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Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita Centenary Memorial 2 Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita Centenary Memorial SRI SRI RAMAKRISHNA KATHAMRITA CENTENARY MEMORIAL 2 SRI SRI RAMAKRISHNA KATHAMRITA CENTENARY MEMORIAL Editors D.P. GUPTA D.K. SENGUPTA SRI MA TRUST Office: 579, Sector 18-B, Library & Meditation Hall: Chandigarh – 160018 SRI SRI KATHAMRITA PEETH Phone: (0172) 2724460 Sector 19-D, CHANDIGARH – 160019 Published by ©The President SRI MA TRUST 579, Sector 18-B, Chandigarh – 160018. 3 First Edition 26 February 1982 Second Edition 2009 XX XXXX 2004 © Sri Ma Trust 4 pÇ< pu:p< )l< taey< yae me É®ya àyCDit, tdh< É®yupùtmîaim àytaTmn>. Om Thakur, our Beloved Father, on this 26 th Day of February 1982, we, the devotees of Sri Ramakrishna, dedicate this Volume – Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita Centenary Memorial – at Your lotus-feet in memory of the Great Day a hundred years ago, when for the first time, You and Your Divine Word touched Revered M.’s heart for the peace and joy of humanity. Yourself, accompanied by Holy Mother, Swami Vivekananda, Sri M. and Your other beloved Disciples, do bless us, be always with us, guide us in the right direction! May the entire universe be the abode of peace and happiness real! ` ïIramk«:[apR[mStu Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita Peeth Sector 19-D, Chandigarh 26 February 1982 5 6 7 8 BLESSINGS AND MESSAGES – Extracts from letters * … I pray to Lord Sri Ramakrishna that by His grace your sincere endevour for publishing a Centenary Volume on Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita may be fulfilled. Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita has brought a new light as well as a unique expression to seekers of God to realize truth. It showers eternal Bliss and Peace in the minds of an aspirant as well as a miserable soul. Although numerous public in general has yet to know about this Gospel and its blessed writer, I sincerely hope that this Centenary Volume of Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita will help the public a lot to understand the message and ideals of Bhagawan Sri Ramakrishna … Swami Saradeshananda 4 December 1979 Ramakrishna Math, Vrindaban * … In the religious history of India, during the last one hundred years two events are particularly remarkable. One is Sri Sri Swamiji’s sojourn in the West for two couples of years representing Indian spirituality and his establishment of the Belur Math and the Order of monks after his return from the West. The second was the recording of Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita by Master Mahashaya which has become the Bible for countless people devoted to our Great Master. The author of it though disguised behind the initial M. will be remembered as long as the book will be read. Only a person who denies the Sun in the sky will deny M. and his work ensouling the spirit of the Master. I feel much but I cannot write more… I am nearing 80… and rest here in complete retirement … I pray for your success at the feet of our Lord. Swami Vimalananda 18 May 1980 Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama, Nettayam, Trivandrum * It has been my privilege to see M. often when he was at Morton School on Amherst Street, Calcutta. Every evening he would meet a dozen or more devotees and talk to them . I often used to join this group of people because I was the youngest among them – I was only 16 when I first saw him – M. paid special attention to me, at least that is how I felt then. He specially wanted to know my background, the kind of family I came from, whether my mother practised meditation daily and whether I myself ever meditated. There was a time when I used to visit him at least twice a week but later I was not able to visit him often as I was away from Calcutta. I joined the Mission at Deoghar Vidyapith (where Swami Nityatmananda was among the monks there) and came down to Belur Math to spend a few days with Sri Sri Mahapurush Maharaj, then President of the Math and Mission. One morning I was cutting vegetables with others when word came that M. had passed away. It was like a bolt from the blue. The year was 1932. Tears came to my eyes and many memories rushed into my mind. How kind he had always been to me, not only to me but everybody else i.e., everybody who was a spiritual aspirant. I went to his house at Guruprasad Chowdhury Lane where he breathed his last. I joined a group of his admirers in carrying the dead body to the cremation ground at Cossipore where his own Master had been cremated. Soon we discovered that there was quite a long procession of people, many of them strangers who had joined up. This was because by then M. was very well-known in Calcutta and the news that he had passed away drew his admirers from many parts of the city. As his body was laid on the funeral pyre, I noticed the same calm face with the broad forehead, large ears, the white beard which had always distinguished him. I felt sad as I had much contact with him in his closing years but I have the consolation that his blessings are always on me. Swami Lokeshwarananda 23 October 1981 Secretary, The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Calcutta I wish all success to your Centenary Volume. Swami Ranganathananda 2 December 1979 President, The Ramakrishna Math, Hyderabad * Your plan is very beautiful and auspicious… May Sri Thakur bless it with success. Swami Apurvananda 21 December 1979 The Ramakrishna Advaita Ashrama, Varanasi * It is an honour to be asked to write on the Kathamrita – so unique in its contents and universal in its appeal. Sri Ma has immortalized himself by noting the words of God so vividly and directly. The world of seekers of truth and lovers of God will always feel grateful to him for this wonderful contribution/service. Sri Ma is and will be ever remembered with reverence for presenting Sri Ramakrishna so clearly and dearly… Swami Atmasthananda 15 May 1980 Asst. Secretary, Ramakrishna Math & Mission, Belur * I am happy to know that Sri Ma Trust is planning to publish the Centenary Volume… I do pray that your noble effort may have blessings of Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Ma Sarada Devi and their illustrious disciple M. who was the Chosen One to be His Voice to the future generation. Parivrajika Mokshaprana 30 April 1980 President, Sri Sarada Math, Dakshineshwar * I pray to the Master that the publication may be crowned with success bringing blessings to the readers, contributors and organizers… 10 Swami Prabudhhananda 29 May 1980 Vedanta Society of Northern California, San Francisco, USA * I note your noble venture to publish a Kathamrita Centenary Volume… Wishing you all good luck in your venture. Swami Bhavyananda 10 May 1980 Ramakrishna Vedanta Centre, Bourne End, Bucks, England * I, however, wish your project all success and may Sri Ramakrishna bless and protect you always! Swami Bhaskarananda 24 March 1980 Ramakrishna Vedanta Centre, Seattle, USA * …laudable endevour. I pray to God for the success of your endevour… Swami Dhyanananda 13 May 1980 Udbodhan Office, Calcutta * … Indeed it is a great and grand attempt to publish the volume with suitable sublime articles on the Kathamrita for the good of the common people and the Ramakrishna Movement… Swami Dharmeshananda 31 Dec 1979 Ramakrishna Advaita Ashrama, Varanasi * … We congratulate you for making such a noble plan and wish you all success. Swami Shivamayananda Principal, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandir, Belur Math * … This is a bold and noble venture no doubt… the task is equally difficult… with best wishes… Swami Niramayananda 24 Feb 1980 Ramakrishna Ashrama, Bombay * …I am glad to know that you are bringing out a Kathamrita Centenary Volume 11 in the near future. The volume will benefit many devotees who will like to learn new facts regarding the Kathamrita and/or see the same from a new angle. Sri Ma Trust is eminently the proper body to bring out such a volume… 7 Jan. 1980 Swami Krishnananda Ramakrishna Sarada Math, Varanasi Ramakrishna Math (Tulsi Math), Rishikesh 12 PREFACE TO 2 ND EDITION 13 14 PREFACE TO 1 ST EDITION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The 26 th of February, 1882! On this day was created religious history, for from all available evidence, it was on this day that Sri M. , the apostle and the evangelist, met his Lord and Master, Sri Ramakrishna, for the first time and heard His divine word which was to bring the Kathamrita , the Nectar of His Word into being, for the peace and bliss of the strife torn restless world. On being asked which was the greatest event of this life, Sri M. , himself said without a moment’s hesitation: “The day I had my first darshana of Thakur (Sri Ramakrishna) in February 1882.” Regarding this date, 26 February, 1882 there is some uncertainty in the minds of some devotees, because Sri M. himself did not record the dates of his first three meetings with the Master in so many words. However, he did say that his first meeting took place on a Sunday … ‘a few days after the 23 rd of February 1882’. The only Sunday after 23 February 1882 till the end of the month fell on 26 February. This is our reason for taking this date as the day of Sri M. ’s first meeting with Thakur, and therefore of the beginnings of Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita , the Gospel, though only in seed form. To celebrate this great day we promised ourselves a yajna , by collecting all available views on the Kathamrita and its Recorder and publish them in the form of a Centenary Memorial which we hoped would help remind our readers of the glory of the Great Master, his Word and his Evangelist.
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