Paramahamsa: Sri Ramakrishna

Hamsa(swan) is a special creature in this universe with an extraordinary power that is not found in any other creatures. It has the capability to separate water from milk when they are mixed. This power makes Hamsa into a Paramahamsa (super swan). This is ‘Hamsa Ksheera Nyaya’(swan’s justice of milk).  Hamsa is equally at home on water or on land. In Hindu scriptures, Hamsa is the vehicle of ‘Brahma’ (creator).  Thinking mind has chosen ‘Paramahamsa’ for a title to honour the persons who have attained enlightenment.  Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was such an enlightened man, an Indian mystic Yogi in the 19^th Century.  Sri Ramakrishna possessed a spiritual ecstasies from the young age and was influenced by several religious traditions. He was a devotee of Goddess mother ‘Kali’.  He was not a scholar not even educated by usual standards but his profound understanding of the human Life and its purpose is amazing.  One whose body and mind are deluged by devotion and love of god, he indeed is the one in whom God has incarnated in human body.  Sri Ramakrishna was an incarnation of Lord Rama and Krishna. 

One needs special eyes and ears to understand that Sri Ramakrishna was an incarnation of both Lord Rama and Krishna.  Dive deep in the ocean of Sri Rama Krishna Leela (Play) to understand its mysticism. He took the responsibility of decorating the image of mother Kali and performing worship of mother everyday.  He would become overwhelmed with different spiritual moods.  Sometimes he would lose his consciousness of the outside world and also he would lose the awareness that he had a body.  Sometimes he would hold cotton wool in front of Mother Kali’s nose to see if she was breathing. 

Sri Ramakrishna used to talk to divine mother regularly.  The Pandits visited him from far and away places to argue with him.  When their arguments reaches highest pitches, Sri Ramakrishna simply touches with his little finger.  At his touch Pandits lose all their wits and become speechless. 

Activities of the external powers of god take place in the domain of sense perfection.  These can be described through words.  Activities of God’s internal powers is impossible to describe them in words.  Sri Ramakrishna’s leela can be experienced but it cannot be described.  Sri Ramakrishna is revealed and concealed at the same time. Sri Ramakrishna was a very simple as well as a very complicated personality.

He was an enigma to the uninitiated.