~Mad For God~

[Guest guest]

Jai Maa, beloved Family of Light and Love!

 

i hope everyone is chanting their little hearts out and reeling in

bliss on this blessed 7th day of Navaratri. i would like to share

another sweet morsel from the holy lips of Thakur Ramakrishna Deva. i

offer it as a garland of blossoms fragrant with the scent of Divine

Intoxication. May it's sweet scent wake up all the sleeping gods to

their holy station.

 

Sri Ramakrishna: "Oh, what a state of mind I passed through! I would

open my mouth, touching, as it were, heaven and the nether world with

my jaws, and utter the word 'Maa!'. I felt that I had seized the

Mother, like a fisherman dragging fish in his net. Let me recite a

song:

 

This time I shall devour Thee utterly, Mother Kaali!

For I was born under an evil star,

And one so born becomes, they say, the eater of his mother.

Thou must devour me first, or I myself shall eat Thee up;

 

I shall besmear my hands with black, and with black my face;

With black I shall besmear the whole of my body.

And when Death seizes me, with black I shall besmear his face.

 

O Mother, I shall eat Thee up, but not digest Thee;

I shall install Thee in my heart.

And make Thee offerings with my mind.

 

You may say that by eating Kaali I shall embroil myself

With Kaala, Her Husband, but I am not afraid;

Braving His anger, I shall chant my Mother's name.

To show the world that Raamprasaad is Kaali's rightful son,

Come what may, I shall eat Thee up--Thee and Thy retinue--

Or lose my life attempting it.

 

"I almost became mad--such was my longing for God." OM.

 

Jai Maa! Jai Swamiji! Jai, Jai, Jai Thakur Ramakrishna Deva!

Your sister slowly dissolving in Maa's Love,

muktimaa

 

Excerpt is from "The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna"