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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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is a light that dazzles too much by its brilliance. Tukārāma's light is an accommodative, steady, incremental light which does not glitter too much, but which soothes our vision by giving it what it needs. It is for this reason that we say that the humanistic and personalistic element is more predominant than in any other Saint.” |
Rāmakrsna Paramahamsa Sri Ramakrsna, formerly named by his parents after the divinity of their family, Gadadhar, was born on 17th February 1836 in a poor Brahmin family and he left the world in 1886. He was highly imaginative and a person of independent spirit and courage. He possessed a naturally rebellious trend. He had a dislike for academic study and a scholarly way of life although he had high intellectual powers of understanding and retention. He was interested in the creation of artistic things and in devotional music. The signs of his devotional nature were visible right from his childhood. He possessed a passionate longing and insatiable and most ardent spiritual craving for the Divine. With the most trying and torturous penances prompted by the most earnest and sincere craving for having a vision of God, he finally succeeded in gaining it, and since then, he lived always in God. He used to be drunk with the Divine love and used to fall occasionally into trances. He used to communicate intuitively with the Divine in his mystical experiences and he actually lived a Divine
1 Ranade R. D.: Mysticism in Maharashtra, p. 355,
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