A Unified Vedantic Platform from Ramakrishna Math & Mission
Swami Vivekananda’s divine experience at a lake in America is described as a sudden, overwhelming realization of Oneness, in which the whole world seemed to dissolve and merge into the Akasha, and then even the Akasha and the ego-consciousness vanished. Coming…
During the period of his stay in Brindavan he obtained most of their food by begging. Generally it consisted of some bits of roti collected from many houses. These were not sufficient even for a single meal. One day the quantity obtained was even less than…
The Ootacamund hills had a spiritual tranquillity which easily lifted his mind to a higher level of experience. As he sat one day looking out at the blue hills spreading in front like the waves of a sea, he felt as though something emerged out of his body,…
Although Latu Maharaj could not read the scriptures himself, he showed great interest in hearing them and would ask others to read to him. Swami Shuddhananda recalled: “I remember an occasion when I slept in the same room with Latu Maharaj. At midnight he got…
Sri Ramakrishna’s Advaita experience of Nirvikalpa Samadhi is closely tied to the guidance and presence of Totapuri at Dakshineswar, and the historical reminiscences preserve both the inner nature of the state and the outward signs by which it was recognized.
On the day of my sannyāsa, I felt that Sri Maharaj was vibrating with a wonderful spiritual fervour. After the homa etc., when I paid my obeisance to him, he put his hand on my head and I immediately had the experience of a vast Presence as if he, the world…