In Oneness With Entirety

Saints' oneness with the entirety shows up involuntarily and serves as a lesson for an earnest seeker. Numerous instances can be drawn from the life of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was once standing on the bank of the Ganges at Dakshinehwar. The water of the Ganges flowed on with its all embracing nature encountering all that was introduced to it.

A ferryboat with two boatmen sailed plying the waters. Suddenly a quarrel broke out between the two boatmen with one of their hand coming heavily on the back of the other. Sri Ramakrishna who was ashore cried out in pain. On hearing Sri Ramakrishna's cry his nephew Hriday rushed to him and found a red impression of a hand slapped hardly on his back. Hriday's anger knew know bounds as he enquired his uncle as to who had dared to do that heinous act. Then popped up the teaching of the master camouflaged in the narration of the incident quick to be grasped by an aspiring heart. He said that it was not he who was actually beaten but the boatmen who was, which caused pain to Him as well !

On another occasion Sri Ramakrishna was seated on the veranda attached to his room in Dakshineshwar. Suddenly a man walked with heavy thumps on the grass of the lawn that lay in front of the veranda. Sri Ramakrishna felt an excruciating pain at that time and later said that he felt as if the man had walked on his chest !

Such was the case of the master's encompassing oneness with all animate as well as inanimate things, the entirety
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