PANCHAVATI AND THE PARAMAHAMSA

PANCHAVATI AND THE PARAMAHAMSA 

Pranam Thakur. 

The setting of this photograph is not original and has been photoshopped for sure but the setting is perfect. How many times Thakur must have sat here under the Panchavati, preaching his nectarine Gospel that, in the words of Swamiji, 'is to shower peace on earth hereafter.' How many ecstasies, rushes of divine oration, tears of bliss trickling down the sides of those eyes that beheld the world in an ethereal light have found occasion here, how many disciples like Naren, Rakhal, Baburam, Mahendra Master, how many ardent admirers and associates like Keshab, Bijoy, Trailakya and countless others have flocked at his feet here in Dakshineshwar, the seat of his visitation on earth, how many waves of the divine Ganga have sought sanctuary at his blessed feet  before flooding the world with their cleansing grace, a limitless flow that has rendered this artificially generated association of environment whole and true far more, perhaps, than the original setting on the steps of the Radhakanta Temple a few yards away ! 

Truth prevails in falsity when the Master graces it, as his holy touch transforms aught of earth unto either the nought of the Being or the rising beams of a spiritual star. From here flowed a divine current that has been flooding the world in deeper and deeper permeation through the subliminal strata of human consciousness. The flow is from the hallowed heart of the Master unto the blessed hearts of men across the world, a force, impersonal and divine, that will need no human hand to give effect to it but shall effect human changes despite it such that the world will awaken one day to freedom with earthly shackles sundered. This then was the place, the focus of divine concentration this time, the Bodhgaya and the Nazareth, the Ayodhya and the Vrindavan, the Navadveep and the Narmada, the Sindhu and the Sarasvati, this the centre of superconscious activity, the pilgrimage perennial. The Panchavati and its Paramahamsa have become synonymous. Here Narendra takes over.

Written by Sugata Bose