Showing posts with label Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa. Show all posts

Friday, December 7, 2007

Short stories and Parables by Sri Ramakrishna

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Cover (Photo credit: Wikipedia)



Below is the list of some of short stories and parables narrated by Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa




The video is about Sri Ramakrishna Paramhamsha a great
Saint and a great narrator of Parables. Sri Ramakirhna used parables to give spiritual insights and understanding, much like Gautam Buddha and Jesus Christ did. As stated in the video, parables illustrates religious and spiritual teachings in a simple way. The parables can give a good impact on the mind and easy to remember.

It could be hard to grasp that the great teacher, who transformed so many lives and minds, was uneducated. The parables he used came from his high spiritual state of mind rater than read and learned or gathered information. Most of His parables comes from Indian village life and Indian Spiritual understanding. The Westerners sometimes find it difficult visualizing these parables. Aldous Huxley, while writing a foreword to "Gospel Of Sri Ramakrishna", a great book having the qualities written about Sri SaiSatCharitra, wrote that the feelings and experience are entirely Indian. However, i would like to say they are entirely human and spiritual.

Gospel of Sri RamaKrishna contains many parables good and simple enough for parents, teachers and Children.

The video clip is from the DVD called 'The Parables of Sri RamaKrishna' available at www.vedantastl.org. I will be the one buying this DVD online from that source, surely i should not be missing it.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Parable on Anger by Shri Ramakrishna Paramhamsa






This short story is a part of - Short Stories by Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Happened to see a nice parable on Anger by Shri Ramakrishna Paramhamsha at Avatar Meher Baba's site. This is real good one with great insight and Inspiration as all the parables that were told by the great Master.

There is a ... good illustration of the nature of anger given by the Perfect Master Ramakrishna. He was from the area around Calcutta and the Ganges flowed by his ashram. One day Ramakrishna was standing by the river with his disciples and, pointing to a boat moving upstream, he gave this parable on anger.

The boatman rowing upstream sees another boat, far off, moving downstream towards him. He shouts. "Hey, watch out! Change your course, look out!" But the boat continues to rush towards him and, as it comes closer, he sees that there is nobody in the boat. Now is he going to continue to yell at the boat to change its course? No, he is simply going to change his own course and steer around the onrushing boat.

Ramakrishna said, "The one who is angry is like a boat which has no captain. When you see there is no captain, steer away. Don't stand and throw words back at the boat in anger. Steer aside. Otherwise neither boat has a captain."


Thursday, May 10, 2007

Give and only give - a true story about selflessness

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Ramakrishna Paramhansacommons:Image:Ramakrishna.jpg (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This is a story of a little known, gentle, mystic figure, Durgacharan Naag was his name. Popularly known as Naag Mahashaya, he came under the influence of the great saint of modern India, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa, who so blessed him that he became a blessing to many!

Naag Mahashaya became the very picture of humility and selflessness, of self denial and self-abnegation. He wanted nothing for himself. He was poor in the wealth of the world, but never did any beggar return from his door empty handed.

One day, Naag Mahashaya had only a few grains of rice left. He had not eaten the whole day and he was getting ready to cook those few grains of rice, when a man came to his door for begging, “I have not had a morsel of food for the last two days, won’t you give me something to eat?”

Naag Mahashaya forgot that he was hungry, that he had starved the whole day.

He did not say to himself, “Let me share this rice with poor man. Let me give him half, and keep the half for myself.”

Instead, in his benevolence, he gave away all he had, for in that beggar he beheld a living, moving image of his God—the God whom he worshipped in the shrine of the heart within. He parted with all that he had and rejoicing as he sang, “Not mine but Thine be the glory, O Lord! Blessed be Thy name!”


You might also like to enjoy a nice video called Sri Ramakrishna's life from yotube videos.