In Dense Darkness Thy Formless Beauty Sparkles

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Dear Holy Family,

 

When Sri Ramakrishna began His sadhana to Mother Kali he turned to the

mystical songs of the great bengali saints, particularly Ramprasad and

Kamalakanta.

 

For Him, songs like the one following by Ramprasad, were more than

mere poetry, or even devotional ferver; they were, as it were, maps of

consciousness with the power to lead the devotee to the same

realization as the saintly authors.

 

Because of Sri Ramakrishna's emaculate purity of mind and soul, as

well as His almost superhuman renunciation of desire for things of

this world, He was able with great fludity and speed to follow the map

to the same position of consciousness from which the song had

emanated; and, great yogi that he was, to maintain that asana unbroken

until the Mother came.

 

 

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In dense darkness, O Mother, Thy Formless Beauty Sparkles;

 

Therefore, the yogis meditate in a dark mountain cave.

 

 

In the lap of boundless dark, on Mahanirvana's waves upborne,

 

Peace flows serene and inexhaustible.

 

 

 

Taking the form of the Void, in the robe of darkness wrapped,

 

Who are You, O Mother, seated alone in the shrine of samadhi?

 

 

 

>From the Lotus of Your fear-scattering Feet

 

flash Your Love's lightnings;

 

 

Your Spirit-Face Shines forth

 

with Laughter, terrible and loud.

 

 

 

 

Respectfully,

 

Tanmaya