In spite of all the spiritual experiences and visions Hriday had attained by the grace of Sri Ramakrishna, he was basically a family man. Shortly after the first year’s Durga Puja, he married a second …
“Rascal, You Want to Make Me a Worldly Man?”
Sometime before Sri Ramakrishna started to practise nondualistic Vedanta, his mother moved to Dakshineswar from Kamarpukur. Mathur had great regard for her and would call her “Grandma.” Mathur was …
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Ramkanai Ghosal: Father of Swami Shivananda
Ramakrishna recognized Tarak as one of his inner circle. Later Tarak reminisced: One day Sri Ramakrishna said: “Well, so many people come here. I seldom ask anyone about his home and family, or …
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“I Don’t Disturb Anyone’s Faith.”
On another occasion when Devendra visited Dakshineswar, the Master said to him: “You see, I am thinking deeply of a woman whom I have not seen for a long time.” This immediately created a doubt in …
“S.S.Lusitania Is No More” – Swami Abhedananda
This incident happened in the life of Swami Abhedananda: On 7 May 1915, during World War I, a British liner was destroyed by a German submarine in the Atlantic Ocean, near the Cork coast of Ireland. …
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‘Wait and see what happens.’ – Sri Ramakrishna
During the year 1897, Murshidabad in Bengal was reeling under severe drought. When Swami Akhandananda went there, he saw death and decay everywhere. In the villages, he saw emaciated cattle and their …
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