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Holy Mother By Swami Nikhilananda: 122 19-05-2016

19-05-2016 Thursday
Holy Mother By Swami Nikhilananda: 122

Spiritual Practices – 01

THE TENDER PLANT of Sarada Devi’s spiritual life which later grew into a mighty tree, giving shelter to many a seeker of God, developed silently in the holy atmosphere of Dakshineswar. About this significant period of her life Sarada Devi gave only a few hints to her devotees, which we shall narrate in this chapter.

Sri Ramakrishna began to train Sarada Devi in the practice of spiritual disciplines. To her he was teacher, father, mother, companion, husband, and God Himself. He revealed himself to her in two different ways: as the demonstration of the eternal principles of all religions, and also as her Ishta-devata, her Chosen Ideal, or the Personal God. God no doubt pervades the whole creation as Satchitananda, Existence-Knowledge-Bliss. But He is manifest more through animate beings than through inanimate nature. Among animate beings He is manifest more through man than through subhuman beings, more through saints than through ordinary worldly persons. But He manifests himself in the highest measure through a God-man, who, though living in the world is completely detached from it, who is constantly absorbed in God-consciousness, and who, to quote Sri Ramakrishna’s words, ‘sings, dances, and forgets himself in divine ecstasy.’

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Holy Mother - Being the Life of Sri Sarada Devi Wife of Sri Ramakrishna And Helpmate in his Mission By Swami Nikhilananda p: 80

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