SRI SRI RAMAKRISHNA KATHĀMRITA – As I have understood (Volume-1) Second Edition by Sri Ashim Kumar Mukherjee

Infinitely kind ALMIGHTY GOD deigned in human form in the 19th Century with the name SRI RAMAKRISHNA PARAMAHAMSADEVA to restore dharma (धर्म) in all its meanings – righteousness, to sustain, religion etc. His talks and songs contain eternal truths essential for the existence of human civilization. Incarnation of GOD does not come alone. His Divine Consort, Holy Ma Sarada Devi, 16 of HIS monastic disciples and a handful of domestic disciples came with HIM. Eventually, Ramakrishna Mission and Ramakrishna Math and Sri Sarada Math, and Ramakrishna Sarada Mission were founded. Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathāmrita is a book originally published in five volumes in the early 20th Century in the Bengali language. The book is the recorded speeches and songs in the form of conversations and dialogues between the Incarnation of God SRI SRI RAMAKRISHNA PARAMAHAMSADEVA and HIS devotees exactly as they were. The author treats this book, Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathāmrita, as the gist of all the wisdom available in the world so far. It appears that presently the world has entered into the ‘annihilation’ stage, evidenced by the increase in urge of fire – by way of war, climate change, extinction of species, environmental degradation, enslavement of humanity by the digital world and surrender of human intelligence to artificial intelligence. Post-truth is dislodging truth; dichotomy is camouflaging the facts. Sixth Extinction is knocking at the door. Arousal of soul-force through infusion of SPIRITUALITY is the only remedy for reversal of the process leading to sixth extinction and for the continued existence of human civilization on Earth. This book is part of an effort to alleviate the sufferings of humanity and to arouse good sense based on the life and teachings of SRI SRI RAMAKRISHNA PARAMAHAMSADEVA by explaining the contents of Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathāmrita. - Ashim Kumar Mukherjee Human civilisation is aspiring utopia but moving towards dystopia. To come out of this situation, to exist and to sustain, arousal of vital force is essential and is the only remedy. Vital force is the soul-force. Spirituality connects with ABSOLUTE and thus provides unending supply of soul-force. Spirituality is within and not without. For arousal of soul-force, Divinity must be experientially presented as human truth to human beings for appreciation, enrichment, enlightenment and realization. All Divine Incarnations have descended on Earth for this purpose, and they saved humanity from existential crisis, as and when crisis occurred. SRI RAMAKRISHNA PARAMHAMSADEVA, a Divine Incarnation, descended on Earth in this technological era to save this planet when humanity relying on nescience, and so, drenched with ignorance, driven away from Truth, sitting upon a pile of warheads, residing in a degraded environment staring onto unforeseen & irreversible climate change. Sayings, teachings, conversations, songs, scenes of singing and dancing of Omnipresent, Omniscient, Omnipotent Anantakoti Brahmanda Nayak SRI RAMAKRISHNA PARAMHAMSADEVA – all Divine but presented in human form, were heard, seen, witnessed, participated and recorded in Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathāmrita, in Bengali language. Sayings and teachings of SRI RAMAKRISHNA are secular, universal, eternal, capable of infusing Spirituality essential for arousal soul-force. This book ‘Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathāmrita – As I Have Understood’ is meant for reversal of the ongoing anthropocentric-temporality-oriented process of sixth extinction by raising awareness of present and future generations through dissemination of infinite Spirituality contained in Bengali book “Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathāmrita”.

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