WHEN RAMAKRISHNA REVEALED HIMSELF AS RAM AND KRISHNA TO NARENDRANATH AT KASHIPUR GARDEN HOUSE

WHEN RAMAKRISHNA REVEALED HIMSELF AS RAM AND KRISHNA TO NARENDRANATH AT KASHIPUR GARDEN HOUSE 

Days before his mahasamadhi Sri Ramakrishna revealed himself as Shree Ram and Shree Krishna to Narendranath Datta (later Swami Vivekananda). He said to the doubting Narendranath who was musing, "If in this cancerous pain Thakur can aver that he is an incarnation of God, then I'll believe." Sri Ramakrishna was asleep at that time when Narendranath thought thus. Instantly he opened his eyes and said, "Even now this disbelief? Then see---He who had appeared as Ram, He who had appeared as Krishna, is now in this form apparent as Ramakrishna." As Thakur said these words, he manifested himself as Shree Ram and Shree Krishna before resuming his normal form of Sri Ramakrishna. Narendranath was stupefied. He now had no recourse left but to believe that Thakur was God incarnate.

Many years later Ramendrasundar Bhattacharya, a Sanskrit scholar in his nineties and one who was the author of Ramakrishna Bhagavatam in Sanskrit under Sri Ramakrishna's direct injunction delivered to him in dreams, was interviewed by Udbodhan, the Ramakrishna Mission's monthly Bengali journal. Ramendrasundar Babu spoke of his having met Sri Ramakrishna at Dakshineshwar when he was but a boy, how Thakur had blessed him, how he had bid him farewell in a dream on the night of his divine disappearance, how subsequently in several dreams Thakur had exhorted him to write a biography of his life in Sanskrit, how eventually the project was completed with financial grant from the Government of India and a host of other things. But a prized revelation was about Ramendrasundar Babu having known Swamiji in his youth personally and having heard from a Christian professor of Narendranath how Sri Ramakrishna had revealed himself as Shree Ram and Shree Krishna at Kashipur Garden House. The entire talk was published in Udbodhan and later its translated form was published in Prabuddha Bharat.

Written by Sugata Bose