M., the Apostle and the Evangelist by Unknown

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Language: eng
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Published: 2012-12-27T02:29:19+00:00

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M. looks in and stands speechless. M. wonders if it is Sukadeva before him that talks of the Lord? M. feels as if he were standing on a spot to which have come together the various holy places of pilgrimage to hear the Divine Preacher that is seated before him. It might have been the Lord Gauranga Deva (Chaitanya) seated before him with Ramananda, Swarup and other beloved disciples in the Holy Land of Puri, singing forth the sacred name of the Beloved Lord and His glorious works.

[Renunciation of work for the Lord]

Sri Ramakrishna speaks, saying: “Suppose at the Name of the Lord your hair stands on end or tears of joy start from your eyes; verily I say unto you the term is over of your ‘work for the Lord’; for instance, the daily service (sandhya), morning, noon and evening, laid down for the twice-born. Then and not till then have you the right to give up work (karma); then indeed work will drop off of itself. When this state of the soul is reached, the devotee need only repeat the name of the Lord (Rama, Hari or simply the symbol Om). That will suffice, no other work need be done.”

Again says the Master: Sandhya ends in Gayatri (the Vedic Mantra...); Gayatri in the simple symbol Om; (Vedic symbol for Supreme Being...).

M. is staying in Baranagore (near Dakshineshwar). He has come with Sidhu, a friend, to the Temple-garden in the course of an evening walk. It is Sunday and M. is free from work.

In the course of his walk M. had first visited the garden-house of P. Banerjee.

There Sidhu had said to him, “There is a beautiful garden on the bank of the Ganges.

Let us go there. A holy man dwells there called the Paramahamsa.”

M. stands speechless! He thinks within himself: How charming is this place! What a man! How sweet and charming are his words! The very idea of leaving this place troubles the soul. But let me first look about and form a clear idea of the Temple. I will then come back and sit at his feet.

M. comes out of the room into the quadrangle. He begins to visit the temples of God the Father (Siva), of God Incarnate as Love (Radhakanta) and lastly, that of God the Mother (Kali – God in His relation to the conditioned and the finite, as distinguished from Brahman or God the Absolute).

It is evening – the time of Divine Service. The priests are waving the lights before the sacred images to the accompaniment of bells, cymbals and drums. From the southern end of the Temple-garden is wafted upon the soft southern breeze, sweet music, melody played by the temple orchestra upon flagesletes and other instruments.

That music is carried far over the bosom of the Ganges until it is lost in the distant Immensity! The breeze that blows from the south, how gentle and fragrant with the sweet fragrance that comes from many a flower! The moon is just up and the temple and the garden are soon bathed in the soft silvery light.

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