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The Wonder that was Sri RamakrishnaParamahamsa’s Touch
We
touch
each
others
in
various
ways.
Different
kinds
of
touch
show
our
love,
affection,
friendship,
respect
and
custom.
We
shake
hands
with
our
friends,
office-colleagues,
neighbours
and
even
strangers.
In
the
Indian
tradition,
our
elders
bless
us
by
placing
their
hands
on
our
heads.
We
touch
the
feet
of
the
holy
and
the
elderly
as
mark
of
humility
and
respect.
In
a
marriage
ceremony
in
India,
soon
after
the
rituals
are
over,
the
newly-weds
are
blessed
by
the
people
present
there
by
placing
their
hands
on
the
heads
or
the
shoulders
of
the
newly-weds.
On
some
special
occasions
in
the
West—and
in
many
official
circles
in
India,
too—one
has
to
shake
hands
with
many
persons
one
after
the
other.
(Although
it
might
be
a
tiring
exercise,
nobody
ever
says
so).
This
kind
of
touching
is
so
common
that
we
do
not
remember
the
names
of
persons
we
had
shaken
hands
with
the
previous
day.
What
is
the
effect
of
this
touch?
Physically
speaking,
our
hands
may
be
carrying
quite
a
few
germs
after
we
have
shaken
hands
with
others—known
or
unknown.
In
such
cases
the
shaking
hands
may
not
be
good
hygiene.
But
culturally
and
socially
speaking,
shaking
hands
with
others
is
a
sign
of
cultural
acceptance
or
social
bonding.
Touching
others
hence
will
continue
to
stay
with
us.
The
act
of
touching
others,
however,
has
a
spiritual
dimension
which
is
generally
overlooked.
The
touch
of
a
spiritually
evolved
one
is
thrilling
and
spiritually
helpful.
We
find
many
people
undergoing
an
inner
transformation
after
being
touched
by
a
saint
or
spiritually
great
person.
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa's touch belonged to this special genre of touch. Many disciples of Sri Ramakrishna have recorded their totally different experiences of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa"s amazing power of touch.
Incidents about the Divine Touch
Narendra (future Swami Vivekananda) had gone to the Kali temple at Dakshineswar for the first time in early 1882. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa did not touch young Narendra on that occasion, although he had a very strange experience (Sri Ramakrishna addressed him as a long lost friend) which made him doubt the mental equilibrium of Sri Ramakrishna. Narendra had promised a second visit to Dakshineswar and when he went there after about a month, he found Sri Ramakrishna alone in his room, sitting in a 'strange" mood, on his bed. He invited Narendra to sit by his side.
Soon after Narendra had taken his seat on the bed a foot or so away from Sri Ramakrishna, the latter, without uttering a word of welcome, muttered a few words in an ecstatic mood, suddenly raised his right foot and placed it on Narendra"s body. The touch had an astonishing effect. Narendra"s eyes were wide open and he was sitting in a room on the banks of Ganga at Dakshineswar. But he saw the whole world vanishing! The walls of the room, the doors, the Kali temple, the lush garden—everything was whirling round and vanishing! Even he himself was vanishing with everything there! Everything seen by him was becoming one with infinity. Was he facing death? He was terrified and he cried out loudly: 'Ah, what are you doing to me? Don"t you know that I have parents at home?"1
Hearing this earnest cry of the young Narendra, Sri Ramakrishna laughed, and immediately moving his hand on Narendra"s chest, he said: 'All right, let it stop now. It will happen in its own good time."2
What a gulf of difference between the two touches of Sri Ramakrishna to Swami Vivekananda administered in the span of a minute or two! The first touch, as Swamiji himself admitted later, cast him into the ocean of infinity, and the second one, pulled him out, as it were, from that infinite ocean and brought him back on solid earth of this mundane world. Same touch!
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