~Sri Ramakrishna's Vision of Shiva in Benares Cremation Ground~

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Namaste, Beloved Family!

i thought i would post another 'Sri Ramakrishna Shiva Story'. This

one also is found in the 'Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna's Introduction.

Sri Ramakrishna is on Pilgrimage with Mathur[and several others].

 

'The party entered holy Benares by boat along the Ganges. When Sri

Ramakrishna's eyes fell on this city of Siva, where had accumulated

for ages the devotion and piety of countless worshippers, he saw it

to be made of gold, as the scriptures declare. He was visibly moved.

During his stay in the city, he treated every particle of its earth

with utmost respect. At the Manikarnika Ghat, the great cremation

ground of the city, he actually saw Siva, with ash covered body and

tawny matted hair, serenely approaching each funeral pyre and

breathing into the ears of the corpses the mantra of liberation; and

then the Divine Mother removing from the dead their bonds. Thus he

realized the significance of the scriptural statement that anyone

dying in Benares attains salvation through the grace of Siva.'

 

Om Namah Shivaya! Jai Maa! Jai Swamiji! Jai Ramakrishna Deva!

muktimaa