Next. Ramak : RMAK"RI"SH"N"A. Such a man was Rmak"ri"sh"n"a, who has lately obtained considerable celebrity both in India and America, where his disciples have been actively engaged in preaching his gospel and winning converts to his doctrines, even among Christian audiences. This may seem very strange, nay...
Introduction. Pawari Baba : PAWRI BBA. The second Saint was Pawri Bba of Ghazipur. Little Is known of him, but his recent death has created a painful p. 14 sensation all over India. He had lived for about thirty years at Ghazipur, and was venerated as a Saint by the whole native community. The last nine years, however, he had...
Introduction. The Four Stages Of Life : THE FOUR STAGES OF LIFE. The life of a Brahman was, according to the Laws of Manu, divided into four periods or "s"ramas, that of a pupil or Brhma"k"rin, that of a householder or G"ri"hastha, of an ascetic or Vnaprastha, and of a hermit or Yati. 1 The first and second stages are clear enough; they...
The Sayings Of Ramakrishna. The Sayings. Part 03 : THE SAYINGS OF RMAK"RI"SH"N"A: 100-199 100. A man who finds all the hairs of his body standing on end at the bare mention of "S"r Hari's name, through sheer ecstasy, and who sheds tears of love on hearing the name of God, he has reached his last birth. 101. The more you scratch the ringworm...
Introduction. Rai Shaligram Saheb Bahadur : RAI SHALIGRM SAHEB BAHADUR. One more case and I have done with my imperfect sketch of the stage on which Rmak"ri"sh"n"a appears before us to act his part, together with his fellow-actors who supported and often guided him in his unselfish and devoted endeavours. We read in the Prabuddha Bhrata, May...
Introduction. Ramakrishna's Life : RMAK"RI"SH"N"A'S LIFE. Rmak"ri"sh"n"a, we are told, was born in the village of Kamrpukar, in the Zillah Hugli, situated about four miles to the west of the Jahnbad subdivision, and thirty-two miles south of Burdwan. His life on earth began on the 20th of February, 1833, and ended the 16th of August...
Introduction. Ramakrishna's Wife : p. 64 RMAK"RI"SH"N"A'S WIFE. Another charge which Mozoomdar seems to consider as proved against Rmak"ri"sh"n"a is what he calls his almost barbarous treatment of his wife. What he means is evidently that he forgot or neglected her till she was seventeen years of age. But this can hardly be called...
Introduction. Mozoomdar's Judgement : MOZOOMDAR'S JUDGEMENT. Fortunately in our case we have the testimony not only of Viveknanda, who, as a devoted disciple of Rmak"ri"sh"n"a, might be suspected of partiality, but we have several independent witnesses, some favourable, others unfavourable. Mozoomdar must be counted as a favourable...
Introduction. Ramakrishna's Influence : p. 66 RMAK"RI"SH"N"A'S INFLUENCE ON KESHUB CHUNDER SEN. A more painful misunderstanding has arisen with regard to the exact relationship between Rmak"ri"sh"n"a and Keshub Chunder Sen. A disciple may mean many things, but Keshub Chunder Sen was never chary in giving credit where credit was due...
The Sayings Of Ramakrishna. The Sayings. Part 02 : THE SAYINGS OF RMAK"RI"SH"N"A: 200-299 200. Creeds and sects matter nothing. Let every one perform with faith the devotions and practices of his creed. Faith is the only clue to get to God. 201. He who has faith has all, and he who wants faith wants all. 202. The faith-healers of India order their...
The Sayings Of Ramakrishna. The Sayings. Part 04 : p. 98 THE SAYINGS OF RMAK"RI"SH"N"A 1. 1-99 1. Thou seest many stars at night in the sky, but findest them not when the sun rises. Canst thou say that there are no stars, then, in the heaven of day? So, O man, because thou beholdest not the Almighty in the days of thy ignorance, say not that there...
Untitled : RMAK"RI"SH"N"A HIS LIFE AND SAYINGS BY F. MAX MLLER [1898] Ramakrishna (1833-86), was a Bengali Hindu sage. Although theoretically a high-caste Brahamin by birth, he came from a poor, low-caste village and had little or no education. He did not know a word of Sanskrit and his knowledge of the Ved...
Introduction. Samnyasins Or Saints : SA"M"NYSINS OR SAINTS. Similar ideas existed already among the Brahmans, and we meet among them, even before the rise of Buddhism, p. 7 with men who had shaken off all social fetters who had left their home and family, lived by themselves in forests or in caves, abstained from all material...
Introduction. The Dialogic Process : p. 25 THE DIALOGIC PROCESS. Such as it is, it will give us an insight into the way in which a new religion, or rather a new sect, springs up and grows. It will place before our eyes the transformation which mere repetition, conversation, or what is called oral tradition will and must produce...
Introduction. Ascetic Exercises Or Yoga : p. 8 ASCETIC EXERCISES OR YOGA. Within certain limits Yoga seems to be an excellent discipline, and, in one sense, we ought all to be Yogins. Yoga, as a technical term, means application, concentration, effort; the idea that it meant originally union with the deity has long been given up. This...
Introduction. Remarks On Ramakrishna's Life : REMARKS ON RMAK"RI"SH"N"A'S LIFE. This is all that Viveknanda sent me when I had asked him to write down whatever he could gather from his own memory and from communication with Rmak"ri"sh"n"a's other disciples. I had warned him repeatedly not to send me p. 60 mere fables, such as I had read...
Introduction. Ramakrishna's Language : RMAK"RI"SH"N"A'S LANGUAGE. His speech at times was abominably filthy. For all that, he was, as you say, a real Mahtman, and I would not withdraw a single word I wrote in his praise. Rmak"ri"sh"n"a was not in the least a Vedntist, except that every Hindu unconsciously imbibes from the atmosphere...
Introduction. The Sayings Of Ramakrishna : THE SAYINGS OF RMAK"RI"SH"N"A. His sayings or Logia were collected and written down by his pupils, in Bengli; some were translated into Sanskrit p. 96 and into English. There are many that remind us of old Sanskrit sayings, of which there are several collections, all, however, in metrical form...
Introduction. Final Conclusion, Tat Tvamasi : p. 91 FINAL CONCLUSION, TAT TVAMASI. Then follows the final conclusion that these two Selfs are one and the same, only reached by different methods. Man is man phenomenally, the world is world phenomenally, the gods of the world are gods phenomenally, but in full reality all are the Godhead, call...
Introduction. Dayananda Sarasvati : DAYNANDA SARASVAT. Of the life of the first, of Daynanda Sarasvat, we have very full accounts. He initiated a great reform of Brahmanism, and seems to have been a liberal-minded man, so far as social reforms were concerned. He also was willing to surrender his belief in the divine revelati...
Introduction. Debendranath Tagore : DEBENDRANTH TAGORE. The same applies to Debendranth Tagore, the friend and constant patron of Keshub Chunder Sen. Though he was the head of a wealthy and influential family, he spent most of his life in retirement from the world, in study, meditation, and contemplation. He has reached now what is...
Title Page : p. iii RMAK"RI"SH"N"A HIS LIFE AND SAYINGS BY THE RIGHT HON. F. MAX MLLER, K.M. LATE FOREIGN MEMBER OF THE FRENCH INSTITUTE "From The" Collected Edition Of Prof. Max Mller's Works, LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON, E.C.. NEW YORK, TORONTO BOMBAY, CALCUTTA AND MADRAS [1898]...
Introduction. Ramakrishna : RMAK"RI"SH"N"A. The few cases mentioned here may suffice to show that Rmak"ri"sh"n"a was by no means a solitary instance, and that, however much the old social system of the Four Stages as described by Manu may have changed, there are still Sa"m"nysins in India who live the life of the ancient...
Introduction. Ekam Advitiyam. One Without A Second : EKAM ADVITYAM. ONE WITHOUT A SECOND. If you ask, what then is real in all things and in every individual soul? the answer is, Brahman, the One without a Second, the One besides whom there is nothing; but this answer can be understood by those only who know Avidy, and by knowing it have destroyed it...
Introduction. Gnothi Seaut'on : We may try now another door for an entrance into the Vednta-philosophy, which may help in bringing the Vednta nearer to ourselves, or ourselves nearer to the Vednta, so that it may be looked upon not simply as a strange and curious system, but as a system of thought with which we can sympathise...
The Sayings Of Ramakrishna. The Sayings : THE SAYINGS OF RMAK"RI"SH"N"A: 300-395 300. The new-born calf looks very lively, blithe, and merry. It jumps and runs all day long, and only stops to suck the sweet milk from its darn. But no sooner is the rope placed round its neck than it begins to pine away gradually, and, far from being merry...
Introduction. The Mahatmans : p. 1 THE LIFE AND SAYINGS OF RMAK"RI"SH"N"A THE MAHTMANS. IT is not many years since I felt called upon to say a few words on certain religious movements now going on in India, which seemed to me to have been very much misrepresented and misunderstood at home. To people who are unacquainted with...
Preface : p. v PREFACE THE name of Rmak"ri"sh"n"a has lately been so often mentioned in Indian, American, and English newspapers that a fuller account of his life and doctrine seemed to me likely to be welcome, not only to the many who take an interest in the intellectual and moral state of India, but...
Introduction. Vedanta Philosophy : VEDNTA-PHILOSOPHY. If now we return to Rmak"ri"sh"n"a, I can assure Keshub's zealous advocate that I never looked upon Rmak"ri"sh"n"a as the originator of the Vednta-philosophy. He was not a man possessed of a scholarlike knowledge of the ancient system of the Vednta-philosophy, nor do I feel...
