28 May 2024
(Poem by Smt. Chhanda is enclosed. Click here to read)
Swami replied:
Shri Paramahamsa is the local Bengali doctor,
God Datta is foreign doctor from upper world,
With the help of these doctors, Swami-Doctor,
Intensively treated you from ignorance-illness.
You are a special patient without any patience,
We three doctors are internally one doctor only,
One looks like the three, Who are one in reality,
Brahmaa, Vishnu and Shiva are one divine Datta.
You are most important soul for Me, the God Datta,
You are Kohinoor diamond in the crown of queen,
Breaking record in practical devotion, the final step,
Standing as the torchlight for the world of devotees.
(A poem on His Holiness Shri Datta Swami by Smt. Chhanda)
On a very pious night, in my most divine dream, I was fortunate to get a divine darshan,
I witnessed the merging of Ramakrishna and my Swami, the past and present human incarnation.
That dream changed my life forever,
As after that episode, there was no look after.
Even without this dream, Swami being God, can never be negated (cancel).
But, this divine dream stamped my recognition of Swami as my God, the Ultimate!
I take it in a different way, thinking it as my greatest fortune,
Swami also approves it that past is coming for the present’s introduction.
There are so many similarities in both these two most beautiful incarnations,
Most of the time, I can’t even distinguish between their preachings.
In Ramakrishna’s time, Vivekananda proved that His cancer was not at all infectious,
But His preachings, the feelings behind them, are definitely most infectious.
Taking the cancer from one of His devotees was just a play,
In order to differentiate the false devotees and keep them away.
My Swami is also habituated with taking many devotees’ life-threatening sufferings,
If we say, He rejects, then reveals in the same way and we realize the reasons.
His preachings in the present time, we all know how crystal clear and scientific it is,
All of us feel that His knowledge, logics and analysis are very infectious indeed.
Once we start accepting His beautiful, true and complete spiritual knowledge,
Our intelligence also says, it is really cancerous (spreading) and has a very sharp edge.
Ramakrishna tested His devotee Gouri, why she considers Him as the God?
She promised to prove it based on her realization from shastras and her own experience.
Thakur (Ramakrishna) replied like a child saying He did not understand all these things,
Gouri responded that shastras also say, ‘Nobody can know God without His grace’.
This same thing happened with my Swami also, probably for testing my faith in Him,
Very often He poses the same question to me and I try to give explanation to Him.
First, I try to convince, then say, it is beyond my capacity to explain Him, the Unimaginable,
Again, He insists, I keep silent as silence only is the best option available.
Finally, He starts smiling by looking at me, the fool who is full of ignorance,
He starts cracking jokes to make me comfortable and removes my darkness.
Ramakrishna taught us how to attain God by saying ‘Tin taan ak na hole hayna’,
(Tin taan ak na hole hayna – similar to esanatraya)
Same preaching Swami also taught us by explaining beautifully the concept of ‘Esanatraya’.
Ramakrishna’s preachings, though very simple, sometimes not clear to me, being the past,
Swami’s teaching is more clear as I can get my answers immediately being the present.
But the essence of preachings from both these incarnations are exactly one and the same,
Not only these two, my experience say all human incarnations do teach us the same theme.
There are many different actions also present in these two forms,
Which I feel that they are basically as per the requirement of their programmes.
Ramakrishna did not cross even the boundary of a school, not to talk about higher education,
Worldly mathematics, He could not follow, as it was not a part of His mission.
The only and most sacred equation that He could understand was with His Divine Mother,
This whole world became a playground obviously, for this most sacred Divine Father.
Worldly people could not understand Him and His equation with His Mother, Maa Kaali,
They started calling Him as Paagal (mad) Thakur as their minds were full of dirts worldly.
In case of my Swami, He is highly educated and a scholar in this worldly education system,
As, in His mission, He has to teach all scientific people, the importance of real spiritualism.
Even if He does not cross these false barriers, it does not matter at all to Him,
But, He follows all natural rules, that too for our upliftment, nothing beneficial to Him.
I also call sometimes my Swami very lovingly as ‘Mad Datta’,
He enjoys it very much and corrects me by saying ‘Unmatta Datta’.
I definitely have no capability to understand my Swami’s depth of spiritual madness truly,
Hence, very lovingly with my body, mind and words I surrender to Him, my God fully.
Ramakrishna’s body used to shiver even by touching a single coin,
While Swami preaches very strongly the service and sacrifice to God and its significance.
Many a time, Swami jokes that He is not at all comparable with such a pious Ramakrishna,
I argue with Him saying same internal God showing different outer action as per His mission.
There is no question and comparison of piousness in both these two cases,
As being the same God, they are the source of all auspiciousness and piousness.
Even the un-pious like me becomes pious after coming under Swami’s umbrella,
I can’t even think anything un-pious about Swami, the most sacred and most pious.
Whether it is Ramakrishna Paramahamsa or my most beloved Swami,
Both of them are different forms of the same God, the same Antaryaami.
In fact, as per requirement of time, they descended down to this earth on different missions,
Both having the same power, exhibited differently for our growth in spiritualism.
I find no difference at all in these two incarnations,
As Ramakrishna showed me my Swami, confirming His presence.
I will never forget that divine smile of Ramakrishna caressing my hair,
Where He is assuring me that He only has come to me in the form of my Swami.
Even if the merging of these two had not happened in my dream,
I would have worshipped Swami as my God, this incident giving it an extra stamp.
The most simple behaviour in their day to day life,
Both these incarnations have really shown us the way of how to live life.
Whether they behave in the same way or not,
It is just a matter of time, maturity level of devotees and wish of the Unimaginable God.
In both these incarnations, the Unimaginable Parabrahman exists,
Who am I to judge this case of most beautiful, Unthinkable and the Infinite?
No doubt, the most charming personality in this whole universe is Swami only,
Still we forget Him and run behind all the things worldly.
No idea, when will I really understand His real value,
This whole lifetime seems to be too small to understand my goal clearly.
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