EARLY IMPRESSIONS

EARLY IMPRESSIONS

From early childhood Bhagavān Rām's truthfulness so appealed to me that he captured my young heart's ardent devotion instantly and for good. Later my love of Mā Seetā purified my soul. It seemed strange how Nārad Muni, Devarāj Indra, the apsarās, the devas eased between heaven and earth as if some sort of a divine ladder allowed them such passage. The impression made was deep. My child-mind took it in that the gods and men were somehow closely related, that ascent and descent from god-body to human-body and vice versa was owing to bad or good deeds. Rāmāyan and Mahābhārat made men and the gods kith and kin, especially since the Pāndavas were the sons of gods as was Bhishma that of Mā Gangā. The epics made such a deep impression on my child-mind that I forever befriended the gods, a psychological fact that helped me in my spiritual quest later on in early youth when Ramakrishna-Vivekananda impregnated my soul. Realisations deepened and have ever since been widening as well as the gamut of Sanātan spirituality slowly percolates through my being each day colouring up my soul with every shade of its celestial hues. But it all began with those early childhood, almost babyhood, tales of the Ramāyan and Mahābhārat which gripped my imagination then and have held me in their celestial embrace ever since. I adore Shree Rām and Mā Seetā. 

Written by Sugata Bose