One day during his travels in the Himalayas, Vivekananda sat for meditation under a pipal tree by the side of a stream. There he experienced the oneness of the universe and man — that man is a …
Weed Them Out, Boys!
Swami Gnaneswarananda recalled: One time we were weeding the Math garden. Swami Premananda was watching us and he noticed that one of the boys was not pulling the weeds out by the roots. He called …
Sri Ramakrishna about Curing His Own Disease
Pandit Shashadhar asks the Master to cure his own disease through yogic power: his response. We cannot resist relating another event regarding the depth of the Master’s nondual knowledge. At this …
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Highest Ideal is to Love and Serve Human Beings
In June 1892 Akhandananda reached Jamnagar, where he lived for a year. There he started his mission — the service of God in man. He lived with a doctor, Kaviraj Manishankar, for four months and …
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‘Please keep quiet now. I see the Master and the Mother.’ – Akshay Kumar Sen
Akshay Kumar Sen has been initiated by Sri Ramakrishna. He has obtained the gracious blessings from Mother and Swamiji. The Holy Mother had told Akshay, ‘There will be a little suffering towards the …
“The Very Contact of Money is Bad.”
Temptation is the test of renunciation. All great teachers of the world have had to face this trial. Sri Ramakrishna was no exception. Hriday once conspired secretly with Lakshminarayan Marwari to get …
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