[Sri Ramakrishna] Digest Number 957

[Guest guest]

The article on indian roads is really funny and i really enjoyed it though

initially i felt that it is a

mockery on india's condintion. But truth has to be accepted.

 

Well to Haribol,

 

A warm welcome to you brother. I am happy to know that you are spritually

inclined. Gurumaharaj

really admired Chaithanya and infact few times he was in the state of

samadhi after attending the

bajans conducted by the devotees of Chaithanya. But his philosophy is much

more than bakthi marga

(which is the main ideology of ISCKON) He proved a combination of all the

yogas will be more

helpful. Sri Ramakrishna showed the whole world that all religion leads to a

same path by practicing

the other faiths sincerely. His teachings are simple and it produced

wonderful personalities like Swami

Vivekananda, Raja Maharaj, Swami Abedhananda, and the list goes on.,. To get

more idea of the

" Sri Ramakrishna movement " , i suggest initially you to read chapters from

Columbo to almora or

from Vol III of " complete works of swami vivekananda " and " Gospel of Sri

Ramakrishna " . Visiting

any Ashram in the nearby area will be more helpful. I fondly remember the

story of swamiji in the

parliment of religions where he mentioned a story of frog in a well and its

argument towards a frog

from the ocean about the magnitude of its well water than with that of the

ocean.

 

About Roy's note on swamiji's voice in a vinyl disc, i would like to point

out that in Bangalore some

Chinmaya mission devotee claimed that he is having Swamiji's Voice - that

too the famous lecture on

parliment of religions. But our ashram swamiji ruled out the possibility of

that being the swamiji's

voice. I do agree that few of the swamiji's articles are still scattered in

all places of india. Once i was

a part of a small team meant for recovering the swamiji's items(if any) in

Madras as Madras ashrama

was planning to convert the " Ice House " in to a museum (now it is a big

museum). ( " Ice house " is the

place where swamiji stayed in Madras.) During that search our team stumbled

upon the stick used by

Swami Vivekananda. It evoked a nice feeling in us.

 

About Anand's suggestion on the online version of " Gospel of Sri

Ramakrishna " it is advisible to get

the permission of " Advita Ashrama " as they have the Copyright permission. I

am sure we all enjoy to

have an online version of that holy text.

 

Jai Ramakrishna,

 

Sivaramakrishnan

 

 

 

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