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Sarada Devi.

2006-12-05 16:30:29 · answer #1 · answered by arpita 5 · 0 0

Sarada Devi

2006-12-08 07:43:53 · answer #2 · answered by sushrut 2 · 0 0

Sarada Devi

2006-12-06 11:42:39 · answer #3 · answered by Padmini Gopalan 4 · 0 0

Sri Sharada Devi

2006-12-05 12:48:24 · answer #4 · answered by ***RaGhU*** 2 · 0 0

Sarada Devi!!

Born- 22 December, 1853
Jayrambati, West Bengal, India
Died- 20 July, 1920
Kolkata

The affectionate term "Holy Mother" refers to Sarada Devi (1853-1920), Ramakrishna's wife and spiritual counterpart. According to the custom then prevalent in India, she was betrothed to him while still a child. At the age of 18, she left her parental home Jayrambati to join her husband, who lived at Dakshineswar, some sixty miles away, near Calcutta.

By that time Ramakrishna had dedicated his body and mind to the spiritual search and lived the life of a monk. Yet he received Sarada very kindly, feeling that Divine Providence had brought her. After nursing her to recovery from an illness contracted on the journey, Ramakrishna one day asked her why she had come to join him. She replied that she had come only to help him in his chosen way, which as she well knew meant the way of complete renunciation of all earthly ties for the sake of God-realization. Thus, instead of seeking conjugal fulfillment, she became his first disciple.

Sarada Devi was a spiritual and intellectual leader in her own right. She served Ramakrishna and his disciples for many years. After Ramakrishna's passing away, she carried on his religious ministry, serving as guide and inspiration of the new spiritual movement.

Although by all accounts she was a modest and self-effacing woman, the movement started by Ramakrishna continued to grow in prominence and become quite influential in the waning days of British colonial rule. Swami Vivekananda, because he was a man and because of his family background, perhaps had more of an impact politically back in Calcutta, but Sarada Devi remained the head of the religious community in Dakshineswar. Before his death, Ramakrishna encouraged his disciples to treat her as if she were their mother, paralleling the role of Kali as the mother of humanity. She nurtured them accordingly, helping with personal matters. Moreover, she was an important interpreter and teacher of Ramakrishna's thinking for all comers.

Quotes-

"I am the mother of the righteous, I am the mother of the wicked as well. Never fear. Whenever you are in distress, just say to yourself 'I have a mother.'"
"I tell you one thing. If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; the whole world is your own."
"God is one's very own. The more intensely a person practices spiritual disciplines, the more quickly he attains to God."
"Never fear. He is ever looking after you. Do His work and practice Sadhana. A little work daily drives away idle thoughts from the mind."
"Call on the Lord who pervades the entire universe. He will shower His blessings upon you."
"The mind is rendered pure as a result of much austerities. God who is purity itself cannot be attained without austerities."

2006-12-08 02:47:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Sarada Devi.

2006-12-05 13:19:52 · answer #6 · answered by Modest 6 · 0 0

Married life
Rumours spread to Kamarpukur that Ramakrishna had gone mad as a result of over-taxing spiritual exercises at Dakshineswar. Alarmed, neighbours advised Ramakrishna’s mother that he be persuaded to marry, so that he might be more conscious of his responsibilities to the family. Far from objecting to the marriage, he, in fact, mentioned Jayrambati, three miles to the north-west of Kamarpukur, as being the village where the bride could be found at the house of one Ramchandra Mukherjee. The bride of five-years, Sarada, was found and the marriage was duly solemnised. Sarada was Ramakrishna's first disciple. He attempted to teach her everything he learnt from his various Gurus. She is believed to have mastered every religious secret as quickly as Ramakrishna had. Impressed by her religious potential, he began to treat her as the Universal Mother Herself and performed a Puja considering Sarada as veritable Tripura Sundari Devi. He said, 'I look upon you as my own mother and the Mother who is in the temple'. Ramakrishna impressed upon Sarada Devi that she was not only the mother of his young disciples, but also of the entire humanity. Initially, Sarada Devi was shy about playing this role, but slowly, she filled it with courage.

Her renunciation is believed by devotees to be a striking quality that she shared with her husband in a measure equal to, if not beyond, his. The true nature of their relationship and kinship was believed to be beyond the grasp of ordinary minds. Ramakrishna concluded, after close and constant association with her, that her relationship and attitude toward him were firmly based on a divine spiritual plane. Devotees believe that as they shared their lives, day and night, no other thought, other than that of the divine presence, arose in their minds. An account of such continued divine relationship between two souls of opposite gender is unique in religious records, not known in any of the past hagiographies. After the passing away of Ramakrishna, Sarada Devi became a religious teacher in her own rights.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramakrishna_Paramahamsa#Married_life

2006-12-06 11:55:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Mrs. Paramahamsa

2006-12-05 12:55:35 · answer #8 · answered by deevoonay 3 · 0 1

Sharada Devi or Sharadamani

2006-12-08 02:26:38 · answer #9 · answered by madura 2 · 0 0

Smt.Sarada Devi.

2006-12-05 13:01:50 · answer #10 · answered by renganathan g 2 · 0 0

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