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OM Namah Sivaya "In God there are both Vidya Maya and Avidya Maya. The Vidya Maya takes man towards God, whereas the Avidya Maya leads him astray. Knowledge, devotion, dispassion, compassion - all theses are expressions of Vidya Maya; only with their help one reach God." "Woman and gold, remember, keep men immersed in worldliness and away from God." ---- Sri Ramakrishna Please note "Woman and gold" one must specially bear in mind that Sri Ramakrishna is propounding no cult of woman hatered. His attitude towards woman kind was one of profound respect bordering on worship. For he saw in them a symbol of the Divine Mother of the universe in a special sense. It was in this light that he himself viewed all women, and he wanted his devotees also to cultivate the same attitude. But at the same time he impressed on his disciples that when viewed with a sensual eye, woman was the greatest danger to the spiritual aspirant.Of course by 'woman' he meant 'sex', but the great teacher that he was , with deep insight into the working of the human mind, he preferred to use the concrete for the abstract and always spoke of the bondage of 'woman' and not of 'sex'. His motive must have been purely psychological; for

speaking on the same subject of his women devotees, he used to warn them against the dangers from 'man'.Since his teachings were all recorded by men devotees, we naturally get warning against dangers from 'woman' only, and not from 'man'. Gold stands for all the material things that men value and like to possess. Sri Sarada Devi was born on the 22nd of December 1853 in Jayrambati, a village near Sri Ramakrishna’s village of Kamarpukur in West Bengal, India. At about five years of age, in accordance with the customs prevalent in

India of that time, the Holy Mother was married to Sri Ramakrishna. It was more in the nature of a betrothal. After the event, she continued to live with her parents while Sri Ramakrishna lived a God-intoxicated life at the Dakshineshwar Kali Temple.At eighteen, hearing of Sri Ramakrishna’s reported insanity, the Holy Mother asked her father to take her to Dakshineshwar to see if this was really so and to be able to serve him. They reached Dakshineswar and were welcomed by Sri Ramakrishna. The Holy Mother was relieved to see his ‘insanity’ was nothing but the idle gossip of worldly minds that could not understand his exalted spiritual state. But, what of Sri Ramakrishna? As the fear rose in his mind that his young wife would pull him into a worldly married life, he asked her directly: “Do you want to drag me into Maya?” Prompt came the Holy Mother’s reply: “Why should I do that?’ she said. “I have come only to help you in the path of religious life.” When

she in turn asked how he looked at her, Sri Ramakrishna said: “I look upon you … as the embodiment of Motherhood.” Re-assured of her innate spirituality and renunciation, Sri Ramakrishna proceeded to instruct her in every aspect of religious life. This culminated in his worship of her as Shodashi – a form of Mother Kali - thus awakening the Universal Motherhood latent in her. Sivaya Namah

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