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What was Ramakrishna? God manifest in a human being; but behind there is God in His infinite impersonality and His universal Personality. page 98 −Thoughts and Aphorisms ,
The Hour Of God Volume-17 , SABCL |
Of all these souls Sri Ramakrishna was
the last and greatest, for while others felt God in a single or
limited aspect, he felt Him in His illimitable unity as the sum of an
illimitable variety. In him the spiritual experiences of the millions
of saints who had gone before were renewed and united. Sri
Ramakrishna gave to India the final message of Hinduism to the world.
A new era dates from his birth, an era in which the peoples of the
earth will be lifted for a while into communion with God and
spirituality become the dominant note of human life. What
Christianity failed to do, what Mahomedanism strove to accomplish in
times as yet unripe, what Buddhism half-accomplished for a brief
period and among a limited number of men, Hinduism as summed up in
the life of Sri Ramakrishna has to attempt for all the world. This is
the reason of India's resurgence, this is why God has breathed life
into her once more, why great souls are at work to bring about her
salvation, why a sudden change is coming over the hearts of her sons.
The movement of which the first outbreak was political, will end in a
spiritual consummation. |