Guest guest Posted March 6, 1999 Report Share Posted March 6, 1999 Revered Friends Our website receives postings from Advaita Ashram Calcutta on the teachings of Sri Ramakrishna. We will be sending one such posting per week to our mail list. This may generate intersting views from the list members. Advaita Ashrama, Calcutta <advaita Vivekananda Centre <vivekananda 06 March 1999 03:06 TEACHINGS OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA _______________________________ God Impersonal and Personal There is no distinction between Impersonal God (Brahman) on the one hand and Personal God (Shakti) on the other. When the Supreme Being is thought of as inactive, He is styled God the Absolute (Shuddha Brahman); and when He is thought of as active -- creating, sustaining, and destroying-- He is styled Shakti or Personal God. God is absolute, eternal Brahman as well as the Father of the universe. The indivisible Brahman, pure Existence, Intelligence, and Bliss, is like a vast, shoreless ocean without bounds and limits in which I only struggle and sink; but when I approach the ever sportive Personal Deity, Hari, I get peace like the sinking man who finds the shore. At one time I am clothed, at another naked; so Brahman is at one time with attributes and at another without. Shiva and Shakti (the Absolute and Power) are both necessary for creation. With dry clay no potter can make a vessel; water is necessary. So Shiva alone cannaot create without Shakti or Force. ---------------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 1999 Report Share Posted March 6, 1999 Dear Dilip, A good idea, the A.A. bulletins. You and I haven't " talked " for a long time. How are things going? Namaste, Yogeshananda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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