MIGHTY BLESSINGS FROM DIVINE RARE HISTORICAL HUMAN OF THE WORLD, SPECIAL INDIAN CITIZEN, HIS MAJESTIC HIGHNESS JAGADGURUVULU MAHARANI SAMETHA MAHARAJAH SRI SRI SRI ANJANI RAVISHANKAR PILLA VAARUMIGHTY BLESSINGS FROM HIS MAJESTIC HIGHNESS JAGADGURUVULU MAHARANI SAMETHA MAHARAJAH SHRI SHRI SHRI ANJANI RAVISHANKR PILLA VAARU.

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There are many great lessons that we can learn from the teachings of the Paramahamsa of Dakshineswar, but perhaps the most important for the modern day is this one of the omnipresence of the Image of God. ...Sri Ramakrishna speaks of a divinity transcending national and even religious communities and boundaries. ‘Dogmatism is not good’, he declares. ‘God has made different religions to suit different aspirants, times and countries. All doctrines are so many paths….One can reach God if one follows any of the paths with wholehearted devotion. Sri Ramakrishna reached this realization by retiring from the cities of the struggle-for-power into the timelessness of the unchanging Self. There he immersed himself in the ageless Well of Wisdom that has been, from time out of mind, the support of the Indian soul. … Sri Ramakrishna absolutely refused to compromise; and his absolutism transported him to a pole quite clean of partisanship, clean of our normal human passions of fear and desire, love and hate. From that vantage he now speaks to us: and what we hear is that even in our iniquities we are the vehicles of divinity, in our battle-lines we are the manifestations of the one and universal God, in our very agonies we are at peace in the bosom of God, and in our delights we are tasting the sweetness of God’s table.
This is the message of that eternal philosophy which underlies the great religions of the world. Sri Ramakrishna has refreshed it.
- Joseph Campbell
(Famed writer and academic, collaborator with Swami
Nikhilananda on the first English translation of the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
and advisor to George Lucas for Star Wars Movie plots. The following is an excerpt from Prabuddha Bharata’s March 1946 issue based on a speech given at the Celebration of Sri Ramakrishna’s birthday at the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Centre of New York.)

ach God if one follows any of the paths with wholehearted devotion. Sri Ramakrishna reached this realization by retiring from the cities of the struggle-for-power into the timelessness of the unchanging Self. There he immersed himself in the ageless Well of Wisdom that has been, from time out of mind, the support of the Indian soul. … Sri Ramakrishna absolutely refused to compromise; and his absolutism transported him to a pole quite clean of partisanship, clean of our normal human passions of fear and desire, love and hate. From that vantage he now speaks to us: and what we hear is that even in our iniquities we are the vehicles of divinity, in our battle-lines we are the manifestations of the one and universal God, in our very agonies we are at peace in the bosom of God, and in our delights we are tasting the sweetness of God’s table.
This is the message of that eternal philosophy which underlies the great religions of the world. Sri Ramakrishna has refreshed it.
- Joseph Campbell
(Famed writer and academic, collaborator with Swami
Nikhilananda on the first English translation of the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
and advisor to George Lucas for Star Wars Movie plots. The following is an excerpt from Prabuddha Bharata’s March 1946 issue based on a speech given at the Celebration of Sri Ramakrishna’s birthday at the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Centre of New York.)