Spiritual llife of Ramkrishna Paramhamsa "

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Spiritual life 

h502: "Lifestyle and self consciousness" , India have an  unique  lifestyle that always promote " knowledge and wisdom  to(Smart mapping Lifestyles and wellness) "self control  and self consciousness" . The world would be surprise listening  it that Tagore described the very base of Indian civilization was into the forest. Most of the knowledgeable person lived into the jungle  leaving the consumer world . They always  said that  we were observing the science and we were inviting you to examine that . We were not saying about the planted truth . To know the life of  Ramkrishna we must analyze the back ground of his incarnation . Ramkrishna was a holy man with heavenly word . The godly man was free from all blindness . Oneday he was talking with his disciples sitting on the temple , some one crossing  the laun kicking the grass , he cried out saying , " Please ! Do not  do this ! It is  painful  to  me ! You are striking my body"  . This  is a sate of mind of  the highest level of spirituality in a man when he feels connect with nature and  see himself  in others . 

"Knowledge and wisdom " , "Yoga and Meditation " empowered India to be a world leader or Biswa Guru . India ,the spiritual land  had done it so  earler without sending any single  army  to any country . So many great soul reincarnated in India time to time . Sometimes they were in cloth or not, sometimes they lived on  begging or eat the fruit of  jungle  to tame the hunger or lived in a cave of a mountain . Their observation was non violent and showed the way of great life. They accepted others doctrine and   advised us to keep our mind open . One of  them  was Adi Sankaracharjya the great soul left the house at the age of five and travelled  hundred of miles in search of knowledge and truth .  He chaunted  the following verse :    " Akasat Patittang Toaang Gacchti Sagaram Sarvadeva Namaskaram Gacchati  Kesabam" .  Falling from the sky every drop of  rain starts to go to the ocean ,i.e. every salute in His  name through different object goes to Him . Buddha, Chaitanya and Ram Krishna  born within the range of three thousands  year.

"India and Atrocities against Her" , India faced foreign invasion . It was about to fifteen hundreds year . Every sphere  of life attacked by them to destroy the  Indian civilization . People were in grief and agony . Even the great soul were hanged , jailed and engrave them lively . Sometimes they were innocent saint who lived for humanity. Ordinary peoples life were more than this .   The invader tried to delete the diversity , creativity  and democracy in Indian culture . A foreign invaders said to us that they had killed thirty crore  Indians .

" India  and Intellectual Fraud ", The invader  designed a intellectual fraud to malign the Indian culture. They replace   the Indian ancient education system without connecting  it to the Indian culture but with a European frame . They wanted  to produce Indian European to rule the sate on behalf of them. India was loosing its  diversity in oneness . It was a deep rooted conspiracy against India.  Tagore told  us about the invaders that their heart never swelled by the diversity.

" Indian culture and Women ", You can identify a nation whether it is a  civilized or not seeing the status of the women. Before foreign invasion women were free to live. Even they could marry in their own choice. So many women were the creator of  Vedas.  In ancient India a woman   used to take  part to a ceremony to garland  the man as  her wish . Women were the victim in a big way  due to the invasion.

h503 : " India and Ramkrishna " , The great Yogi ,  Ramkrishna was born in  West Bengal , a provincial state of India .  The great soul  came into the earth with a mission to save the India as a nation . He was born in the year of 1836  into a  village  near Kolkatta .  Old name of kolkatta  was calcutta . La piarre a french  writer named the city as a " city of Joy  " . It is famous for  "dhakineshwar and Kalighat Temple " .   Kolkatta is also famous for victoria "Memorial and Howrah Bridge" .  Here great people lived like Rabindra Nath Tagore, Vivekananda,Jagadis Chandra Bose, Satayen Bose and Satyajit Roy and also  so many Great peoples. British ruled the Indian State .  Ramkrishna was an illiterate and non academic . He was simple to understand . He was a source of " motivation  and inspiration and spirituality" and different from others monk . He got married but not enjoyed the family life. When Young disciples examined him due to his married life . He said to them , " Please ! examine me ! You must examine your Guru. ". He was so simple to look at as a devotee but wisdom and knowledge embedded into him . He was the center of all attraction to all intellectual  in his time . Kolkatta is the city  of great man. The soil is  always famous for "knowledge and wisdom " . "Spirituality and godlike  " activities embedded  in her soil . 

 "Ramkrishna And Purohit Family"  , Purohit are  the ancient teacher of the society .  They knew the "Vedas" , " Puranam" ,  "Sacred scripture and Astronomy"  . These people did all good things for the people. They were permitted by the society to do all rituals  on behalf of others . It is a family profession and till active in Hindu society. Ramkrishna was born in such  a family.

h504 : "  acceptanceand and adoption " , Indian were in melancholy mood . Grief and  distress embraced the nation . People were  running towards European thought process . They began to thought  that  Indian lifestyl would be a back  word journey of life .  Some social reformer began to try to impose Christian  structure into the  Hindu body . All failed to convince the society . But people had some questions to answer . Conservatism and rituals become first but some of them were not praiseworthy at all .  Adi Sankaracharjya told us  God is one   and no alternative to Him but Vedas said God is not there to dictate you but a great soul embedded into the universe . Again  Ramanusam  and Chaityana told us regarding Bhaktibad  . It means total surrender to Him.  Some believe in worshiping Him  in different form . People were confused  with that what path they would follow .  Ramkrishna showed the way . He told us that He existed  in one  form and also in multiple form and He  published Himself in different ways . He exists in different form . Some one can respect  any form of Him . He spreads over the both "materialistic and non materialistic world ".

" Spirituality and Simplicity ", Short stories of Ramkrishna was great . He exemplified  every thing in a simple way. He lived in Dhakineswar Temple as a Purohit . Once temple owner had  come to him to ask whether the idol of Ma Kali  should be replace or  to repair it . He asked , "Will you threw out your parent if they come to your house with broken legs" ? A disciple asked him " If God is everywhere why are we  not praying to a mad elephant who is about to kill us instead of running away ? He answered why were  you  not listening the  cautious word of the caretaker of the elephant ? God is also in Him . Once he asked to follow the duck which drink the milk leaving the water. You have  to follow the truth. Truth is behind the " Maya '.   For example ,  you have a  glass of water . Water is visible . Behind the water  there is Hydrogen and Oxygen  but the two elements are nonvisible.  The both are true . We can describe  that water is a relative or apparent truth . "Hydrogen and Oxygen " embedded into the water  as a truth but the two elements are not visible to us .  Water is Maya and  Hydrogen or Oxygen is also a truth but  covered  by the  apparent ,i,e, Maya . Duck can separate the milk from water .  Ramkrishna advised  to observe the duck how it drink the milk from water .  Do not run to embrace the Maya . The world's  is covered by the Maya .  We have to search the truth .  He cited so  simple examples that these were  easy to understand and hypnotized the people . He explained the Vedas  and Purana taking examples from the daily way of life . Jiva is Siva .  Please ! pray to God . Great soul  and soul  interconnected each other . Ramkrishna  had given an example of  that .  He told  that to get the touch of Great soul we had to apply to Him like as we did  for gas connection to the gas company .   And  later on the company would give you connection  through tube . Please ! apply to god for connection .  He gave an another example to explain the  state of mind when you would be capable to connect yourself with the Great soul . A monk lived in a  Math near by a locality . All  on a sudden he saw a land lord beating a man . The kind hearted monk  asked not to do this . The  land lord being angered  beat the monk . He became senseless. The people helped him by providing milk and water . One of them asked the monk "Who were helping you " ?  He answered politely those who  had beaten me . It is that state  of mind which make no difference  among  different soul s .

  " Ramakrishna and  Intellectual ",  Keshab Sen  was a great social reformer and intellectual of his time . The world used to listen  his voice . He met Ram Krishna and began to listening his  simple word with a great respect and  became  a disciple of him. Legendry director , writer and actor   of  Bengal ,Girish Ghosh  surrendered  to him . Ram Krishna  met the Iswar Chandra Bidyasagar, a great educationist and social reformer .  Bidayasagar was a title given   by the people  to Iswar Chandra . It means ocean of knowledge and wisdom . Bidyasagar was an atheists . But Ramkrishna believed  no reform can correct the society without  spiritualty .  Bankim Chandra  , the emperor's  of literature , intellectual and great novelist of India met him .Ramkrishna  wanted  to increase the?"social  and emotional health " through these intellectual. 

 "Ramkrishna and  A group of Young disciple".,  Ramkrishna was a center of  of attraction . A group of intellectual young men  came to him . Swami Vibekananda was  the leader of  them. Most of them were well versed  in western philosophy including Indian philosophy at their young age . At this time some of them were   the student of class eleven or twelve.  Ram krishna separated them from others. He took  care of them and  trained them as a game changer .  "Swami Vibekanada " had read the "world history " , philosophy of the "east and west ",  " science and logic ' subjects . Death of his father has thrown him into the sea of grief.  The family  was suffering  from financial crisis . Brothers  and sisters all were younger to him and so little to  earn money . Being graduated he failed to get a job  into the British India . Days were  running without food .  All the family were  facing fasting .  There was not a way out to him .  Listening the name of Ramakrishna into the mouth of a British College teacher, he convinced himself to met the Yogi . 

 "Ramkrishna and Vibekanada ", Who was the Guru of Vibekananda ? 

Answer is Ramkrishna.

 Vibekananda came to him with a lot of questions . . Ramkrishna answered all those questions when Vibekananda   enquired those . "Vibekananda " examined  him in various way whether he was cheating them  in the name of spirituality or not .  "Ramkrishna " never touch the money  . Several time he cried out due to this . He always advised the people not to put money in his shirts or bed . He always told it to his followers  that  money  and  wealth were soil like to him .  One day  "Swami Vibekananda "  put  money into  Ram Krishnas bed without his knowledge . Coming from the outside  "Ramakrishna " lied down into the bed  . He   shocked  and terrified due to something   going  wrong into his  bed .  Then "Swami Vibekananda " told the truth to him. Swami Vibekananda in his early age asked  Ramkrishna," Are you believe in God " ? 

Ram Krishna said to him ,"Yes".

 He further said to him  ,"Can you prove it"? 

Ram Krishna said to him "Yes"

He again said to him ," How"?

Ramkrishna  said to him "So I see You" .

  And said to Vibekananda  " You could  see Him  if you want to see Him "  . 

 Ramkrishna  asked vibekananda to go to meditiation  to achieve  " self contol and selfesteem " . "Yoga and meditation " is the way out to know Him .  Girish Ghosh , a great intellectual in his time told us Swami Vibekananda represents the untold story of Ramkrishna. 

 h505 : "Ram Krishna and Women Upliftment" ,  During the foreign invasion  women were  the more victim .  For the security reason they were grilled into the house . After  hundreds year of practice  it had become a rule  that women should be remain into the house .  British Rule gave some relief  to the women . Gouri Devi , one of his disciple who intended to go to Himalayas to know the God . Ram Krishna  protested against this and advised  her to do some thing for the welfare of the women.

 But she denied  him and went to the Himalayas  for mediation. Through mediation  she came to know about the death of her Guru sitting in a cave  of  Himalayas .  On grief she went to Ganga to sacrifice her life . She was about to kill herself  but listening the voice of Ramkrishna she retuned to the West Bengal and  opened an Asram for the orphan women . Ma Sarada , the wife of Ram Krishna and Swami Vibekanada  visited the Asram several times .

 But  they asked her , " Were your master told  you to do this" ?  

" Is it that "?

 Being questioned by them , she decided to go to Kolkatta  at Bagbazar to open a girl school . It was the first girl school  opened by the Indian  where  Sister Nivedita came to lit the educational lamp of the women . Nivedita was a disciple of Swami Vibekananda and with an intellectual  mind set, she started her work from that place .  Nivedita's intellectual mindset and writings inspired us for ever . Not only that she was directly linked with the Indian revolutionary and inspired them to fight the war of freedom.  Nivedita projected  "Jagadish Chandra Bose" to the intellectual class of Europe.

 " Ramkrishna and Indian Way of Life ", What are the Spiritual  message of Ramakrishna?  He always used to say  Go ahead ! Do not satisfy on a little ? For what he used to say those ? Answer was that he advised to go into the way of God .  You  must invest  your knowledge and wisdom towards to know  God . You can earn wealth , money and  fame but you never followed  the way of truth so why your life could be in vain. Your character would be below level .  No space for others , only I and my  are in your mouth. You are trapped into Maya   that is a apparent truth. It is an external  or horizontal achievement.  But  if you can give more time  to change yourself  towards spirituality you can attain more  tranquility and peace in mind . It will change your character. Other will get space in your life . Go ahead in search of infinity and you  will  get the truth behind  the apparent  truth.  It is a vertical  or internal achievement . Ram Krishna  advocated to follow the " Internal or Vertical  and lifestyles" . He emphasize on the subject " Know thyself or Atamanang Bridhi " . He inspired his disciples to know the truth which was covered by the "Maya" ,i.e., apparent truth. He also emphasized  on character building with spirituality otherwise all would be in vain . When one of his disciple paying gratitude to the great Devendra Nath Tagore, the father of the Rabindranath  Tagore for his social  work , he expressed frustration on this  by saying "Only hospitals and schools" ! It means without spiritualty a society cannot be corrected . Spirituality can show the way out of wellness . Spirituality is a science that develop wellness and mental  health . 

 h5" Spiritual and self consciousness ", Scientist  are searching  the truth in a segmented way . Modern science is searching the truth in a divisive way .They divided the science in various way . Chemistry, Physics and other way they divided the truth . Indian Rishi including Ramakrishna  searched the truth  in a unified way . Only one finding can explain all . The blessings word of his was " Make Yourself conscious " . It means   that  develop self consciousness  in you . According  to the modern physics  consciousness embedded into the universe and it is also in our existence . Our Rishis  like Ramkrishna  wanted to explore the consciousness  which embedded into our exitance . That  capable  to explain the truth in a unified way . The great scientist  Hawking   including  Albert Einstein told us that   a unified  theory  could  explain all of physics .  If  " Science and spirituality "  work together it will be a  good work for mankind . It will develop self confidence , self reliance , self consciousness and self control among the men .

"Lifestyles and wellness of daily life", Ramkrishna  was more liberal than his society of his time . He never tied himself  with the communal legacy of a so called spiritual  man . He lived in a temple and eat  simple food . He never collected  wealth and money for lively hood . He lived in a simple cloth one or more . He was simple to understand . He never tied himself with the rule , rituals and so called discipline . 

"Ramkrishna and Intellectual  world ",  Ramkrishna conquered the world of intellectual . Professor Wright once told us that Swami Vivekananda  was in one side  the rest  on the other side but we could not equalize  him.  As a magnet of wisdom , Ramkrishna not only attracted  " Leo Tolstoy" ," Romain Rolland", " Isher wood "  etc .  His other disciples  were also well versed in east and west . They knew the science, history and philosophy. Some of his disciples later on delivered lectures into the Oxford , Cambridge , Harvard and other universities of the world . It was not easy task to convince them . Ramakrishna not only convinced them but  inspired them  to get out from the house in  search of truth . They left   the house not for wealth , women and fame  but  in search of truth .   Twelve disciples of him  changed  India   towards modernity without sacrificing the  Ancient  India .  They electrified the nation by their knowledge and wisdom . They explore "Vedanta" into the foreign countries  as a brilliant  storage of knowledge . India as a nation become confident to fight the conspiracy and odds . This is  Ramkrishna .

  h508 : " Ramikrishna  and Spiritual  Mission", Ramkrishna saved  the  nation from the  impostion of European frame . Without changing the very base of  Indian spirituality he accepted the modern approach  and science .  His  logical mind set told us in regard  to  the sect in Indian  society  that  so many ideas  have had  so many ways so why we should accept this . He designed the road map of future India so why he  always used to say that spirituality for your salvation or mokkshaw was onlyselfishness . Albert Einstein  had  said " science without religion is lame  , religion without science is blind " .  Being  an illiterate  he recognized the problem and did not tied him with  any ritual and discipline  .  Sister Nivedita  said to us  " India must grow in her own line  of growth . India must remain India always and ever ".

h509 :  "Mapping of Ramkrishna 's  Lifestyle and  wellness",  India as a nation were not getting  any way out to combat the  "conspiracy and atrocities" against its people.   Content of his  message was  of " self control and self  consciousness " .   "Spirituality and meditation " can bring  change in our "lifestyle and wellness " .  Change of life style towards spirituality not for yourself  but for the people around you .  "Spirituality and Knowledge and wisdom "will be your sword .  He had given freedom to his disciples in their own way . Once he  examined Swami Vibekananda  whether he wanted  to be a superman or not .  Vibekananda  knew that Ramkrishna  as a Yogi  empowered to do so . But Swami Vibekananda  denied to be a super man and said to him that he would search the truth . Being a illiterate and non academic   how he knew the  world of knowledge and was successfull to convince  the  intellectuals ? Through  Spirituality and meditation you can know the universe and as  a part of the universe you can understand every thing . Spirituality  is  "the theory of everything  " in regard to the  "religion and science " .

h510 : " Ramkrishna and   Brief details "

   * Parrantel Name :  Gadadar  Chatterjee

   *Spiritual Name  :  Ramkrishna Paramhamsa

   * Birth date  :   18th Feb ,1836

   * Death Date :  16th August,1886

    * Village        :   Kamarhati

   * Death  Place:  Kasipur

   * Province      :  West Bengal

   * Country        :  Bharat Barsha

   * Married        :  1859 to 1886

   * Wife Name  :  "Sarada Devi  ", People called  Her"Ma Sarada "

   * Family Life  :  Never  lead a  Family Life

   * Religion        :   Hindu 

   * Practice        :   Hindu sects are , Trantik and Adwaitabad also the "Christianity And Islam ( Sufiism )" . But he never feel good in "Islam and   Christianity" . According to him they  are violent in nature .  Rabindrath  Nath Tagore said the same thing in a letter io Dr. Kalidas Nag . Rabindrath Tagore medited on the river  of Padma sitting on the boat.

  * His Master Or Guru  : Bharavi Bhramani , Tota puri ,             Govinda Roy (Suffiism ) 

 *  "Books on  Ramkrishna Paramhamsa "   : By  Romain Rolland , Mahendra Gupta, Raja Gopalachari , Richards Schiffman, Isherwood , Christopher and also  other hundreds book on him.  

" Ram Krishna and Meditation " , Every Hindu monk  and others have Guru .  Guru is the Guide and teacher of  the spiritual apprentice . He lit the light of wisdom and knowledge. He shows the way of truth  which is covered by the Maya , i.e, apparent truth .    Bhairavi showed the way of   "Trantic " .  Tota Puri  showed the way of  "Nirbikalpa Samadhi " .  It is a sate of "mind and body " . It is a  state  of non dual   existence of  "body and mind " for six month without least awareness of  "mind and  body " . It was a high level of spiritual   phase what he followed .   Tota puri lived in the Himalayan cave  . He came to plain land to    give  "Diksha" to Ramkrishna . Dhiksa means more than learning and remove all apparent truth from the mind .

 h511: " Message of Ramkrishana" ,   His message was great .  It inspired us  to go beyond blindness .  He gave  message  for the free world where people would live freely without fear :( 10 lines of Ramkrishnas Message )

 (1) Jiva is Shiva  . It means god lives in man and animal .

(2)  So why You should  love  and render service to the people  and animal .

(3) Non violence should be the base of  religion . 

(4) So many faith , so many path .  

(5)  Do not say your faith is true and best ,others are fake .

 (6)    Do not say  god without form  is the real  or  others are fake, different forms of god are also real  . All are correct to describe God . 

(7)  Spiritual man  can correct the society  . 

(8) Try to know the truth . Truth is shiva  ,  Truth and Shiva is beautiful .

((9)  Live in harmony , love,  affection and non violent way .  

(10) The world  is covered by the apparent truth, i.e, Maya . You are only a tenant or part of the dramatic stage . Please  understand this other wise  you will be a wrong doer in every  respect . Do honest and Godly work .

(11)  Honest companion will show you a honest way .

 (12) He always followed  logic .

  These  were his message  in short .   World is facing the terrorism and blindness .  He never told us  that  he was the last or no body would come after him .The world is far away from wellness . So Romain Rolland  stated in his famous book  named  " The whole life of Ramkrishna " described   Ramkrishna as a  prophet of the prophet".

 h512 : "Ramkrishna and His Disciples " .  His twelve disciples those who had  changed the India from a traditional society to a modern society  connecting  her with the ancient India and west . They and asti to palace, Sea to plain land . They had gone to the west to explore Vedanta and Hinduism . Being a nonviolent  one of them was killed   at California for his faith .  Team players name are given  below with  spiritual name  first and then parrental name as follows : 

 

 (1)   Swami Akhanda Nanda  : Gangadhar  Gangully 

 (2)    Swami Bijananda            : Taraknath  Chatterjee 

 (3)    Swami  Ramkrishnanda  :  Sashi Chakrabarty 

 ( 4)    Swami   Avedanada          : Kali Prassanna . 

  (5)    Swami  Niranjannanda    :  Nityaniranjan

  (6)    Swami Brammananda      :  Rakhal 

   (7 )   Swami  Premanada          : Tarapada Ghosh 

   (8)    Swami  Shivananda         : Taraknath 

   (9)    Swami Trignatitananda   :  Saradaprassna 

  ( 10 )  Swami saradananda        : Sarat 

   (11 )  Swami  Turiananda         : Harinath Chatterje

   (12)   Swami Vibekananda        : Narendra Nath  Dutta 

* Father's  name of Ramkrishna : Khudiram Chatterjee

*  Mother's  name  of Ramkrishna : Chandramani Devi

* Later on his disciples formed an organization  named  " Ramkrishna Mission "   and  " Belur Math   "     

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