0995.Encounters With Shri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Poem by christopher Lee

Love for Love’s sake
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The Master said: 'The bliss of worship and communion with God is the true wine, the wine of ecstatic love.

The goal of human life is to love God,

Bhakti is the one essential thing.

To know God through jnana and reasoning is extremely difficult.'
In the previous episode we saw master comparing Jnana and Bhakthi; Master confirmed that combination of Jnana and Bhakthi will lead to the goal

Here Master is not approving realization of God through Jnana and reasoning

The Master said, again: 'The one goal of life is to cultivate love for God,
the love that the milkmaids, the milkmen, and the cowherd boys of Vrindavan felt for Krishna. When Krishna went away to Mathura, the cowherds roamed about weeping bitterly because of their separation from Him.'
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Let us see the following song sung by Master
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Then the Master sang:

Who is there that can understand what Mother Kali is?
Even the six darsanas are powerless to reveal Her....
Just now I saw a youthful cowherd
With a young calf in his arms;
There he stood, by one hand holding
The branch of a young tree.
'Where are You, Brother Kanai? ' he cried;
But 'Kanai' scarcely could he utter;
'Ka' was as much as he could say.
He cried, 'Where are You, Brother? '
And his eyes were filled with tears.

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When M. heard this song of the Master's, laden with love, his eyes were moist
with tears.

To understand this love we will have to turn to Sri Poigai Azvar who wonders like this;

this has reference to Sri Vishnu Sahasranamam 301—
Om Ugadhikrudae Namah:

(before that readers should know the context of his asking; I will explain; there is a total destruction and leveling (Pralayam) on 2 occasions; one on the eve of Brahma getting up from His deep sleep; this is called pralayam; second is when Sarvaeswaran merges this Brahma also into Him (end of Brahma): this is Maha Pralayam)

Poigai Azhwar’s doubt comes on the second occasion

During this Sarvaeswaran swallows the whole cosmos; Azwar wonders like this:

“ Will you be inside the cosmos after the great swallowing or Will you be outside? ”

if you go deep into this, we can make out what Azwar says; normally we are all worried about ourselves and go on appealing to Almighty for mercy; nobody is worried about His well-being

This is the love Master RK is referring to

See what Master has to say about our understanding of my Mother Maha Kali
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Sri Ramakrishna was talking to Kali, the Divine Mother of the Universe.

He said:

'Mother, everyone says, 'My watch alone is right.'

The Christians, the Brahmos, the Hindus, the Mussalmans, all say, 'My religion alone is true.' But, Mother, the fact is that nobody's watch is right. Who can truly understand Thee? “

“ But if a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.”

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See you in the next episode

Jai Kali

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