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Realisation of Sri Ram Krishna Paramhansa !


SRI RAMAKRISHNA’s REALISATION OF NIRVIKALPA SAMADHI

What he had realized on the heights of the transcendental plane, he also found here below, everywhere about him, under the mysterious garb of names and forms. And this garb was a perfectly transparent sheath, through which he recognized the glory of the Divine Immanence. Māyā, the mighty weaver of the garb, is none other than Kāli, the Divine Mother. She is the primordial Divine Energy, Śakti, and She can no more be distinguished from the Supreme Brahman than can the power of burning be distinguished from fire. She projects the world and again withdraws it. She spins it as the spider spins its web. She is the Mother of the Universe, identical with the Brahman of Vedānta, and with the Ātman of Yoga. As eternal Lawgiver, She makes and unmakes laws; it is by Her imperious will that karma yields its fruit. She ensnares men with illusion and again releases them from bondage with a look of Her benign eyes. She is the supreme Mistress of the cosmic play, and all objects, animate and inanimate, dance by Her will. Even those who realize the Absolute in nirvikalpa samādhi are under Her jurisdiction as long as they still live on the relative plane.
After nirvikalpa samādhi, Sri Ramakrishna realized māyā in an altogether new role. The binding aspect of Kāli vanished from before his vision. She no longer obscured his understanding. The world became the glorious manifestation of the Divine Mother. Māyā became Brahman. The Transcendental Itself broke through the Immanent.
Sri Ramakrishna discovered that māyā operates in the relative world in two ways, and he termed these “avidyāmāyā” and “vidyāmāyā”. Avidyāmāyā represents the dark forces of creation: sensuous desires, evil passions, greed, lust, cruelty, and so on. It sustains the world system on the lower planes. It is responsible for the round of man’s birth and death. It must be fought and vanquished. But vidyāmāyā is the higher force of creation: the spiritual virtues, the enlightening qualities, kindness, purity, love, devotion. Vidyāmāyā elevates man to the higher planes of consciousness. With the help of vidyāmāyā the devotee rids himself of avidyāmāyā; he then becomes māyātita, free of māyā.
The two aspects of māyā are the two forces of creation, the two powers of Kāli; and She stands beyond them both. She is like the effulgent sun, bringing into existence and shining through and standing behind the clouds of different colours and shapes, conjuring up wonderful forms in the blue autumn heaven.
The Divine Mother asked Sri Ramakrishna not to be lost in the featureless Absolute but to remain in bhāvamukha, on the threshold of relative consciousness, the border line between the Absolute and the Relative. He was to keep himself at the “sixth centre” of Tantra, from which he could see not only the glory of the seventh, but also the divine manifestations of the Kundalini in the lower centres. He gently oscillated back and forth across the dividing line. Ecstatic devotion to the Divine Mother alternated with serene absorption in the Ocean of Absolute Unity.
He thus bridged the gulf between the Personal and the Impersonal, the immanent and the transcendent aspects of Reality. This is a unique experience in the recorded spiritual history of the world.
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p85-87,

~ Foreward by Aldous Huxley, New York, Ramkrishna-Vivekananda Centre

Shiva Parvati Ganesha story decoded

The stories in the Puranas contain many incredible and hard-to-believe occurences. But they should not be interpreted as a nursery rhyme. Their language is Shakespearean and laden with great depth and meaning. We need to interpret these stories with a very refined state of mind.

The story goes that Parvati created a boy out of dirt from her body and appointed him to guard the doorstep. The first question that comes is how could Parvati, the Goddess Herself, have so much dirt? Parvati symbolizes the triguna – sattva, rajas and tamas. The entire creation is made up of trigunas. The dosha or imperfections that originate out of the triguna is an obstruction for the functioning of Prakriti. That was the boy that Parvati created to stand guard at the door. Shiva is Shuddha Chaitanya, pure consciousness. Like the sun does not recognize darkness and cuts through it, Shiva does not recognize dosha and slays the impurity. But Prakriti cannot stay without impurity. So Shiva replaces the dosha with the head of an elephant, which symbolizes knowledge. Through knowledge, all the doshas or obstructions of Prakriti can be taken care of. This is the spiritual and metaphysical meaning of Ganpati being slain. So worshipping Ganpati as the remover of obstacles and the giver of gyana, knowledge is the most amazing depiction of the nature of consciousness.

Going a step further, even this difference between Prakriti and Purusha is done away with. That is why, the Ganpati Upanishad says,

ajam nirvikalpam niraakaaram-ekam
niraanandam aanandam advaita poornam
param nirgunam nirvishesham nireeham
para brahma roopam ganesham bhajema ||

Ganesha is the only One unborn unmanifest Reality. He is nirvikalpa and advaita – the formless, undivided One. This is the play and display of consciousness within itself.

While Ganpati is certainly the Nirakara Parabrahman, he is invoked and worshipped in the mud idol for a period of time for the joy of the devotees. Then the Ganpati is asked to merge back into our heart and the idol is immersed in water. This ritual is observed for the sake of devotees, not for the sake of Ganpati. He who is without form is invoked in a form and then his spirit is invoked back into one’s heart as the idol is immersed.

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A tale of 2 Masters !!

Trailanga Swami and Lahiri Mahasaya 🙏🙏

Lahiri Mahasaya had a very famous friend, Swami Trailanga, who was reputed to be over three hundred years old. The two yogis often sat together in meditation. Trailanga’s fame is so widespread that few Hindus would deny the possibility of truth in any story of his astounding miracles. If Christ returned to earth and walked the streets of New York, displaying his divine powers, it would cause the same excitement that was created by Trailanga decades ago as he passed through the crowded lanes of Benares.

On many occasions the swami was seen to drink, with no ill effect, the most deadly poisons. Thousands of people, including a few who are still living, have seen Trailanga floating on the Ganges. For days together he would sit on top of the water, or remain hidden for very long periods under the waves. A common sight at the Benares bathing GHATS was the swami’s motionless body on the blistering stone slabs, wholly exposed to the merciless Indian sun. By these feats Trailanga sought to teach men that a yogi’s life does not depend upon oxygen or ordinary conditions and precautions. Whether he were above water or under it, and whether or not his body lay exposed to the fierce solar rays, the master proved that he lived by divine consciousness: death could not touch him.

The yogi was great not only spiritually, but physically. His weight exceeded three hundred pounds: a pound for each year of his life! As he ate very seldom, the mystery is increased. A master, however, easily ignores all usual rules of health, when he desires to do so for some special reason, often a subtle one known only to himself. Great saints who have awakened from the cosmic mayic dream and realized this world as an idea in the Divine Mind, can do as they wish with the body, knowing it to be only a manipulatable form of condensed or frozen energy. Though physical scientists now understand that matter is nothing but congealed energy, fully-illumined masters have long passed from theory to practice in the field of matter control.

The great yogi preserved a habitual silence. In spite of his round face and huge, barrel-like stomach, Trailanga ate only occasionally. After weeks without food, he would break his fast with potfuls of clabbered milk offered to him by devotees.

On one occasion her master Trailanga, forsaking his usual silence, honored Lahiri Mahasaya very pointedly in public. A Benares disciple objected…Sir.. he said..why do you, a swami and a renunciate, show such respect to a householder?..
My son… Trailanga replied..Lahiri Mahasaya is like a divine kitten, remaining wherever the Cosmic Mother has placed him. While dutifully playing the part of a worldly man, he has received that perfect self-realization for which I have renounced even my loincloth!

From – Autobiography of a Yogi, Chapter 31

Enlightment of Shri Ramkrishna Paramhansa

This is the story of the enlightenment of the great Master, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa: “One day as I was meditating in the Kali temple in a vision the Divine Mother showed me the Light of Brahman, which surpassed the light of even millions of suns together. I then saw that a luminous form emerged from that Infinite Light and again merged back into its source. I experienced that the formless Brahman took a form and again became formless – Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.” Ramakrishna was born on 18 February 1836 near Kolkata. From a young age he was fond of serving holy men and listening to their discourses. He was also very often found to be absorbed in spiritual moods. At the age of six he experienced his first Divine ecstasy while watching a flight of white cranes moving against the background of black clouds. Sadhguru tells the story of Ramakrishna’s enlightenment and his meeting with Totapuri, a great yogi. He explains that for Ramakrishna the Goddess Kali was not just a deity but a living reality. She danced in front of him, she ate from his own hands, she came when he called, and she left him dripping with ecstasy. He was actually feeding the goddess. Ramakrishna’s consciousness was so crystallized that whatever form he wished became a reality for him. Although Ramakrishna’s body, mind and emotions were dripping with ecstasy, his being was longing to go beyond this ecstasy. Somewhere there was an awareness that the ecstasy itself was a bondage. One day Ramakrishna was sitting on the banks of the Hoogli River when Totapuri, a very great and rare yogi came that way. Totapuri saw that Ramakrishna was a man of great intensity with the potential to go all the way and attain the final enlightenment. But the problem was, he was just stuck in his devotion. Ramakrishna was devoted to Kali and Kali was his only interest. When he was high on her, he would be bursting with ecstasy and dancing and singing. Totapuri came to Ramakrishna and tried to convince him by saying, “Why are you still so attached to your devotion? You have the potential to take the ultimate step.” But Ramakrishna said, “I want only Kali, that’s all.” He was like a child who wanted his mother. It is not possible to reason with that. When he would sometime lose contact with the goddess he would cry like a baby. This was the way he was. So whatever enlightenment Totapuri was talking about, he was not interested in that.

One day Totapuri told Ramakrishna, “This is very simple. Right now you are empowering your emotions, you are empowering your body, you are empowering the chemistry within you. You are not empowering your awareness. You have the necessary energy but you just have to empower your awareness.”

Ramakrishna agreed and said, “Okay, I will empower my awareness and sit.”
However the moment he has a vision of the Goddess Kali, he would again go into uncontrollable states of Love and ecstasy. No matter how many times he sat down, the moment he saw Kali, he would just go into that ecstatic state again.

So Totapuri said, “The next time Kali appears, you have to take a sword and cut her into pieces.” Ramakrishna asked, “Where do I get the sword from?” Totapuri replied, “From the same place you get Kali from. If you are able to create a whole Kali, why can’t you create a sword? You can do it. If you are able to create a goddess, why can’t you create a sword to cut her? Get ready.”

Ramakrishna sat. But the moment Kali came, he burst into ecstasy and forgot all about the sword and the awareness.
Then Totapuri told him, “You sit this time. The moment Kali comes…” and he picked up a piece of glass and said, “With this piece of glass, I am going to cut you where you are stuck. When I cut that place, you create the sword and cut Kali down.”

Again Ramakrishna sat and just when Ramakrishna was on the edge of ecstasy, when Kali appeared in his vision, Totapuri took the piece of glass and cut Ramakrishna really deep across his forehead.

At that moment, Ramakrishna created the sword and cut Kali down, becoming free from the Mother and the ecstasy of feeding off Her. That is when he truly became a Paramahamsa, when he became fully enlightened. Till then he was a lover, he was a devotee, he was a child to the Mother Goddess that he created. He remained in the state of nirvikalpa samadhi, the state of non-dual existence for six months without the least awareness of his own body. During this period Ramakrishna relived the entire range of spiritual experiences of more than three thousand years of the Hindu religion. On 16 August 1886 Ramakrishna gave up his physical body, uttering the name of the Divine Mother………

Benefits of Desi Cow !!

गाय से जुड़ी कुछ रोचक जानकारी ।

1. गौ माता जिस जगह खड़ी रहकर आनंदपूर्वक चैन की सांस लेती है । वहां वास्तु दोष समाप्त हो जाते हैं ।

2. जिस जगह गौ माता खुशी से रभांने लगे उस जगह देवी देवता पुष्प वर्षा करते हैं |

3. गौ माता के गले में घंटी जरूर बांधे ; गाय के गले में बंधी घंटी बजने से गौ आरती होती है ।

4. जो व्यक्ति गौ माता की सेवा पूजा करता है उस पर आने वाली सभी प्रकार की विपदाओं को गौ माता हर लेती है ।

5. गौ माता के खुर्र में नागदेवता का वास होता है । जहां गौ माता विचरण करती है उस जगह सांप बिच्छू नहीं आते ।

6. गौ माता के गोबर में लक्ष्मी जी का वास होता है ।

7. गौ माता कि एक आंख में सुर्य व दूसरी आंख में चन्द्र देव का वास होता है ।

8. गौ माता के दुध मे सुवर्ण तत्व पाया जाता है जो रोगों की क्षमता को कम करता है।

9. गौ माता की पूंछ में हनुमानजी का वास होता है । किसी व्यक्ति को बुरी नजर हो जाये तो गौ माता की पूंछ से झाड़ा लगाने से नजर उतर जाती है ।

10. गौ माता की पीठ पर एक उभरा हुआ कुबड़ होता है , उस कुबड़ में सूर्य केतु नाड़ी होती है । रोजाना सुबह आधा घंटा गौ माता की कुबड़ में हाथ फेरने से रोगों का नाश होता है ।

11. एक गौ माता को चारा खिलाने से तैंतीस कोटी देवी देवताओं को भोग लग जाता है ।

12. गौ माता के दूध घी मख्खन दही गोबर गोमुत्र से बने पंचगव्य हजारों रोगों की दवा है । इसके सेवन से असाध्य रोग मिट जाते हैं ।

13. जिस व्यक्ति के भाग्य की रेखा सोई हुई हो तो वो व्यक्ति अपनी हथेली में गुड़ को रखकर गौ माता को जीभ से चटाये गौ माता की जीभ हथेली पर रखे गुड़ को चाटने से व्यक्ति की सोई हुई भाग्य रेखा खुल जाती है ।

14. गौ माता के चारो चरणों के बीच से निकल कर परिक्रमा करने से इंसान भय मुक्त हो जाता है ।

15. गौ माता के गर्भ से ही महान विद्वान धर्म रक्षक गौ कर्ण जी महाराज पैदा हुए थे।

16. गौ माता की सेवा के लिए ही इस धरा पर देवी देवताओं ने अवतार लिये हैं ।

17. जब गौ माता बछड़े को जन्म देती तब पहला दूध बांझ स्त्री को पिलाने से उनका बांझपन मिट जाता है ।

18. स्वस्थ गौ माता का गौ मूत्र को रोजाना दो तोला सात पट कपड़े में छानकर सेवन करने से सारे रोग मिट जाते हैं ।

19. गौ माता वात्सल्य भरी निगाहों से जिसे भी देखती है उनके ऊपर गौकृपा हो जाती है ।

20. काली गाय की पूजा करने से नौ ग्रह शांत रहते हैं । जो ध्यानपूर्वक धर्म के साथ गौ पूजन करता है उनको शत्रु दोषों से छुटकारा मिलता है ।

21. गाय एक चलता फिरता मंदिर है । हमारे सनातन धर्म में तैंतीस कोटि देवी देवता है ,

हम रोजाना तैंतीस कोटि देवी देवताओं के मंदिर जा कर उनके दर्शन नहीं कर सकते पर गौ माता के दर्शन से सभी देवी देवताओं के दर्शन हो जाते हैं ।

22. कोई भी शुभ कार्य अटका हुआ हो बार बार प्रयत्न करने पर भी सफल नहीं हो रहा हो तो गौ माता के कान में कहिये रूका हुआ काम बन जायेगा !

23. गौ माता सर्व सुखों की दातार है ।

हे मां आप अनंत ! आपके गुण अनंत ! इतना मुझमें सामर्थ्य नहीं कि मैं आपके गुणों का बखान कर सकूं ।

जय गाय माता !!