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Sri Ramakrishna's realization lifted him above all sex-consciousness
and enabled him to approach men and women with the innocence and
simplicity of a child.
He looked upon every women as the living embodiment of the Divine
Mother. Women devotees who flocked to him for spiritual guidance
and help in God-realization felt not the least scruple or
uneasiness in his presence.
He read their thoughts and understood their feelings as easily
as those of men. And as his mind was absolutely pure, it was but
natural that he evoked only the highest sentiments in them. He
advised them to renounce lust and greed for wealth, and to struggle
for God-realization.
Lives of some of his devotees including Yogi-Ma, Aghormani Devi,
Gauri-Ma and Lakshmimani Devi furnish illuminating instances of
how pure unalloyed devotion and spirit of absolute self-surrender
can bestow supreme realization on all sincere seekers irrespective
of caste or sex.
The magnetic touch of Sri Ramakrishn's divine love transformed
their lives into pure gold and made them recipients of the transcendental
bliss.
Many
among such women devotees, even though belonging to highly aristocratic
families,flung to the winds all social conventions and sometimes walked
the whole distance from Calcutta to Dakshineswar in their eagerness
to hear words of wisdom from Sri Ramakrishna.
The Master, with his usual love and readiness, fulfilled the aspirations
of these earnest souls and thus built up a brilliant group of
women devotees.
But no life was so angelic and impressive, so simple and yet sublime,
as that of the Masters own consort, Sarada Devi, who enjoyed the
unique privilege of living intimately with him and receiving for
years the requisite spiritual training.
Her life of intense Sadhana, under the affectionate guidance of
the Master, culminating in supreme spiritual realization, is a
luminous instances of how conjugal relationship can be spiritualized.
She was, in fact, an ideal wife as well as as a superb nun. Her
life was one long stillness of prayer. With her infinite patience
and overflowing motherly love, the Holy Mother was a never-failing
source of solace to all troubled souls that sought refuge in her.
Her life was a marvelous synthesis of knowledge and devotion,
Yoga and work. No wonder that Sri Ramakrishna, at the conclusion
of his spiritual practices, worshipped her as the personification
of the Divine Mother.
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