Conversations on Spirit Divine - 15

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Disciple: - Swamiji, Sri Ramakrishna is said to be an incarnation of most sublime divinity. He lived like an ordinary man of spiritual achievements. Your explanations gave me an impression that such incarnations are the best objects for our worship and meditation. I like to know if I can have the highest attainment by meditating upon Him as He is a manifestation of the highest divinity.

 

Swamiji: - Yes, He incarnated from the highest plane of divine splendor. He attained the highest realization of Hindu conception although He lived like an ordinary man and again practiced other religions as well. He did not appear as an incarnation of God with super human divinity and glory. He was living like an aspirant who practiced wonderful spiritual practices and shone as an ideal before His followers who accepted Him as their object of meditation. He became the embodiment of divinity by undergoing all kinds of so\spiritual practices and by attaining the highest goals of different faiths. You know that K\He attained the highest Nirvikalpa Samadhi during the period of His practices. That state of Samadhi where the individual becomes one with the cosmic state of spirit divine is indeed beyond our conception and beyond all limitations. It is therefore possible to conceive Him

as absolute divinity beyond all differentiations. You can now understand that Sri Ramakrishna is not a personality and that He is principle. That principle is what we call absolute divinity or universal Godhood. By following Sri Ramakrishna and meditating upon Him as a universal principle the aspirant can attain the highest realization. If an aspirant conceives Him as a personality and as a great man of realization who lived in the temple of Dakshineswar as a Brahmin priest doing wonderful researches in spiritual science as we read in the literature connected with His life, there is no doubt that he can reach such a personality in the plane of

consciousness.