WE MEDITATE ON THE RESPLENDENT SUPREME PURUSHA

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Salutations to Thakur, Guru, and Ma!

 

 

 

It is 19 October 1884, the first day of the bright fortnight of the month of

Kartik, the day next to the Kali Puja. This is the time for the Sharat

Festiviity (Autumn Festival) In the beautitiful garden house of Veni Madhava

Pal, a session of the Brahmo Samaj is being held again.

 

The Paramahansa Deva reaches at half past four. His carraige stops in the

middle of the garden. Immediately, the devotees come and sit all around him

encircling him.

 

Today, again, the devotees would hear the chant of the Vedas coming from the

holy lips of Thakur--the chant which emanated from the mouths of the Aryan

rishis in the form of Vedas; the chant which was once heard by the twelve

unlettered fishermen disciples from the mouth of Jesus--the supreme sannyasin

in a human form, his mind and soul fixed in Brahman, solicitous for the

sufferings of mankind, the gracious loving Lord of the bhaktas, the

God-incarnate and surcharged with the love of Hari; the chant which came out of

the mouth of Bhagavan Sri Krishna in the form of the Srimad Bhagavata Gita in

the holy field of Kurekshetra. The nectarine words Gudakesha (Arjuna), the son

of Kunti, the humbly earnest had heard amidst sounds of thunder from the mouth

of Guru Satchitananda who had come down in human form and served as charioteer--

 

 

 

Kavim puranam anushasitaram

 

anor anyyamsam anusmared yah.

 

Sarvasya dhataram achintya rupam,

 

adityavarnam tamasah parastat. (Gita 8:9)

 

Praynakale manasa achalena

 

bhaktya yukto yogabalena cha eva.

 

Bhruvor madhye pranam aveshya samyak

 

sa tam praram purusham upaiti divyam (Gita 8:10)

 

Yad aksharam vedavido vadanti

 

vishanti yad yatayo vitaragah.

 

Yad icchanto brahmacharyan charanti

 

tat te padam samgrahena pravaksye. (Gita 8:11)

 

 

 

[The Omniscient, the Ancient, the Ruler, Minuter than an atom,

 

the Supporter of all, of Form inconceivable, Effulgent like the sun,

 

and Beyond all darkness; he who meditates on this Resplendent,

 

Supreme Purusha, at the time of death, with a steady mind, devotion

 

and strength of yoga, well fixing the entire Prana in the middle of the

 

eye-brows, he reaches Him---

 

That which the knowers of the Vedas call the Imperishable,

 

and into which enter the sannyasins, self-controlled and freed from

 

attachment, and desiring which they lead a life of continence.

 

OM.

 

 

 

Satchitananda

 

Kathy

 

 

 

(SRI SRI RAMAKRISHNA KATHAMRITA. Vol. I., 275-276)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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