Post by scarletharlot on Apr 11, 2012 20:51:50 GMT -8
Many people have heard of Mahatma Gandhi, but relatively few people in the West have ever heard of "Swami Vivekananda" and even fewer who know that until his death in 1902, he was Gandhi's spiritual advisor. Most people also do not know that it was due to Vivekananda that Gandhi took up the cudgel for his native India.
Gandhi threw off the trappings of the prosperous Anglo-Indian lawyer he had become among the British and renounced their garb to resume the dhoti and the customs of his forefathers, and take up the fight for independence from British rule in this most remarkable "Holy Land".
But even fewer people know that Vivekananda was the favoured disciple of Shri Ramakrishna, who was the Worshipful Master of the Temple, within the precincts of an actual Kali "Temple".
To continue the analogy, Vivekananda was "Senior Warden" promoted by Ramakrishna's death in 1886 to 'Worshipful Master'.
The analogy is exact; it is known for sure that Vivekananda was an officially raised Freemason.
Or that Ramakrishna's wife, Shri Sarada Devi, the living manifestation of the Black Virgin of Dakshineswar,who carried on his mission for thirty four years, became, quite literally, Vivekananda's object of worship as a living manifestation of the Divine intil his death at age 39, in 1902.
I remember once hearing something to the effect that "If Jesus were to incarnate today, he could only do so in India" because only there do they have the necessary level of spiritual development. to aloow the fostering of the temperament fully devoted to the acquisition of the "Knowledge Of and Conversation with, the Holy Guardian Angel."
It is a fact that at one time, Shri Ramakrishna had at his beck and call, 24 hours a day, one of the richest men in India: Mathur Babu. Thus, with such a guardian, Shri Ramakrishna was free to "lose himself in God".
Gandhi threw off the trappings of the prosperous Anglo-Indian lawyer he had become among the British and renounced their garb to resume the dhoti and the customs of his forefathers, and take up the fight for independence from British rule in this most remarkable "Holy Land".
But even fewer people know that Vivekananda was the favoured disciple of Shri Ramakrishna, who was the Worshipful Master of the Temple, within the precincts of an actual Kali "Temple".
To continue the analogy, Vivekananda was "Senior Warden" promoted by Ramakrishna's death in 1886 to 'Worshipful Master'.
The analogy is exact; it is known for sure that Vivekananda was an officially raised Freemason.
Or that Ramakrishna's wife, Shri Sarada Devi, the living manifestation of the Black Virgin of Dakshineswar,who carried on his mission for thirty four years, became, quite literally, Vivekananda's object of worship as a living manifestation of the Divine intil his death at age 39, in 1902.
I remember once hearing something to the effect that "If Jesus were to incarnate today, he could only do so in India" because only there do they have the necessary level of spiritual development. to aloow the fostering of the temperament fully devoted to the acquisition of the "Knowledge Of and Conversation with, the Holy Guardian Angel."
It is a fact that at one time, Shri Ramakrishna had at his beck and call, 24 hours a day, one of the richest men in India: Mathur Babu. Thus, with such a guardian, Shri Ramakrishna was free to "lose himself in God".