Dear Friends, You may consider yourself a very lucky today to be in receipt of a book published and printed in 1901 by Baker and Taylor company, in New York, containing a speech of Swami Vivekananda on his Master, Swami Paramahansa Ramakrishna. The 111 year old book looks beautiful with a red wrapper preserved by Cornell University in USA, and is titled "MY MASTER". The print setting is appreciable. In this small book Swamiji brings out in detail, the early life of Paramahamsa Ramakrishna, his self introspection, self realization and the ekaagra chiththam (unique concentration) for seeing, talking and being with "Mother" the Goddess Bhavatharini which He eventually achieved. Education does not lead one to spirituality, wealth and aging has nothing to do with inner growth. It is the manifestation of pure love, which is the true inborn nature of all human beings, in every thought, deed and speech which alone is wisdom. Swami Vivekananda says : " He looked like an ordinary man, with nothing remarkable about him. He used the most simple language, and I thought "Can He looked just this man be a great teacher?"— crept near to him and asked him the question which I had been asking others all my life: "Do you believe in God, Sir?" "Yes," he replied. "Can you prove it, Sir?" "Yes." "How?" "Because I see Him just as I see you here, only in a much intenser sense." That impressed me at once. For the first time I found a man who dared to say that he saw God that religion was a reality to be felt, to be sensed in an infinitely more intense way than we can sense the world. I began to go to that man, day after day, and I actually saw that religion could be given. One touch, one glance, can change a whole life. In the presence of my Master I found out that man could be perfect, even in this body. Those lips never cursed anyone, never even criticised anyone. Those eyes were beyond the possibility of seeing evil, that mind had lost the power of thinking evil. He saw nothing but good. That tremendous purity, that tremendous renunciation is the one secret of spirituality." I wish you read this book and write back if it changed you a bit. Rgds J.K.Sivan |
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