EXPERIENCE OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA WITH RADHA RANI

EXPERIENCE OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA WITH RADHA RANI 

So tradition says that it is impossible for one to be blessed with a vision of Sri Krishna unless one first obtains the grace of Sri Radha, whose pure love has for ever enthralled Sri Krishna.

Sri Ramakrishna now appreciated the value of this

propitiatory worship of Sri Radha and began to pray to her with single-minded devotion. Within a short time, Radha revealed herself to him. This time also he felt the figure vanish into his own body. The Master used to say: 

"It is impossible to describe the heavenly beauty and sweetness ot Radha. Her very appearance showed that she had completely forgotten all personal considerations in her passionate attachment to Krishna. Her complexion was light yellow."

After this vision Sri Ramakrishna began to feel himself to be Radha. It was his constant meditation on her character that obliterated his own personality and transformed him into another Radha. Now was fully manifested in him that supreme passion and attachment which characterised her. He was the very picture of Mahabhava. The Brahmani and the learned devotees like Vaishnav Charan were amazed at this and found it to be identical with the unique state of Radha described in the Puranas, and of Sri Chaitanya, hundreds of years later. The Master referring to this period of his Sadhana said : "The manitestation, in the same individual, of nineteen different kinds of emotion for God is designated in the books on Bhakti as Mahabhava. An ordinary man takes a whole life time to express even a single one of these. But in this body (meaning himself) there has been a perfect manifestation of all nineteen."

The way to God . As Taught by Sri Ramakrishna. 

By Swami Lokeshwarananda.

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