Guest guest Posted February 2, 2005 Report Share Posted February 2, 2005 rangeet sengupta Ramakrishna Tuesday, February 01, 2005 05:30 [sri Ramakrishna] Namaste to you all Hari Aum Tat Sat Group, I am just a man of 22. Women and men older than me in this group, deserves the bestowal of sincere feelings of respect from my part, and I do tender that to them. I do not know what you people take Ramakrishna to be, and would not like to hurt your feelings if my views contradict yours. I am a Bengali, living in Kolkata... and have read the usual Ramakrishna Literature...Kathamrita, Lilaprasanga, and most of Vivekananda's works. However, what I am not sure of, is the avataric claim that is adduced to Ramakrishna himself. I can accept him to be a great mystic, perhaps the greatest in the modern world....a siddha-purusha....and a Mukta-purusha. However, does that account for the fact that he is claimed(and thought to have claimed himself) to be an Avatar? ---------------response Dear Rangeet You have raised an interesting point. Each one of us sees Sri Ramakrishna in our own manner. The interesting thing is we do not actually see him but we see a reflection of our own spiritual aspirations and reflect our own capacity to come to terms with spirituality. Do you remember in the Gospel that Sri Ramakrishna used to ask various visitors, " How do you view this? " (pointing at himself). Can you see what he was doing? He was checking out the spiritual depth of the visitor. So just as when we try and measure the depth of the sea, we end up by exhibiting our own limitations rather than measure the depth...we all come to our own conclusions about who was Sri Ramakrishna : ) jay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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