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SRI RAMAKRISHNA: I HAVE PRACTICED ALL KINDS OF SADHANAS

 

 

Salutations to Thakur, Guru, and Ma!

 

Gupta--"On December 16, 1883, the Master was describing Shiva's two

states.

 

He said, 'Shiva has two states. First, the state of samadhi when He

is transfixed in

 

the Great Yoga. He is then Atmarama, merged in the Self.

 

Second, the state when He descends from samadhi and keeps a trace of

I-ness.

 

Then He dances chanting, 'Rama, Rama!'

 

 

 

About his own sadhana, the Master said, 'I have practiced all kinds

of sadhanas:

 

Jnana yoga and Bhakti yoga, even Hatha yoga.

 

I practiced sadhana prescribed in Tantra. I first practiced sadhana

in the

 

Panchavati. During my sadhana, when I meditated, I would actually

see a person

 

with a trident in hand. He would threaten to hit me if my mind

strayed from God,

 

warning me it would pierce my breast and kill me.

 

I had all kinds of amazing visions. I distinctly perceived the

communion of the

 

Atman. A person exactly resembling me entered my body and began to

commune

 

with each one of the six lotuses.

 

How many other visions I saw while meditating! Once I saw Sin in

person before me

 

tempting me in various ways when I was meditating under the bel

tree..He wanted

 

to give me wealth, honour, sex pleasure, various occult powers-- all

this.

 

I began to call out for the Divine Mother. The Mother appeared. I

said to Her,

 

'Kill him, Mother!' I still remember Her form, that world-bewitching

beauty.'

 

 

 

On 27 December 1884, the Master was again talking of his past. He

said,

 

'Oh, what states I have passed through! I passed so many days

absorbed in

 

Hara and Gauri---Shiva and Parvati, some days absorbed in Radha and

Krishna,

 

and some days absorbed in Sita and Rama.

 

But Lila is not the last word. Passing through all these states, I

said to the

 

Divine Mother: 'Mother, in these states there is separation. Give

me a state where

 

there is no separation.

 

That's why I was immersed for so many days in the Indivisible

Satchitananda.

 

 

 

I took a vow and would not leave the place. I said to the Divine

Mother, 'O Mother,

 

I am a fool. Please teach me what is contained in the Vedas, the

Puranas,

 

the Tantras, and the other scriptures.' The Mother said to me, 'The

essence of

 

Vedanta is that Brahman alone is real and the world illusory. The

Satchitananda

 

Brahman described in the Vedas is the Satchitananda Shiva of the

Tantra, as also

 

the Satchitananda Krishna of the Purana. The essence of the Gita is

what you get

 

by repeating the word Gita ten times, that is, in its reversed

form 'tagi'--

 

renunciation"

 

 

 

Satchitananda

 

Kathy

 

 

 

(Gupta, Dharm Pal. LIFE OF M. and SRI SRI RAMAKRISHNA KATHAMRITA.

 

pp. 350-354; 264)

 

 

 

 

 

Niranjanam nityam-ananta-rupam,

 

Bhaktanukampat-dhrita-vigraham vai;

 

Isha-avataram paramesham-idyam,

 

Tam Ramakrishnam shirasa namamah.

 

 

 

The holy Lotus-feet of Sri Sri Guru Deva be my refuge.

 

We bow down with our head to Sri Ramakrishna, the adorable Supreme

Lord,

 

the God-incarnate, who although without the stain of imperfection,

 

eternal and infinite, yet verily took the human form out of compassion

 

for his devotees."

 

 

>From SRI-RAMAKRISHNA-LILA-STOTRAM by Swami Abhedananda.