Holy Dakshineswar

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Dear All,

Below excerpts are from " Sri Ma Darshan " by Swami Nityatmananda:

 

Sri Ma: " Dakshineswar is the field of his lila. Why does man not go there?

There is no place like that in the world today. The greatest of all pilgrimages!

Every grain of dust there is holy the path, the ghat all holy. The trees and the

creepers are holy the house, the building, the men holy. The whole environment

is holy. With the holy divine advent of the Lord, all these are awake, alive;

all holy and illumined. "

 

Sri Ma visiting Dakshineswar, 30th November, 1924:

 

M. prostrates himself to offer his pranam at the foot of this holy creeper and

then holds it in a tight embrace. Says he, " This Madhavi is very dear to us.

Thakur has brought it up serving it like a mother. It bears the touch of his

divine holy hand on its body. Blessed indeed is this tree which received so much

of love, so much of darshan, so much of touch, so much of care and so much of

concern in its early years as from a mother. Like Yamalarjuna, this creeper tree

is also perhaps some saint in disguise. Its birth as a plant is blessed! The

Veda says that man is born on the earth as a plant as a result of his Karmas:

sthanumanyenusamyanti yathakarma yathashrutam. "