Guest guest Posted February 9, 2003 Report Share Posted February 9, 2003 OM! The following is from Chistopher Isherwood's autobiography MY GURU AND HIS DISCIPLE: "February 16. Yesterday we went to the vespers of the Ramakrishna puja. Swami [swami Prabhavananda, Isherwood's Guru] was in the shrine room when we arrived. He looks much better, almost his old self. He had initiated someone that morning and someone else the morning before. "Asaktananda was doing the worship. Before he had finished, Swami stood up to leave the temple and return to his room. But then, on a sudden impulse, he stopped and began talking to all of us. "He told us how, immediately after he had joined the monastery, he had been present at the Ramakrishna puja with Brahmananda [Prabhavananda's Guru and the spiritual son of Ramakrishna], when Brahmananda had had a vision of Ramakrishna. There were musicians in the shrine room and Brahmananda had asked one of them to move his instrument a little, because it was touching the robe of the figure of Ramakrishna, which Brahmananda but nobody else could see. "Having had this vision, Brahmananda had declared that anybody, anywhere, who on that day took the name of Ramakrishna would be liberated. Swami ended by saying that he was sure that this was still true, and he made us chant Ramakrishna's name." OM Ramakrishna! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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