Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Views on Ramakrishna" in English language version.
Even if millions of men called you God, if I had not proved it for myself, I would never do so.
Let the learned men of Europe, who are preoccupied by the problems of mystic psycho-analysis, put themselves in touch with these living witnesses while there is yet time. I myself, I repeat, have little curiosity about such phenomena, whose subjective reality is not in doubt, and I believe it my duty to describe them; for they are hedged about by all possible guarantees of good faith and analytical intelligence. I am more interested in the fact of great religious intuition in that which continues to be rather than in that which has been, in that which is or which can be always in all beings rather than in that which is privilege of a few.
Ramakrishna's "mandate" to Vivekananda that he consume his life in doing "good" to the world is ambiguous enough to permit very different interpretations. In all likelihood, the "good", in the saint's own perception, was the growth of religious fervour; on the other hand there remains room enough for a synthetic integration of spirituality and social service.
Ramakrishna's "mandate" to Vivekananda that he consume his life in doing "good" to the world is ambiguous enough to permit very different interpretations. In all likelihood, the "good", in the saint's own perception, was the growth of religious fervour; on the other hand there remains room enough for a synthetic integration of spirituality and social service.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)'How I used to hate Kali!' he [Vivekananda] said, referring to his own days of doubts in accepting the Kali ideal, 'And all Her ways! That was the ground of my six years' fight — that I would not accept Her. But I had to accept Her at last! Ramakrishna Paramahamsa dedicated me to Her, and now I believe that She guides me in everything I do, and does with me what She will... Yet I fought so long!'
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