Ramakrishna Mission (Ceylon Branch): December 2020

Sunday, December 27, 2020

Kalpataru Day & Inauguration of the Renovated Shrine 01-01-2021

Ramakrishna Mission (Ceylon Branch), Colombo.

The Programme will be Live-Streamed.

Youtube - RKM Colombo Streaming

Limited Space for Visitors conforming to COVID-19 Guidelines.

The tree under which Sri Ramakrishna blessed all on 01-01-1886.

Ramakrishna Math, Cossipore

This garden house was sanctified by Sri Ramakrishna’s stay with his disciples during the last few months of his life, as also by his mahasamadhi in 1886. It was made a branch of Ramakrishna Math in 1946.

Sri Ramakrishna on 1st January, 1886 became a special Kalpataru. 'Special'

in the following ways :

- Sri Ramakrishna will grant everyone's wish inspite of one's physical location.

- Sri Ramakrishna will deny the wishes are bad for us and only grant us those wishes which are good for us.

This helps ignorant people like us, as we do not often know, what is good for us. and often ask and wish for things which are bad for us. So Thakur makes sure, he does not grant us wishes which are bad for us.

The Master addressed Girish all of a sudden before anybody had spoken a word and said, “Girish, you, I find, say to one and all everywhere so many things about me (that I am an incarnation of God), what have you seen and understood (about me) that you do so ? “ Girish remained completely unmoved and, kneeling down on the ground near the Master’s feet, said in a choked voice with his hands folded and face turned upwards, ” What more can I say of Him, whose greatness Vyasa and Valmiki could not find words to express?” The Master was charmed at this fervent utterance of the devoted Girish and blessed all the devotees assembled there through their representative, Girish : “What more shall I say to you? May you all be blessed with the spiritual awakening.” Beside himself with love and compas sion for the devotees, hardly had he said those few words when he entered into Bhavasamadhi.

Those words of profound blessing, untouched by the slightest tinge of selfishness, directly entered the devotees’ hearts where they raised high billows of bliss. They forgot time and space, forgot the disease of the Master and forgot their previous determination not to touch him till he recovered, and were aware only that out of sympathy for them in their plight, an extraordinary divine Being, feeling excruciating pain at their misery and his heart over flowing with compassion, had come down to them from heaven and called them affectionately to Him for giving protection, like a mother sheltering her children against all ills by covering them lovingly with the upper part of her Sari. Then they became eager to bow down to him and take the dust of his feet and, filling the quarters with cries of “Victory to Ramakrishna”, began saluting him one after another. As they were thus bowing down to him the sea of the Master’s compassion transcended all bounds and brought about a wonderful phenomenon.