Can’t understand Him, so just absorb Him, experience Him!
By Vivek Sharma
You cannot understand Ram and Krishna without experiencing their simple-yet-subtle principle in the form of Ramkrishna Paramhamsa. Yes, the guru of Swami Vivekananda.
His words are simple. They enter your heart as subtly as the all pervading space. You find yourself into the infinite sea of wisdom of the entire humanity, that is, that was and that will be , waving up and down, allowing all thought rivers into itself…as if its own streams are re-entering it to get refreshed…
Establishing Him?
Don’t follow Him. Just absorb Him, as, frankly speaking you have no option, but to grow along the path He has shown to all. I don’t wish to establish Him as the Supreme godhead, guru or Bhagwan. No. I just say it is impossible for me to do so. I cannot establish what is already there. I cannot establish the sun as the sun, the moon as the moon, the space as the space…they are already there.
I again write, don’t try to understand Him, because that will be your intellectual flight. Just absorb Him, swim in Him as the fish swims in the water. You cannot understand Him. He is not meant to be understood. He is meant to be admired, loved and respected as the embodiment of the past, present and future of the cosmos—the Brahamand. See, I am not undermining others who are there. Does my admiring the depths of the Brahmand, diminish the existence of the solar system? No. And if you feel it does, then you probably deserve to experience the the solar system in the Brahmand first.
His Touch
He won’t say many words. His heart was so full of love and indomitable attraction that you could probably feel yourself helpless in the intense magnetic currents of His love. He would touch and you would go for good— reach the spiritual heights that you have kept in your memory as a standard, and then cross them till you are free into the space of Existence Absolute. He would never touch you between the eyebrows, or back of the neck, or whisper a mantram into your ears. He would just touch you anywhere He liked and send you spiralling up your spiritual ladder, bringing you face to face with the Ecstatic Reality, which you will experience first and understand later through out your life. He would gently touch your shoulder, or place His hand or toe on you chest, or even on your belly and dissolve you into Himself. He might scribble something on your tongue —the strange script, you won’t figure out what it was till you would literally see it happen— walls dissolving, structures vanishing into one Homogenous Reality. You would wonder what was going on and another touch or a word and you would see His face smiling with reddish radiance of the sun emanating from his face….
His education was all experience and know and not know and experience! If you really want to experience Reality, the concept that is there in your memory and beyond that, you just have to absorb Ramkrishna Paramhamsa. It doesn’t matter what ideology you belong to —Christianity, Islam, Buddhism…you would experience that reality through Him or His touch. That is why I say if you want to understand
Ram and Krishna, you would have to experience their simple-yet- subtle principle in the form of Ramkrishna Paramhamsa. Yes, the guru of Swami Vivekananda.