SENGUPTAJI'S MESSAGE OF 31-1-05

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NAMASKAR SENGUPTAJI,

YOU HAVE QUOTED: ,..... " One who was Rama, One who was Krishna, that

same one in this(his body) is Ramakrishna.... " I AM SURE YOU ARE ALSO

AWARE THAT THIS WAS IN ANSWER TO SIMILAR UNSPOKEN DOUBT IN NAREN'S

(LATER SWAMI VIVEKANANDA) MIND.YOU MUST HAVE ALSO READ THERE THAT SRI

RAMAKRISHNA ADDED ADDRESSING NAREN:'BUT NOT IN YOUR VEDANTIC SENSE'.

THIS ANSWERS YOUR QUESTION.

BUT IT HARDLY MATTERS WHAT VIEW ONE HAS ABOUT HIS AVATAR STATUS.IT IS

SAID IN GOSPEL THAT HE ADVISED A YOUNG MAN WHO WAS NOT SURE IF GOD

EXISTS, HOW TO PRAY WITH ADVANTAGE WITHOUT ACCEPTING THAT GOD EXISTS!

EVERYTHING COMES IN ITS OWN TIME. ONE SHOULD ONLY CONTINUE HIS JOURNEY

FOR EXCELLENCE HONESTLY.

I AM AN OLD MAN OF 79+.

CHETAN

 

Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:30:47 -0800 (PST)

rangeet sengupta <dionysus_adonis

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?

Ramakrishna, as

we all know, was a Vedantin.... and he had mastered both the

Vishishtadvaita of Ramanuja and the Advaita of the Sankaracharya. If he

talks

about,..... " One who was Rama, One who was Krishna, that same one in

this(his

body) is Ramakrishna.... " is that to be taken as a basic Vedantic

affirmation of Soham...Aham Brahmashmi....or is that to be accepted as

the

proclamation of the One's Incarnation?

 

 

 

 

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Chetan Merani

 

 

 

 

 

 

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