Ode to Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Nonell
Spiritual evolution of humanity, Bhagavad Gita, Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda
“Yato mat, tato path”
So many religions, so many paths
Who cries for God?
A reflection on the spiritual evolution of humanity based on shlokas IV-7-8 of the Bhagavad Gita, the teachings of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Swami Vivekananda.
- Foreword
- Characters: Black Eve (mother of humanity), anonymous prophet and Chorus & Yoga Ballet
- Black Eve (Africa, 200,000 years ago)
- Abraham (Egypt, 2,000 BC)
- Vedas (India, approx. 1,500 BC)
- Moses (Middle East, 14th century BC)
- Akhenaten (Egypt, 1372 BC)
- Violence around the world (8th - 7th centuries BC)
- Zarathustra (Persia, 7th and 6th centuries BC?)
- Krishna (India millennia later, 6th century BC?)
- Buddha (India, 563 / 483 BC?)
- Mahavira (India, 599 BC / 540 BC?)
- Confucius (China, 551 BC)
- Laozi (China, 6th century BC?)
- Philosophy (Greece, 6th century BC, Pythagoras)
- Jesus (Christianity, Galilee year 1 AD)
- Roman empire (1st-5th centuries AD)
- Muhammad (Islam, Arabia, 570 AD)
- Guru Nanak (Sikhism, India, 1469)
- Catholicism (West, 15th century AD)
- Darkness (West, 17th and 20th centuries)
- «Goddess Reason» (Europe, France, 18th century)
- Divergence of paths (19th century)
- Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa (India, 1836)
- Swami Vivekananda (India, United States, 1893)
- Barbarism (world wars, Marxism, 20th century)
- God returns in all times and places
- Conclusions of the Ode to Sri Ramakrishna
- My Religion: to be strong and free
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Oda a Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Ode a Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa (Calcutta, 1836-1886) is perhaps one of the most important spiritual teachers of humanity in recent centuries. His message of peace and above all that all religions are valid: they are different paths to God, but they are not God at all (principle of harmony between religions), are laying the foundations for a new way of understanding religion and spirituality.
Sri Ramakrishna was the first person in history to show through direct experience the transcendental unity of all religions. Many Hindus regard him as an incarnation of divinity like Krishna, Buddha or Jesus. Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo regarded him as an incarnation: the prophet of the new era.
Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) was a Hindu monk and the main disciple of Sri Ramakrishna. If India is today the spiritual power of the world and the third largest economy, it is thanks to the enormous work he did travelling around India, to arouse the masses with the powerful message of the Gita: “Rise and fight!” and “Be free, that is the whole religion.” During his travels in the United States and England, he introduced the Bhagavad Gita or Vedanta to the West, as well as the teachings of Ramakrishna.
The quoted verse (shloka) of the Bhagavad Gita is the leitmotif of this Ode to Sri Ramakrishna:
«When goodness declines, when evil increases, when the purpose of life is forgotten, I manifest Myself, I incarnate as a man. I return at all times and places, to reestablish the Dharma, the path of principles». Gita IV 7-8.
The historical argument is based on the monumental “Study of History” by the British historian Arnold J. Toynbee.
Sample of the Ode to Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa:
Black Eve: the narrator of the Ode to Ramakrishna
I sincerely hope that this reflection on the spiritual evolution of humanity based on the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita will be to your liking.
Namasté!.
(c) Gita Institute
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