Sri Ramakrishna Deva today
Ramakrishna Math Hyderabad
Ramakrishna Math Hyderabad
Ramakrishna Math Hyderabad
Ramakrishna Math Hyderabad
Contributions of Sri Ramakrishna to World Culture - Part 3
3. Bridge between the ancient and the modern: Sri Ramakrishna is the real link between the ancient and the modern. He showed how the ancient ideals and experiences could be realized even while following the normal modern way of life.
Photo: Sri Ramakrishna Deva in Ramakrishna math Hyderabad on 27 Dec 2011. Photo by www.rkmath.org
Ramakrishna Math Hyderabad
Contributions of Sri Ramakrishna to world culture - Part 4
4. Boost to moral life: Sri Ramakrishna’s emphasis on truthfulness and renunciation of lust and greed has given a great boost to moral life in modern times. He also cleansed religious life of immoral practices, external pomp, miracle mongering, etc.
Photo: Sri Ramakrishna Deva in Ramakrishna Math Hyderabad on 28 Dec 2011. Photo by www.rkmath.org
Ramakrishna Math Hyderabad
Contributions of Sri Ramakrishna to World Culture - Part 5
5. Divinization of love: Sri Ramakrishna elevated love from the level of emotions to the level of the unity of all Selves in God. Although the principle of oneness of the Supreme Self and its immanence in all beings is a central point in the Upanishads, it was seldom applied in practical life. Sri Ramakrishna saw the Divine in his wife, in his disciples, in others, even in fallen women, and treated them all with respect. The famous dictum of the New Testament, “God is Love”, found its verification in Sri Ramakrishna. Divinization of love and human relationships is another contribution of Sri Ramakrishna which has immense significance for the welfare of humanity.
Photo: Sri Ramakrishna Deva on 29 Dec 2011 in Ramakrishna Math, Hyderabad. Photo by www.rkmath.org
Ramakrishna Math Hyderabad
Ramakrishna Math Hyderabad
"The man whose image I here evoke was the consummation of two thousand years of the spiritual life of three hundred million people. Although he has been dead forty years, his soul animates modern India. He was no hero of action like Gandhi, no genius in art or thought like Gandhi or Tagore. He was a little village Brahmin of Bengal whose outer life was set in a limited frame without striking incident, outside the social and political activity of the time. But his inner life embraced the whole multiplicity of men and Gods. It was a part of the very source of Energy, the Divine Shakti, of whom Vidyapati, the old poet of Mithila, and Ramprasad of Bengal sing."
- Romain Rolland [a French Dramatist, Novelist, essayist, art historian, and mystic who was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in 1915]
on Sri Ramakrishna Deva
Photo: Sri Ramakrishna Deva in Ramakrishna Math Hyderabad on 31 Dec 2011. Photo by www.rkmath.org
Ramakrishna Math Hyderabad
"'I shall make the whole thing public before I go,' the Master has said some time before. On January 1, 1886, he felt better and came down to the garden for a little stroll. It was about three o'clock in the afternoon. Some thirty lay disciples were in the hall or sitting about under the trees. Sri Ramakrishna said to Girish (Ghosh), 'Well Girish, what have you seen in me, that you proclaim me before everybody as an Incarnation of God?' Girish was not the man to be taken by surprise. He knelt before the Master and said with folded hands, 'What can an insignificant person like myself say about the One whose glory even sages like Vyasa and Valmiki could not adequately measure?' The Master was profoundly moved. He said: 'What more shall I say? I bless you all. Be illumined!' He fell into a spiritual mood. Hearing these words the devotees, one and all, became overwhelmed with emotion. They rushed to him and fell at his feet. He touched them all, and each received an appropriate benediction. Each of them, at the touch of the Master, experienced ineffable bliss. Some laughed, some wept, some sat down to meditate, some began to pray. Some saw light, some had visions of their Chosen Ideals, and some felt within their bodies the rush of spiritual power."
From the Introduction to THE GOSPEL OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA,
by Swami Nikhilananda
Photos: Sri Ramakrishna Deva in Ramakrishna Math Hyderabad on 01 Jan 2012, Kalpataru Utsav. Photos by www.rkmath.org
Ramakrishna Math Hyderabad
