RAMAKRISHNA ... 2

RAMAKRISHNA ... 2

The workings of Nature are externally mysterious and are being unravelled slowly by the penetrating intellect of man. The results of theoretical inquiry and analysis as inference thereof where they tally with predictions about phenomena become laws, the sum total of which is called science. In other words, theory must tally with events for it to be accorded the status of natural law. Of course, here we are not going into philosophical deliberations on the validity or otherwise of anthropomorphic assertions on truth, given that the human consciousness is limited by the five senses and is a bit of sensory mind thereof overseeing and governing them. Should we go into that lane though, our certitude of knowledge will fall apart and we will be rendered homeless as our primitive predecessors who wandered the face of this green earth with curiosity green peeping through a dark mind clouded by ignorance and imagination, instinct and inheritance of a darker past but with a strange impulse toward onward march which the Āryas far far later made mantric in 'Charaiveti!' But such a line of thought cannot be waylaid altogether when we read into the compulsions and contours of this curious personality called Ramakrishna who stands as it were on the interface of the inner and the outer man, plunging into both worlds like a skilled diver of divine means. But was he divine? Who was he, this priest of Dakshineshwar, the purest of his people ever, the peerless Paramahamsa?

Written by Sugata Bose 

To be continued.