Excerpt - Bhairavi Brahmani ( Continued )

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This is an excerpt from the book

 

" Ramakrishna And the Vitality of Hinduism "

by Solange Lemaitre

published by (1984) Overlook Press, New York.

(page 83)

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Recognizing his (Ramakrishna's) remarkable power of transmitting his

own spiritual vigour to others,she arrived at the conclusion that

such results could be obtained only by a highly developed soul.

Only a Divine Incarnation was capable of such manifestations.

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And she openly proclaimed that Ramakrishna, like Sri Chaitanya, was

an Incarnation of God.

....Nevertheless he (Mathur Babu) bowed to the Brahmin's request and

organized a meeting of theologians

for the purpose of discussing the case of Ramakrishna. This

conference was held in the nat-mandir (music auditorium)

opposite the temple of Kali.

 

The two most famous pundits of the time were invited: Vaishnavcharan

and Gauri, both escorted by professors and adepts. While the Brahmin

nun put forward her observations with emphasis on certain especially

important points of theology and with such knowledge of the

Scriptures and such competence that she was able to answer all the

pundits' questions. Ramakrishna,seated like a child in the center of

their circle and indifferent to what was going on around him, was

wholly lost in his own thoughts.

...

At the end of the meeting ,Vaishnavcharan proclaimed his full

agreement with the Brahmin nun, acknowledging that Ramakrishna had

attained to mahabhava, the sure indication of the extremely rare

manifestation of the Divine in a man.When the other persons in

attendance, particularly those attached to the service of the garden

temple, heard this announcement they were struck dumb.

 

In fact when Ramakrishna repeated to him what Vaishnavcharan had

said, Gauri replied:

" Is that really all that he said about you?

It is not very much, at bottom.

I am fully convinced that you are part of that source of spirituality

of which a small part descends to earth from time to time

in the form of an Incarnation. " .

 

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Om sthapakaya ca dharmasya sarva dharma swarupine

Avatara varisthaya Ramakrishnaaya Te namah!