclaims, &#8220;One who dies at Varanasi gets liberated without any special effort.&#8221; Sri Ramakrishna Himself endorsed this view, as is evident from one incident. Master Himself narrated: &#8220;My sister, Hriday&#8217;s mother, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=navashri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2790111&amp;post=39&amp;subd=navashri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SWEET SOUND OF MUSIC</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[ecstasy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Sri Ramakrishna went on pilgrimage to Vrindavan, He expressed a desire to listen to the music of the vina, a stringed instrument, but no expert vina player could be found there. That desire again arose when he went to Varanasi. On enquiry, a virtuoso player on the vina, Mahesh Chandra Sarkar, was found. Master [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=navashri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2790111&amp;post=38&amp;subd=navashri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HOLY CITY _ VARANASI</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sri Ramakrishna was a connoisseur of things spiritual and could correctly assess the spiritual status of a holy place. The idea that Varanasi is unique was so deeply ingrained in his psyche, that it was found later in his conversations the mention of Varanasi and its different facets. Varanasi according to Mark Twain was &#8216;older [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=navashri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2790111&amp;post=37&amp;subd=navashri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SRI RAMAKRISHNA ON PILGIMAGE</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sri Ramakrishna said: &#8220;When a worldly man goes to holy places, he doesn&#8217;t have any time to think of God. He almost kills himself carrying bundles for his wife. On entering the temple, he is very eager to give his child the holy water to drink, but has no time for his own devotions.&#8221; To [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=navashri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2790111&amp;post=36&amp;subd=navashri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Ramakrishna</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late one night, Hriday saw Sri Ramakrishna walking towards the Panchavati. Thinking that his uncle may need His waterpot and towel, Hriday took the items and followed Thakur. As he did so his spiritual sight opened. He saw the figure of Sri Ramakrishna become luminous as it walked ahead of Him. This was no longer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=navashri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2790111&amp;post=35&amp;subd=navashri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SPIRITUAL AFFECTION</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tara (woman who worked with Girish Chandra Gosh on stage performing drama etc.) recalls her visit to Maharaj : Swami Brahmananda, the Spiritual son of Sri Ramakrishna, was revered and respected by all. With what undeserved care and affection he made me his own! I never saw my father, he died before I was born. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=navashri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2790111&amp;post=34&amp;subd=navashri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CONFIDENCE</title>
		<link>http://navashri.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/confidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, all devotees were expecting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=navashri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2790111&amp;post=33&amp;subd=navashri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PEACE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 a man does not find [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=navashri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2790111&amp;post=32&amp;subd=navashri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MEDITATION</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s Temple, or to Shiva&#8217;s Temple for meditation. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=navashri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2790111&amp;post=31&amp;subd=navashri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SPIRITUAL PRACTICE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 your spiritual [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=navashri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2790111&amp;post=30&amp;subd=navashri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RICH LOVE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8211; as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=navashri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2790111&amp;post=29&amp;subd=navashri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GURU AND DISCIPLE</title>
		<link>http://navashri.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/guru-and-disciple-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two quotations that Swami Brahmananda used to repeat to his disciples regularly: &#8220;Tell the truth, but never a harsh truth.&#8221; 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, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=navashri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2790111&amp;post=19&amp;subd=navashri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FIRST CLASS DISCIPLE</title>
		<link>http://navashri.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/first-class-disciple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 was fanning them. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=navashri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2790111&amp;post=18&amp;subd=navashri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guru and Disciple</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, but they were later [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=navashri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2790111&amp;post=17&amp;subd=navashri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>INITIATION 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is Swami Yathiswaranandaji&#8217;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. I realized [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=navashri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2790111&amp;post=16&amp;subd=navashri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s great love for mankind. The action [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=navashri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2790111&amp;post=15&amp;subd=navashri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DOING GOOD</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Swami Vivekananda returned to India, he talked to his brother disciples, giving a new expression to the ideals for which Sri Ramakrishna had stood. It is not enough, he said, to devote your entire life to the realization of God for yourself alone. You must also live &#8220;For the Good of all, for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=navashri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2790111&amp;post=14&amp;subd=navashri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PATIENCE AND UNDERSTANDING</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 17:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maharaj kept a watchful eye on the progress of each member of the order. He turned everyones heart continually towards God, and directed all the members actions and the activities of the mission toward the integrating of that inner strength, which alone can benefit mankind physically, morally and spiritually. When young men of varied temperaments [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=navashri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2790111&amp;post=13&amp;subd=navashri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DEVOTION</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 17:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A young disciple of Swami Vivekananda, was so inspired by his ideals of renunciation and service, devoted himself to nursing the sick and helping poor people. From a very humble beginning , his work grew into a huge organization. For many years this disciple was the head of one of the largest homes of service [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=navashri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2790111&amp;post=12&amp;subd=navashri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cravings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 12:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maharaj wrote the following letter to Balaram from Brindavan: &#8220;Who can fathom the workings of God? Who could know His Divine play? Man is subject to happiness and misery as long as his bound to karma. This is the lot of every man &#8211; whether he is learned or ignorant, good or wicked. Rare indeed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=navashri.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2790111&amp;post=11&amp;subd=navashri&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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