Reminiscences
Reminiscences of Sargachhi SRIMAT SWAMI SUHITANANDA JI
(Continued from previous issue. . .)
One day, Sri Ramakrishna noticed from his room that a boy from the temple proprietor’s family was roaming around. Sri Ramakrishna asked Ramlal Dada to call the boy. When he came, Sri Ramakrishna made him sit on the smaller cot and touched him. The boy at once became still and didn’t regain consciousness for a long time. This posed a danger. There already had been trouble before when Hriday2 offered flowers at the feet of a girl belonging to the same family.3 So Ramlal Dada became nervous. Then Sri Ramakrishna asked him to fan the boy’s head. That worked, and the boy gradually regained outward consciousness; but he began to walk with a peculiar gait. Sri Ramakrishna sent him home with an escort. It seems that, upon reaching home, the boy became normal again.
Who knows how many people Sri Ramakrishna bestowed his grace on in this way? Master Mahashay has written down a little, and Sharat Maharaj too has written a little. Who knows how many incidents have remained unrecorded? Question: What is new in Sri Ramakrishna?
M a h a ra j : T h e s p e c i a l i t y o f S r i Ramakrishna is the attraction he held for young people. This had never happened before. This is because there had never been a downfall of this magnitude. That’s why he attracted young people this time. But in those days, it was difficult to find pure, good young men; then what to speak of the householders! If society had not become so degraded, would Sri Ramakrishna have come? In this village [ S a r g a c h h i ] t h e re wa s n o o n e b u t Akhandanandaji who could have established this ashrama. There was no morality in the village, and people were extremely poor In Sri Ramakrishna we see the living illustration of :
The author, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Ramakrishna Order, presents here his conversations with Swami Premeshananda (1884-1967), a disciple of Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi.
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have heard from Ramlal Dada1 that Sri Ramakrishna once asked Amrita, Dr. Sarkar’s son, to face the wall, and then began to stroke his back. That made Amrita enter into the state of samadhi. Similarly, anybody who came to Sri Ramakrishna got a taste of bliss in some such way, and that gave them a sense of peace throughout their lives even amidst hundreds of worldly engagements. As a result, they generally lost interest in worldly affairs and may have been liberated at the time of death.
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