Kathamrita, 99th Visit of M. 6-Sept-1884 Vol 4 Chap 2
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Jai Sri Guru-sri-charana-aravindaya
Jai Sri Ram
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Insight in the state of ecstasy – invitation to Narendra and others
The singing has ended. Thakur talks with Narendra, Bhavanath, and other devotees. Smiling, he says, “Hazra danced.”
Narendra (smiling): “Yes, sir. A little.”
Sri Ramakrishna (smiling): “A little?”
Narendra (smiling): “His paunch danced and also another thing.”
Sri Ramakrishna (smiling): “It dances by itself. You don’t have to move it; it moves on its own.” (All laugh.)
The conversation now turns to the invitation to Thakur by the man in whose home Shashadhar now resides.
Narendra: “Will the master of the house provide food?”
Sri Ramakrishna: “I hear he doesn’t have a good character, that he’s a scoundrel.”
Narendra: “That’s why, when you met Shashadhar for the first time, you didn’t drink water from the glass touched by his host. How did you know he had a bad character?”
His earlier story – at Sihore in Hriday’s house with Hazra and a Vaishnava
Sri Ramakrishna (smiling): “Hazra knows of another instance. It was at Hriday’s house in Sihore.”
Hazra: “He was a Vaishnava. He went with me to visit him [Sri Ramakrishna]. As soon as he came in and sat down, he [Sri Ramakrishna] turned his back on him.”
Sri Ramakrishna: “We heard afterwards that he acted lewdly toward his maternal aunt. (To Narendra) At first you used to say that my states were only hallucinations.”
Narendra: “What can I say? Now I have seen so much. It all tallies.”
Narendra means to say that when Thakur is in ecstasy, he can see the inside and outside of a person. He has confirmed this a number of times.
Sri Ramakrishna on caste of devotees
Adhar has made great preparations for serving Thakur and the devotees. He now invites them to eat.
Thakur says to Mahendra and Priyanath, the two Mukherji brothers, “Aren’t you coming to eat?”
They humbly ask to be excused.
Sri Ramakrishna (smiling): “They are doing everything else. But now hesitating about eating?
“A woman’s father-in-law was named Hari and her husband’s elder brother, Krishna. Now the name of Hari had to be chanted, but she wouldn’t say Hare Krishna. Instead, she repeated:
Phare Phrishta phare Phrishta, Phrishta, Phrishta Phare Phare.
Phare Rama, Phare Rama, Rama Rama Phare Phare.
Adhar is a goldsmith by caste. That is why some brahmin devotees are initially hesitant to eat in his house. But later, when they see that Sri Ramakrishna himself eats there, they give up this wrong notion.
It is about 9 p.m. Thakur has joyfully eaten his meal with Narendra, Bhavanath, and other devotees.
Now he comes to the parlour to rest. Preparations are being made for his return to Dakshineswar.
The Mukherji brothers have arranged for a kirtan at Dakshineswar tomorrow, Sunday, for Thakur’s enjoyment. Shyamdas, a professional musician, will sing. Ram studies devotional music from him at his home.
Thakur asks Narendra to come to Dakshineswar the next day.
Sri Ramakrishna (to Narendra): “Will you come tomorrow?”
Narendra: “I’ll try.”
Sri Ramakrishna: “You can eat there if you like.
“M. can also eat there. (To M.) Are you over your illness? Are you on a diet?”
M.: “No, sir. I shall be there.”
Nityagopal is in Vrindavan. Some days ago Chunilal returned from there. Thakur gets news of Nityagopal from him.
Thakur is ready to return to Dakshineswar. M. salutes him, touching Thakur’s feet with his forehead.
Thakur says to him affectionately, “Do come.”
(To Narendra and others, affectionately): “Narendra, Bhavanath – please come.”
Narendra, Bhavanath, and other devotees salute him by prostrating. They all return home, their minds recalling Thakur’s wonderful singing and dancing with the devotees during the kirtan.
It is the first day of the dark fortnight of the month of Bhadra. The moon shines brightly in the night, as if laughing. Sri Ramakrishna proceeds towards Dakshineswar in a carriage with Bhavanath, Hazra, and other devotees.