became so frequent that he was relieved of his duties as temple priest, but allowed to continue living within the temple compound. During the next twelve years, Ramakrishna journeyed even deeper into this passionate and absolute love for the divine.
His practice was to express such intense devotion to particular deities, that they would physically manifest to him, and then merge into his being.
Ramakrishna attained Samadhi in 1886 at the age of fifty, but his life, his intense spiritual practices, and the temple of Kali where many of his ecstatic trances occurred, continue to attract pilgrims from all over.
Ramakrishna fully realized the infinite and all-inclusive nature of the divine. He was a conduit for divinity, and the presence of that divinity can still be clearly experienced at the Kali temple of Dakshineswar.
It is said that knowledge without bhakti
is useless tinsel [klatergoud].
Let us then know the nine forms of devotion
that would take us closer to the Supreme...
~bron~
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