Ramakrishna and Dayananda

[Guest guest]

Dear members,

 

Do any of you out there have any information or references on the metting of

Swami Dayanand Saraswati of the Arya Samaj, with Shri Ramakrishnaji?

 

Or, does anybody know the Paramhansa's or Vivekananda's thoughts towards the

Samaj?

 

Any information would be greatly appreciated!

 

-R

[Guest guest]

Namaste,

 

In Sw. Saradanandaji's biography of Thakurji, [Vol. II,p.635; 5th

revised ed. 1979]:

" Once Swami Dayananda Sarasvati, the founder of the Arya Samaj, came

to Bengal on a tour and lived for some time in a gentleman's garden in

the village called Sinthi in Baranagar, situated in the north of

Calcutta. Although he was very well-known for his scholarship, he had

not then begun to preach his own doctrine, nor had he founded his

organisation. On hearing of him, one day the Master went there to pay

him a visit. In the course of a conversation on Dayananda, the Master

said to us on one occasion, " I went to see him in the garden of

Sinthi.; I found that he had acquired a little power; his chest was

always red. He was in the state of Vaikhari, speaking on scriptural

subjects night and day; by the application of grammar, he was twisting

the meaning of many words. He had in his mind the egoism , 'I will do

something, I will preach a doctrine.' "

 

Sw. Vivekananda's biography by his Eastern and Western disciples,

has many references to Swamiji's visits to various Arya Samaj

institutions, where h was cordially received and listend to. He

compared Arya Samaj to Jainism and Brahmo Samj to Buddhism. He had to

intervene in settking some antagonisms between Arya Samaj and Muslims

also.

 

Regards,

 

Sunder

 

 

Ramakrishna, <guruvayu506@x> wrote:

> Dear members,

>

> Do any of you out there have any information or references on the

metting of Swami Dayanand Saraswati of the Arya Samaj, with Shri

Ramakrishnaji?

>

> Or, does anybody know the Paramhansa's or Vivekananda's thoughts

towards the Samaj?

>

> Any information would be greatly appreciated!

>

> -R

[Guest guest]

Please see Vol. I of Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita, Section XIII, 26

October, 1884 :

 

Dayananda saw Sri Ramakrishna and witnessed him

in the state of samadhi, he lamented, " We people have just studied so

much of the Veda and Vedanta but in this great man we see its

manifestation. On seeing him it is proved that the learned only take

buttermilk when they churn the scriptures. Such great men as he only

eat butter. "

 

The above book is available online at www.kathamrita.org

 

Also see 11 October, 1884 of the same book:

 

The Pundit — I did meet Dayananda. You too met him.

 

Sri Ramakrishna — I went to meet him. He was then in a garden on the

other side (of the Ganga). Keshab Sen was supposed to come that day.

He was so eager to meet Keshab like the chatak bird (for a drop of

rainwater). He is a great savant. He made fun of the Bengali language

calling it as the `Gauranda language.' He believed in the deities but

Keshab didn't! He said, `God has made so many things. Can't He make

deities?' He believed in God without form. When the Captain repeated

the name of Rama, he said, `You had better repeated sandesh ,

sandesh.'

 

Thanks,

Nitin.