Ramakrishna and Kali

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A dialogue elsewhere, which may be of some interest out here.

 

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Sandeep, why did Ramakrishna choose to see Kali as "Mother" when he was

certainly aware that on the Advaita Vedantic level he and the Divine Mother

were one and the same?

What then is the difference between a "Ramakrishna" worshipping Kali and an

ordinary person, banging the bells and chanting by rote?

 

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In an ordinary devotee, there is a "devotee" concerned with form (how

worshipping is to be done, the proper manner, with the proper

wherewithal's), with time, when it is to be done, how long etc etc.

 

And invariably with an objective in mind.

 

Something to be obtained, achieved, attained through the act of worship.

 

Whether that is a Million dollars, or enlightenment, or seeking protection

from a particular insecurity, a particular fear, there is an agenda in the

worship.

 

In the case of a "Ramakrishna", there was no agenda.

 

There was an apperception, that worshipping is taking place by Kali of Kali,

through the body-mind complex labeled "Ramakrishna".

 

Hence you would have noted, Ramakrishna never bothered with the form of

worship.

 

For days, he would not worship and then for days, he would be lost to the

world,.... in the ecstasy of the worship.

 

It is thus seen, that after apperception, whatever gets done through the

body-mind complex, in which apperception has taken place, it can only be in

the nature of a holy worship, no matter what the audience judges that doing,

as.

 

There is basically only one difference, between a sage and the ordinary

person(a term being used to notionally differentiate)

 

In one there is spontaneous living, moment to moment to moment.

And thus no stake or agenda.

 

In another, it is well planned out, whether verbalized or not.

There is an agenda, a stake, the act, no matter what, is a bargain.

 

However, once again, what is to be apperceived, is that, as much

Ramakrishna, was an expression of divinity, so is the bargain hunter,

hunting for spiritual bargains or material bargains.

 

 

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