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## Eighth Study
**Ramakrishna Ramakrishna's Bhadraottara Pratima Tapas**
12 - And Ramakanha, having adopted the Bhadraottara Padimam, lives thus:
She performs twelve fasts, and performs the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performs fourteen fasts, and performs the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performs sixteen fasts, and performs the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performs eighteen fasts, and performs the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performs twenty fasts, and performs the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performs sixteen fasts, and performs the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performs eighteen fasts, and performs the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performs twenty fasts, and performs the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performs twelve fasts, and performs the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performs fourteen fasts, and performs the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performs twenty fasts, and performs the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performs twelve fasts, and performs the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performs fourteen fasts, and performs the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performs sixteen fasts, and performs the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performs eighteen fasts, and performs the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performs fourteen fasts, and performs the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performs sixteen fasts, and performs the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performs eighteen fasts, and performs the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performs twenty fasts, and performs the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performs twelve fasts, and performs the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performs eighteen fasts, and performs the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performs twenty fasts, and performs the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performs twelve fasts, and performs the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performs fourteen fasts, and performs the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performs sixteen fasts, and performs the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities.
_One period is six months and twenty days. Four periods are two years, two months and twenty days. The rest is the same as the **Kali** period._
One should understand the story of Ramakrishna in the same way as the story of **Arya**. The special thing is that Ramakrishna adopted the **Arya Bhadraottara Pratima** and started living like this:
She performed five fasts, and performed the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performed six fasts, and performed the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performed seven fasts, and performed the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performed eight fasts, and performed the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performed nine fasts, and performed the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities.
This was the first **Lata**.
She performed seven fasts, and performed the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performed eight fasts, and performed the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performed nine fasts, and performed the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performed five fasts, and performed the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performed six fasts, and performed the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities.
This was the second **Lata**. She performed nine fasts, and performed the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities. She performed five fasts, and performed the **Parana** with all auspicious qualities.
1. Chapter 8, Sutras 3, 4.
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अष्टम अध्ययन
रामकृष्णा रामकृष्णा का भद्रोत्तर प्रतिमा तप
१२-एवं रामकण्हा वि, नवरं-भद्दोत्तरपडिमं उवसंपजित्ता णं विहरइ, तं जहा
दुवालसमं करेइ, करेत्ता सव्वकामगुणियं पारेइ। चोद्दसमं करेइ, करेत्ता सव्वकामगुणियं पारेइ। सोलसमं करेइ, करेत्ता सव्वकामगुणियं पारेइ। अट्ठारसमं करेइ, करेत्ता सव्वकामगुणियं पारेइ। वीसइमं करेइ, करेत्ता सव्वकामगुणियं पारेइ। सोलसमं करेइ, करेत्ता सव्वकामगुणियं पारेइ। अट्ठारसमं करेइ, करेत्ता सव्वकामगुणियं पारेइ। वीसइमं करेइ करेत्ता सव्वकामगुणियं पारेइ। दुवालसमं करेइ, करेत्ता सव्वकामगुणियं पारेइ। चोद्दसमं करेइ, करेत्ता, सव्वकामगुणियं पारेइ। वीसइमं करेइ, करेत्ता, सव्वकामगुणियं पारेइ। दुवालसमं करेइ, करेत्ता सव्वकामगुणियं पारेइ। चोद्दसमं करेइ, करेत्ता सव्वकामगुणियं पारेइ। सोलसमं करेइ, करेत्ता सव्वकामगुणियं पारेइ। अट्ठारसमं करेइ, करेत्ता सव्वकामगुणियं पारेइ। चोद्दसमं करेइ, करेत्ता सव्वकामगुणियं पारेइ। सोलसमं करेइ, करेत्ता सव्वकामगुणियं पारेइ,। अट्ठारसमं करेइ, करेत्ता सव्वकामगुणियं पारेइ। वीसइमं करेइ, करेत्ता सव्वकामगुणियं पारेइ। दुवालसमं करेइ, करेत्ता सव्वकामगुणियं पारेइ। अट्ठारसमं करेइ, करेत्ता सव्वकामगुणियं पारेइ। वीसइमं करेइ, करेत्ता सव्वकामगुणियं पारेइ। दुवालसमं करेइ, करेत्ता सव्वकामगुणियं पारेइ। चोद्दसमं करेइ, करेत्ता सव्वकामगुणियं पारेइ, सोलसमं करेइ, करेत्ता सव्वकामगुणियं पारेइ।
___ एकाए कालो छम्मासा वीस य दिवसा। चउण्हं कालो दो वरिसा दो मासा वीस य दिवसा। सेसं तहेव जहा काली जाव' सिद्धा।
आर्या काली की तरह आर्या रामकृष्णा का भी वृत्तान्त समझना चाहिए। विशेष यह कि रामकृष्णा आर्या भद्रोत्तरप्रतिमा अंगीकार करके विचरण करने लगी, जो इस प्रकार है
पांच उपवास किये, करके सर्वकामगुणयुक्त पारणा किया, करके छह उपवास किये, करके सर्वकामगुणयुक्त पारणा किया, करके सात उपवास किये, करके सर्वकामगुणयुक्त पारणा किया, करके आठ उपवास किये, करके सर्वकामगुणयुक्त पारणा किया, करके नव उपवास किये, करके सर्वकामगुणयुक्त पारणा किया।
यह प्रथम लता हुई।
सात उपवास किये, करके सर्वकामगुणयुक्त पारणा किया, करके आठ उपवास किये, करके सर्वकामगुणयुक्त पारणा किया, करके नव उपवास किये, करके सर्वकामगुणयुक्त पारणा किया, करके पांच उपवास किये, करके सर्वकामगुणयुक्त पारणा किया, करके छह उपवास किये, करके सर्वकामगुणयुक्त पारणा किया।
यह दूसरी लता हुई। नव उपवास किये, करके सर्वकामगुणयुक्त पारणा किया, करके पांच उपवास किये, करके
१. वर्ग ८, सूत्र ३, ४.