Pictures of Sri Sri Bhavatarini at Dakshineswar
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Abhijit Banerjee
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From the "Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna"
Sri Sri Bhavatarini Mother Kali
In the southern temple is the beautiful stone image of Kali. The Mother is called Bhavatarini (the saviour of the world). The floor of the temple is paved with white and black marble. The raised platform is furnished with steps. On the platform there is a silver lotus with a thousand petals. On this lotus is Shiva lying down on His back with His head to the south and feet to the north. The image of Shiva is made of white marble. Upon His breast stands the stone image of this very beautiful three eyed Shyama Kali attired in a Banarasi sari and Her person decorated with jewels of many kinds. On Her lotus feet are nupur (tinkling anklets), gujari, panchem, paijeb, chutaki, red china rose and leaves of bel. The paijeb is used by the women of the West (Punjab and Utter Pradesh). It was put by Mathur Babu at the special desire of Sri Ramakrishna. The Mother's arms are adorned with bauti (broad bangles), tavij (armlet) etc. made of gold. The lower arm has bala, flowery bangle, and pounche. In the middle arm she has a kada made of a two and a half round sections, tavij and baju. The last is with a hanging pendant attached to it. Round Her neck She wears the golden chek, a necklace made of seven strings of pearls, another necklace of thirty two gold strings, a chain of stars and a golden garland made of human skulls. On her head She wears a crown and her ears are adorned with kanbala, kanpash, gold earrings, chandni (round golden ear) and golden fish. There is a nose ring on her nose with a pearl attached to it. The three-eyed Goddess holds a decapitated human head and a sword in both Her left hands. Both Her right hands offer the boon of fearlessness. Round Her waist She wears the garland of human arms as well as golden waist-chains of neem and kamar-patta. In the north-east corner of the temple is a unique bed. On it the Mother takes rest. On one side of the wall hangs a chanvar. Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna fanned the Mother so many times with this chanvar. Upon the platform on a lotus seat there is a silver glass with water in it. Below on the ground are rows of vessels that hold water for Shyama to drink. To the northwest of the lotus seat is a lion made of eight metals, and the image of iguana and a trident towards the east. Towards the southwest of the platform is a she-fox, to the south is a bull made of black stone and to the north-east is a goose. On one of the steps leading to the platform is the image of Narayana installed on a small silver throne. On one side of his is the image of Ramalala, the nick name of Ramachandra, made of eight metals obtained by the Paramahansa Deva from a holy man and also an emblem of Vaneshwar Shiva. There are images of other gods too. The Divine Mother stands with her face to the south. Exactly in front of Her, that is to the south of the platform, is installed a pitcher. After the puja, this mangal-ghat is dubbed with vermilion, covered with various kinds of flowers and decorated with flower garlands. On one side of the wall is a pitcher made of copper, filled with water. The Mother would wash Her face. Above in the temple is a canopy, behind the image is hanging a piece of beautiful Benarasi cloth. There are silver columns on all the four sides of the platform. A very expensive canopy spreads over them. It adds to the beauty of the image. The temple is of medium size. Some of the gates of the vestibule are protected by strong doors. The guard sits near one of the doors. Near the threshold is a small a vessel with the holy charanamrita in it. The top of the temple is adorned with nine pinnacles. Four of the pinnacles are in the lowermost line, in the middle also are four and above them there is one pinnacle which is now broken. The Paramahansa Deva had performed puja in this shrine as well as in the shrine of Radhakanta.
Bharat Churiwala
As you have very rightly written to Sabujji, WORDS WOULD NOT SUFFICE TO EXPRES MY JOY.....I will also like to repeat same words for your posting describing DIVINE MOTHER BHAVTARINI...
To be very honest, I read this description and actually felt that I AM LOOKING AT THE PICTURES SENT BY SABUJJI. This is to prove that A PICTURE IS MORE THAN 1000 WORDS.... BUT IF WE HAVE WORDS AND PICTURE BOTH........OHHHHHHHHHHHHH WHAT AN EXTREME BLISS.
We Devotees of HOLY TRIO ARE REALLY BLESSED TO SEE THE IMAGE AT DAKSHINESWAR TEMPLE, SAME IMAGE WHICH WAS WORSHIPPED BY THAKURJI HIMSELF...... IS THERE ANY OTHER PROOF REQUIRED THAT OUR THAKUR WAS NOT ONLY "AVTAAR" but "AVTAAR VARISHTHAY".....
Bharat.
I have english version of THE GOSPEL OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA 1996 edition published by Chennai Math. This description is not exactly same....kindly clarify, please.
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Bharat Churiwala
From: Swami Jnanendrananda <sw....@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:10 AM
Subject: Fwd: Pictures of Sri Sri Bhavatarini at Dakshineswar
To: Bharat Churiwala <bchur...@gmail.com>
Abhijit Banerjee
This is regarding 'mismatch of descriptions' , the point you raised in your mail in this thread. Earlier I was not aware of this - Besides 'the wellknown English translation by Swami Nikhilananda
http://www.belurmath.org/gospel/
I found one translation, in this site:
http://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/
which says "Word to word translation by Sri Dharm Pal Gupta".
Unknowingly I took that paragraph from this one, and now I discover this. Kindly check. I don't know how much this translation of the Gospel differ from that of Swami Nikhilananda's. If anyone of us know this, kilndly throw some light on this issue.
love and regards,
Abhijit
Partha Sinha
From: Abhijit Banerjee <abhij...@gmail.com>
To: holy_t...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 4:50:34 AM
Subject: [Devotees of Holy Trio:9841] Re: Fwd: Pictures of Sri Sri Bhavatarini at Dakshineswar
Abhijit Banerjee
dear Partha-ji, thank you for providing this information.