SWAMIJI

ON

SRI THAKUR
To remove all the corruption in religion

the Lord has incarnated Himself on ear

in the present age in the person of

SRI RAMAKRISHNA.

The universal teachings that He offered

if spread all over the world, will do goo

to humanity and the World.

Not for many a century past has India

produced so great, so wonderful,

a teacher of religious synthesis.

India has suffered long,

the religion eternal has suffered long.

But the Lord is merciful.

Once more He has come to help His children

once more the opportunity to rise is given to

fallen India.

India can only rise by sitting at the feet of

Sri Ramakrishna.

His life and His teachings are to be spread

far and wide,

are to be made to penetrate every pore of

Hindu Society.
Ramakrishna is not what the ordinary follow

have comprehended him to be.

He had infinite moods and phases.

Even if you might form an idea of the limits

Brahmajnana, you could not have any idea o

the unfathomable depths of his mind!

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa is the latest a

the most perfect – the concentrated embodim

of knowledge, love, renunciation, catholicity a

the desire to serve mankind.

So where is anyone to compare with him?

He must have been born in vain who cannot

appreciate Him!

My supreme good fortune is that I am His

Servant through life after life.

A single word of His is to me far weightier tha

the Vedas and the Vedanta.

 life of Sri Ramakrishna was an extraordinary

chlight under whose illumination one is able

eally understand the whole scope of Hindu

gion.

Bhagawan Ramakrishna is the reformed and

odeled manifestation of all the past great

ch-makers in religion.

an! Have faith in this, and lay it to heart.

From the very date that Sri Ramakrishna was

born, has sprung the Sathya Yuga (Golden Age

Henceforth there is no end to all sorts of

distinctions, and everyone down to the chanda

will be a sharer in the divine love.

The distinction between man and woman,

between the rich and the poor, the literate and

illiterate, Brahmins and Chandalas, - he lived t

root out all.

And he was the harbinger of Peace.