[Pictured: the Kasipur [Cossipore] Garden House where Sri Ramakrishna left his human body]
[2nd President and Spiritual Head: the Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa]
[now a Centre of the international Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission]
DAILY READINGS
Selected from Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji.
Day 905
Do not underestimate Sri Ramakrishna. It is not for nothing that he is known as the embodiment of all the deities of the past, present and the future [see footnote]. You may not understand the term 'the future'. But in our scriptures it is written what avatars [incarnations] God will take in the future. It is already written there what form the Lord will come in. So the meaning is that Master himself will have to come in all the future avatars as well.
Sri Ramakrishna, towards the end of his earthly life, was suffering from cancer. [See Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna for history of this period] You know he suffered. God in a body suffers too [part of the divine Lila, or play]. Christ suffered too. If Christ did not suffer, we would not know how to suffer. They suffered and taught us how to become above suffering. How? By relying on God Himself.
One day Master [when his body was very ill with cancer, at the Kasipur garden house, pictured above] was resting with the devotees around him. He could hardly speak. For a few moments the Master went off to sleep so the devotees decided to go outside and have a little rest. They went and sat under the trees in the garden and were discussing various things amongst themselves.
Holy Mother [Sri Sarada Devi, the wife, nun consort of the master] waited in another room for half an hour or so and then went to see if the Master was awake, whether he needed anything. But as she entered his room, she found Sri Ramakrishna walking rapidly from the back door and running up to his bed. She was very surprised and said, 'Just now you were very sick, you could not walk, you could not drink anything, you were so sick .....?' Master said to her, 'Sshh, don't tell anybody about it. You see, where the boys [the future Swami Vivekananda and other disciples] are seated there was a big snake, and the snake would have harmed my children. So I just went to chase it away.'
These little things you must read. When you read the scripture, you must look for these things. They are there to give us faith.
Footnote: Mantra: AUM aim sarva deva devi svaroopaya Sri Ramakrishnaya namah. Meaning: I prostrate to Sri Ramakrishna, who is the consciousness of all the gods and goddesses.
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The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna - read online
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