The aim of life is to attain the Lord ***Ramakrishna emphasised that God-realisation is the supreme goal of all living beings. Hence, for him, religion served as a means for the achievement of this goal.Ramakrishna's mystical realization, classified by Hindu tradition as nirvikalpa samadhi (literally, "constant meditation", thought to be absorption in the all-encompassing Consciousness), led him to believe that various religions are various ways to reach the Absolute, and that the Ultimate Reality could never be expressed in human terms. This is in agreement with the Rigvedic proclamation that "Truth is one but sages call it by many a name." As a result of this opinion, Ramakrishna actually spent periods of his life practising his own understandings of Islam, Christianity and various other Yogic and Tantric sects within Hinduism. *** ***The key concepts in Ramakrishna's teachings were:1.the oneness of existence 2.the divinity of all living beings 3.the unity of God and the harmony of religions 4.that the main mental bondage in human life is lust and greed
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***Dive deep, dive deep, dive deep, O my mind into the sea of Beauty.Make a search in the regions lower and lower down under the sea;You will come by the jewel, the wealth of prema (intense love of God).Within your heart is Vrindavan, the abode of God who is love.Search and look; search and look; search and look. You will find it.Then shall burn without ceasing the lamp of divine wisdom.Who is that Being that does steer the boat on land  on land, on solid ground?Kabir says, ‘Listen, listen, listen! Meditate on the hallowed feet of the Guru (Divine preceptor).’
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PARAMA*HAMSA & PARAMA*HANSAThe Sanskrit word hansa,mean swan. The added Sanskrit word param(a) means supreme. Hence: supreme swan. Is that all there is to it? Far from it. The Indian mind is good at abstracting: the words have got religious meanings too. A hansa - in addition to being a swan, has got religious-mythological meaning, and is also a religious fellow, a monk. Paramahamsa, as a religio/theological title, is applied to an adept class of Hindu renunciates, liberated, realized masters who, having attained the supreme yogic state, or nirvikalpa samadhi, can always distinguish between the Real (sa) from the unreal (ham).In Hindu mythology the supreme swan (paramahansa) is marked by the ability to drink only the milk out of a mixture of milk and water, and thus is a symbol of supreme discernment, if not impossible discernment - And a "perfected monk" is a param(a)hansa. The perfected monk, how is he? There are many definitions of it in yoga literature. Not everyone sees eye to eye on this either. The paramhansa has been explained by paramahansas too. "The Paramahamsa is like a five year old child. He sees everything filled with consciousness," says Paramahansa Ramakrishna . ***