Ramakrishna and Narendranath (contd-2)

Ramakrishna was a great artisan. Ramakrishna took the help of a blacksmith's wife during putting on his sacred thread to offer him alms. He wanted to put on flames of fire , some times of low temperature and sometimes of high temperature. He wanted to put on high temperature fire for mons and low temperature fires for domestic persons. He wanted to prepare Narendranath etc by high temperature fire. When he was in death bed at Cossipore Garden House he said to Narendranath the real thing. Narendranath etc was very much shocked at the pain Ramakrishna had to suffer. He was physically fatigued but his countenance was flashing with heavenly glows. Smile was visible at the end of his lips and he began to say, " I am taking all the sufferings of the world so that you will remain free from suffering. Only you are to endure what is coming before you. he lives, who endures. all the sorrows and sufferings of the world will remain as it is, I have nothing to do with it . Even God will be able to do nothing. This is illusion, illussion of promordial energy. Look illusion of  Brahmma, not Brahmma of illusion. God is nowhere in the universe, He is within you. I am not Guru, Iam like yours. I am not a scholar or a knowledgable man, I am simply illiterate. I know only my mother, I donot know anything else.
I have given my work to be done by Narendra. and I left my wife  as the mother of the world."
 

Ramakrishna and Narendranath (contd-1)

Ramakrishna was conscious about music. Lyrics of  songs which are not inspiring, Ramakrishna termed them as rubbish. He mentioned, for example, " Ma tomar jiv laklak karche, ,ma tomar galay mundamala, ma tomar payer talay shiv pare achen " etc. are not songs in his opinion.
Ramakrishna took his lunch and would be taking rest. Master Mashai, the writer of "Kathamrita", and  other disciples were sitting on the floor. Musical sound of the "Nahabat" of Dakshineswar was audible from the room. Having heard the sound of the Sanai, he became glad. He used to say, " the latent power in man gradually opens up by the sound of the Sanai. It is known to devotees that music leads one, very easily, to God. We shall not be able to know ourselves if the latent power does not open.
Many used to say, how Ramakrishna knew all such things. He had not studied books. He knew all such things by practicing  deep meditation. He had not to attend any school or college, or he had not submitted any doctoral thesis. What he said were found in Gita, Bhagbat or  Bedanta.
Ramakrishna said, " there are three stages when a man gets the knowledge of Supreme Power (Brahmmagnan). 1. One becomes inert (jarhabat), 2. one becomes devil, 3. One becomes childish.
Ramakrishna became childdish. He began to laugh like a child. He was laughing and saying; " A Bird is sitting in its nest. She is warming up the eggs she laid.Have you seen its eyes ?  It is looking vacantly. The eyes of a sage is like that."
Ramakrishna said while strolling, " I have seen a great ascetin under the banyan tree of
 Dakshineswar " and was laughing again. He was talking with the Goddess. He began to say, " what is in the Upanishad." .. 
He said from his perception which might be found in Upanishad. " One can  read many books, one can participate in many debates and may acquire mountainous knowledge. But that may not increase his perception, may not lead him to consciousness.
  

Ramakrishna and Narendranath

Ramakrishna was telling stories of his own life to Narendranath.  He was telling stories about his coming from  Kamarpukur , Burdwan .   He had to come from Kamarpukur to Dakshineswar by various means of conveyances. First he had to come by foot, and then by Bullock cart. While coming by bullock cart he asked the driver to wait for sometime and he went to see the things around him in the open field. He went to see how the living beings were passing their lives and saw some ants going from one place to another in a long que. He thought, "there is god every where, in every living being."
He asked Narendranath , " Keep your God , and keep your meditation. Go round India. See what peoples are doing there ? How they are living ? I had in my mind to become a successful man. But I couldn't. I want to do mission done by you. Do you know, what is that ? Uplift the nation. Listen Narendranath, religion is not which can be injected in empty stomach.  This body is made up of five things - earth, water, light, air, atmosphere. The body is made up with these five primary elements. Bible, too, mentioned this.You have come from this earth and you will be merged in earth."
I came to understand this by observing the life of ants. "Look, there are many flowers, like that of many human beings. In some flowers there are rows of petals. Smaller to bigger. World is also like that. Smaller world to bigger world. Like thousands petals in a lotus.Sometimes Ramakrishna absorbed in deep meditation. I must die, when I was born.There is none, who is immortal.
But one thing is there, everywhere, in every time and eternal that is the supreme body. He will never die because He was not been born. Again Ramakrishna absorbed in deep meditation.          

Devotees of Ramakrishna (contd-3)

Devotees of Ramakrishna (contd-2)

Ramakrishna stayed in the south-east room of the Garden House at Cossipore.It was situated in such a way that on the west side of the room there was the Ganges, on the north there was the garden of Rani Rasmoni under the tamarisk tree, on the east there is the main gate of the house, and on the south there is the temple, Bally- bridge and Calcutta. Ramkrishna was sitting on the veranda. Around him there were sitting Rakhal, known later as Swami Brahmmanandaji, Latu, later known as Adbhutanandaji, The master sir, Mahendra Gupta and Harish. Ramakrishna was having talks with them. They have come from  different corners of the society. They have demands, families, sorrows and sufferings, they have deaths. But they became happy at the presence of Sri Ramakrishna.
Thakur said, " blue die was mixed with water in a vat, in another there was red die, in another yellow die,  if one outs clothes in those vats, it will turn into blue, or red, or yellow. Like this, if one comes in front of Sri Ramakrishna one feels happy because he is the creator of happiness.. There is no sorrow. Then why Ramakrishna was attacked with cancer in his throat? This too he explained . There is sorrows and sufferings but one has to convert it onto his happiness.He taught us by carrying disease and cancer in his throat. this too he mentioned that he will show everything in his life as an example. When you will be attacked with illness, you think of myself. "How much sufferings I had in Cossipore garden House ? You too grasp the technique of overpowering sufferings like me."
When Ramakrishna was advised to ask Mother to get relief of his wound in his throat , he replied , I asked for knowledge, I asked for devotion - after coming to Dakshineshwar, I said taking mud in one hand and money in another, " taka mati, mati taka (mud is money and money is mud)'' and then have thrown both the mud and the money.Many have laughed at me."
At first Narendranath didnot have faith on Ramakrishna. Just to examine him, he put a coin under his bed on the cot. But when coming from outside Ramakrishna wanted to sit on the cot, he felt uneasiness. After searching it was found that a coin was under his cot. Narendra became ashamed. But Ramakrishna said, " you have done right. You should examine a person, whehter he is a sage or a hypocrite. observe him during daytime and during night.Test him. This is why he is Narendranath .        

Devotees of Ramkrishna (contd-1)

Ramakrishna said that Chaitanya Mahaprabhu left his domestic life. Gautam Budhdha, on seeing the infirmity, death and sickness, went for complete emancipation. Jesus Christ wanted to offer love to everybody. But he made a distinction between virtue and sin. Ramakrishna said there is no virtue nor there is sin. There is only sinless soul. If you say constantly sin, you will be entangled with sin. He made Swamiji to say, " No negative thoughts. Don't say no.Always say yes."

Ramakrishna said to Naren," Look, Naren, if you say constantly negative,  the poison of a snake also becomes negative. We are to say, " yes I posses, though there is no rupees in the safe-vault , no money in the bank, no situation vacant, no shoe in leg, still you should say, yes, I have. I posses infinite strength with which I can stand  bravely before any sorrow , what you can do to me. Because sorrow could not touch me, joy, do you want to make me dancing. But I shall not dance.Because the treachery of the world is known to me.The world is beautiful. 

Devotees of Ramkrishna

Ramkrishna was looking from the top of the roof of Garden House of Kassipore to its bottom. At the bottom of the Garden House of Kassipore there were waiting more than thirty devotees. All of them were family members, namely, Girish and his brother Atul, Ram, Nabagopal, Haramohan,Baikuntha, Kishoree, Haran, Ramlal, Akshoy, Upendranath Majumdar, Cook Brahmman Gangulee, Bhupati, Upendranath Mukhopadhyay, Harish and Narendranath. Narendranath used to do meditation every night by lighting incense-pot at one end of the Garden house.
The devotees were ready to receive cloth dyed with red ochre.and string with beads.
Ramkrishna came down along with Ramlal to hand over their dues.Girish was at the front of the que.  
Ramakrishna went into a trance. he began to say " Chaitanya hok, Chaitanya hok ( get into senses)." After few hours he went upstairs.
A truth came out by interaction with Ramakrishna.
" The 'soul' , one believes, is not born nor  will it die." It is easy to say, but it is difficult to practice. That is why Rasmakrishna said, " became death-conscious" . Why he said so? Because men are fond living in which he or she belongs. What is living ? It is nothing but revolving in a wheel of practices and by this way we gradually come nearer to our death or in other words to go into a non-existence state from a existence state. That is what "I". Ramkrishna said this is the state of 'raw I', which says that the objects earmarked in my name is mine. Nobody has any right in that. ramakrishna said nothing is yours, because when your eyes will shut down for ever, nothing will be marked as yours. All these objects are transient. then what is eternal ? Ramakrishna  said , "It is God".
it is God