[Sri Ramakrishna] Sri Ramakrishna & Siva Mahimnah

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Dear Sri.Sunder,

I read the whole article about Bhagvan Sri Ramankrishna as the manifestation or

incarnation of Lord.Siva.

In this case, what do you say about Bhagvan Ramana Maharshi who is also

worshiped as the incarnation of lord siva as he was actually living in a place

where lord shiva lived (according to tamilnadu people).

 

Looking forward to hearing from you.

 

Sincerel yours,

Karthikeyan

 

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 sunderh wrote :

> Namaste,

>

> There is a good description of this episode at

> URL:

>

> http://www.koausa.org/KoshSam/Ramakrishna.html

>

> The school-days drama episode is recounted in

> Sw.

> Saradananda's Biography of Sri Ramakrishna [p.65]

>

>

>

> Gadadhar was once called upon to act as Siva on

> Sivaratri night in a

> dramatic performance at the house of Sitanath Pyre. The

> boy who was

> to act as Siva had fallen ill. Gadadhar's friends

> dressed him up as

> Siva, smearing his body with ashes, hanging Rudraksha

> beads around

> his neck, adorning his head with matted locks and a

> crescent moon,

> giving a trident for him to hold in his hand and so on.

> The young

> boy's mind soared into divine consciousness and he

> entered the stage

> with slow and measured steps.

>

> Gadadhar then stood motionless on the stage and the

> audience felt

> that Siva Himself was standing before them. The young

> boy was totally

> lost in the great sublimity of Siva. The audience went

> into raptures.

> Some cried out the names of Hari, the women uttered the

> auspicious

> sound of 'ulu' and some blew conch shells. It was as if

> everyone had

> been transported to Kailasa, the celestial abode of

> Siva !

>

> Gadadhar stood in the same posture for a long time with

> tears flowing

> down his cheeks; he neither spoke nor moved. Two or

> three elderly

> people went to the boy and saw that his hands and feet

> were

> insensitive and that he had no external consciousness.

> After some

> cornmotion, the play was stopped and Gadadhar was taken

> home by his

> friends. His divine ecstasy didn't come to an end that

> Sivaratri

> night, inspite of all efforts by others such as

> uttering the name of

> Siva into his ears. It is said that Gadadhar regained

> normal

> consciousness the next day after sunrise. Some say that

> he was in

> that ecstatic state continuously for three days.

>

> Siva Incarnate

>

> The birthday of Sri Ramakrishna falls on the second

> lunar day, three

> days after the Sivaratri. If it was true that the young

> boy Gadadhar

> was continuously in samadhi for three days from that

> Sivaratri night,

> it means that he regained normal consciousness only on

> his own

> birthday, which is now celebrated by devotees as Sri

> Ramakrishna

> Jayanti. Thus Sri Ramakrishna's impersonation of Siva

> and his

> absorption for three days in Siva- consciousness at the

> age of nine

> directly links the holy Sivaratri with Sri Ramakrishna

> Jayanti. Thus

> Sri Ramakrishna was none other than Siva Incarnate,

> which fact was

> palpably felt by all the pious souls who were fortunate

> to witness

> his dramatic impersonation of Siva on that holy

> Sivaratri night.

>

> Sri Ramakrishna does not appear to have engaged himself

> in any

> special sadhana with a view to realise Siva, though he

> performed

> sadhana to realise deities like Kali, Rama and Krishna.

> He seems to

> have realised Siva without any effort on his part at

> the age of nine

> on the Sivaratri day; like many other spiritua1

> experiences of Sri

> Ramakrishna, his absorption in the mood of Siva also

> lasted for three

> days then.

>

> Sri Ramakrishna also realised Siva as a corollary to

> his realisation

> of the Divine Mother Kali, since Siva and Sakti are

> inseparable; in

> fact, the deity Dakshineswar Kali worshipped by him

> stands on the

> prostrate image of Siva. Thakur's devotion to Siva and

> his knowledge

> that Siva resides in all beings seem natural and

> spontaneous like the

> manifestation of the 'Swayambhu Linga' of Siva, which

> is a self-

> sprung emblem of Siva with its roots going as far as

> Benares.

>

> In the whole of India, there are twelve most holy

> Sivalingas known as

> Jyotir-Lingas, the manifestations of Siva in the form

> of emblems

> representing light. In the Dakshineswar temple also,

> twelve temples

> of Siva have been constructed in a row by Rani Rasmani,

> who perhaps

> had in mind the twelve Jyotirlingas. Sri Ramakrishna

> himself was a

> living Jyotirlinga of Siva as he was the embodiment of

> divine light

> which arose out of Jugi's Siva Temple of Kamarpukur.

> Thus it is no

> wonder that Thakur was much devoted to the twelve

> 'Jyotir Lingas' or

> Siva installed at Dakshineswar.

>

> The 'Siva-Mahimna Stotra' composed by Pushpadanta is

> the most popular

> hymn on Siva in North India. Sri Ramakirshna certainly

> knew it by

> heart. One day he was reciting this hymn in one of the

> twelve Siva

> temples at Dakshineswar when he came to the following

> verse:

> " Asitagirisamam syat kaijalam sindhupatre

> Surataruvarasakha lekhani

> patramurvi; Likhati yadi grihitva Sarada sarvakalam

> Tadapi tava

> gunanamisa param na yati. "

> which means: " Oh Lord, if the blue mountian be the ink,

> the ocean the

> ink-pot, the biggest branch of the heavenly tree be the

> pen, the

> earth the writing leaf and taking these if Sarada, the

> goddess of

> learning, writes for eternity, even then the limit of

> Your virtues

> will not be reached. "

>

> Reciting the aforesaid verse, Sri Ramakrishna entered

> into an

> ecstatic mood and cried out again and again, " O Great

> God, how can I

> express your great glory? " All came running towards

> that spot hearing

> the cries of Thakur. Mathur Babu was in the temple at

> that time.

> Hearing the uproar, he also came and prevented others

> from removing

> Sri Ramakrishna forcibly from the Siva temple. Mathur

> had already

> formed a high opinion about Sri Ramakrishna by that

> time. When Thakur

> came down to normal consciousness and saw the crowd, he

> asked Mathur

> whether he had done anything wrong. Mathur saluted him

> and said, " No,

> Ba Ba (father), you were reciting a hymn: I stood here

> lest some one

> should disturb you unthinkingly. " Thus Mathur Babu

> protected and

> served Thakur in all possible ways for fourteen years

> like Nandi who

> eternally serves Lord Siva. Truly Mathur Babu and

> Hriday were to Sri

> Ramakrishna, what Nandi and Bhringi are to Siva. At

> another time,

> Mathur Babu actually saw Sri Ramakrishna as Siva and

> Kali

> alternately, as Thakur was pacing up and down.

>

> The verse from the Siva Mahimna Stotra which was

> recited again and

> again by Sri Ramakrishna is eminently applicable to his

> own life. Sri

> Ramakrishna himself is the Siva of this age, whose

> glories so many

> writers and poets are finding it difficult to express

> in words ! The

> words 'Sarada Sarvakalam' in the aforesaid hymn are

> very apt. The

> Goddess Sarada Herself was actually born as the Holy

> Mother Sri

> Sarada Devi and was tirelessly repeating the glories of

> Ramakrishna-

> Siva 'Sarvakalam' (at all times); still the limit of

> his virtues

> could not be reached.

>

> Sri Ramakrishna could not worship for long the twelve

> Sivalingas in

> the Dakshineswar temple which are called Yogeswar,

> Jatneswar,

> Jatileswar, Nakuleswar, Nakeswar, Nirjareswar, Nareswar,

> Nandiswar,

> Nageswar, Jagadiswar, Ja1eswar and Yajneswar. Among

> these twe1ve

> Sivas, Jagadiswar (literal1y, Lord of the world) seems

> to be

> especially important, as the real name of the Kali at

> the

> Dakshineswar temple is 'Sri Sri Jagadiswari Mahakali.'

> Sri

> Ramakrishna himself was Jagadiswar-Siva who actually

> realised that

> the Jagad (world) itself is Iswara (Siva). He said " One

> day while

> worshipping Siva I was about to " a bel- leaf on the

> head of the

> image, when it was revealed to me that this Virat, this

> Universe,

> itself is Siva. After thst my worship of Siva through

> the image came

> to an end. " But he used to send his young disciples to

> the twelve

> Siva temples for meditation.

>

> Siva is said to be in Bhava Samadhi during day time and

> in Nirvikalpa

> Samadhi at night. Sri Ramakrishna's time was also spent

> in various

> types of Samadhi. He ever dwelt in the state of

> Bhavamukha, which is

> the threshold state between samadhi and normal

> consciousness. Swami

> Sivananda has stated that whenever songs on Siva were

> sung in the

> presence of Sri Ramakrishna, he entered into ecstasies

> close to the

> Nirvikalpa Samadhi. Once songs on Siva were

> continuously sung and

> Thakur entered deep into Nirvikalpa. Thereafter he gave

> instructions

> that songs on Siva should be fo11owed by songs on tbe

> Divine Mother-

> so that his mind could come down easily from Nirvikalpa

> Samadhi.

>

>

>

> Regards,

>

> Sunder

>

>

>

> Ramakrishna, DEVINDER AHUJA <devahuja>

> wrote:

> >

> > In the preface to Siva Mahimnah Stotra by Swami

> Pavitrananda

> (Advaita Ashram) he mnetions that Sri Ramakrishna once

> went into

> Samadhi reciting the Siva Mahimnah Stotra.

> > Is this appearing anywhere in the Gospel ?

> > Sunder.......may I trouble you with a special

> research effort on

> this ? God bless you.

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