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| 182nd Birth Anniversary Sri Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa celebrated | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 18: The 182nd Birth Anniversary of Bhagavan Sri Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Deva was celebrated with great fervour by the Ramakrishna Mission of Jammu at the Mission premises at Udheywala, Jammu today. A large number of devotees, local people gathered for the celebration. The full day celebration was started at early morning with Mangalarati and vedic chanting. A special puja was performed. The devotees were enlightened with the life of Sri Ramakrishna by Swami Sunishchlananda and Swami Nirantarananda ji Maharaj. The day long celebration was end after evening arati and Bhajan. Bhog Prasad was also distributed to the devotees in the afternoon. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa, a prominent figure in 19th century Bengali renaissance, was born in a remote village Kamarpukur in Hooghly district of undivided Bengal in 1836 and he was brought to Kolkata for earning livelihood. Despite being a petty temple priest in Dakshineswar, out of intense metaphysical quest he adventured into the realm of Spirit and attained cosmic consciousness with indomitablespiritual aspiration with his sublimated mind free from all worldly attachments and full of longing for God. With intense curiosity he wanted to know the truth of other major religions as well not as bookish knowledge but as a matter of direct experience as spirituality does not concern intellectual knowing but becoming and identifying with being beyond body-mind externals. The great master passed away on 16th August 1886 but his universal message has been carried forward by his ascetic disciples who formed grand monastery in his name under the leadership of Swami Vivekananda as well as by his worthy householder disciples. |
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