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A thread on Sri Ramakrishna the Master
Read The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna #TGoSR almost daily
He makes me laugh; He makes me cry #TeJo
Got the mantra from Him on Thursday 18ᵗʰ March 2010 on the b'day of Edgar Cayce, my first Guru
Some snippets from The Gospel and 📙 ④ Ramakrishna: A Maverick of a Mystic #RAMoaM
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from Chapter 28. At The Star Theatre (I) #TGoSR
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"Once I visited Hriday's house at Sihore. From there I was taken to Syambazar. I had a vision of Gauranga before I entered the village, and I realized that I should meet Gauranga's devotees there. For seven days and nights I was surrounded by a huge crowd of people. Such attraction! Nothing but kirtan and dancing day and night. People stood in rows on the walls and even were in the trees.
"I stayed at Natavar Goswami's house. It was crowded day and night. In the morning I would run away to the house of a weaver for a little rest. There too I found that people would gather after a few minutes. They carried drums and cymbals with them, and the drum constantly played: 'Takuti! Takuti!' We would have our meal at three in the afternoon.
"The rumour spread everywhere that a man had arrived who died [Referring to the Master's samadhi] seven times and came back to life again. Hriday would drag me away from the crowd to a paddy-Held for fear I might have an attack of heat apoplexy. The crowd would follow us there like a line of ants. Again the cymbals and the never-ending 'Takuti! Takuti!' of the drums. Hriday scolded them and said: 'Why do you bother us like this? Have we never heard kirtan?'
"The Vaishnava priests of the village came and almost started a quarrel. They thought I would take their share of the fees from the devotees. But soon they discovered that I didn't touch a piece of cloth or even a thread. Someone remarked that I was a Brahmajnani. So the Vaishnava pundits wanted to test me. One said, 'Why hasn't he beads, and a mark on his fore-head?' Another of them replied, 'They have dropped from him, as the dry branch from a coconut tree.' It was there that I learnt this illustration of the dry branch of a coconut tree. The upadhis, limitations, drop when one attains Knowledge.
"People came thronging from distant villages. They even spent the night there. At Syambazar I learnt the meaning of divine attraction. When God incarnates Himself on earth He attracts people through the help of Yogamaya, His Divine Power. People become spellbound."
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From Chapter 28. At the Star Theatre-I #TGoSR
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A DEVOTEE: "Sir, what is the significance of Sri Krishna's stealing the gopis' clothes?"
MASTER: "There are eight fetters that bind a person to the world. The gopis were free from all but one: shame. Therefore Krishna freed them from that one, too, by taking away their clothes. On attaining God one gets rid of all fetters.
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Jatin and Zatara
You can't trap/trip up the Master easily
From Chapter 33. With Various Devotees #TGoSR
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MASTER: "The jnanis regard everything as illusory, like a dream; but the bhaktas accept all the states. The milk flows only in dribblets from the jnani. (All laugh.) There are some cows that pick and choose their fodder; hence their milk flows only in dribblets. But cows that don't discriminate so much, and eat whatever they get, give milk in torrents. A superior devotee of God accepts both the Absolute and the Relative; therefore he is able to enjoy the Divine even when his mind comes down from the Absolute. Such a devotee is like the cows that give milk in torrents." (All laugh.)
MAHIMA: "But the milk of a cow that eats without discrimination smells a little." (Laughter.)
MASTER (with a smile): "That's true, no doubt. Therefore that milk should be boiled. One should boil such milk over the fire a little while; there will be no smell whatever if you boil the milk over the fire of Knowledge. (All laugh)
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AFAIK, there's only one instance in The Gospel where He's lost for words
From Chapter 36. The Master's Birthday #TGoSR
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Sri Ramakrishna took some refreshments and handed some to Narendra.
JATIN DEVA (to the Master): "You always say: 'Narendra, eat this! Eat that!' Are the rest of us fools? Are we like straw washed ashore by the flood-tide?"
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The Spanish have a word for that: Zatara [“driftwood”], as we saw in The Count of Monte Cristo film
The Master is at a loss for words, for a change, and sidesteps:
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Sri Ramakrishna loved Jatin dearly. Jatin visited the Master now and then at Dakshineswar and occasionally spent the night there. He belonged to an aristocratic family of Sobhabazar. The Master said laughingly to Narendra, "He is talking about you."
Sri Ramakrishna laughed and showed his affection to Jatin by touching his chin. He said to Jatin, "Come to Dakshineswar; I'll give you plenty to eat."
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There are assholes on various WhatsApp groups
Wish we could display their messages in an ellipsis...mode, sort of like what we see in View Once mode
Wish they add Text messages 🥠 as well to the existing set of 🖼️ 📹 and 🔉 that can be shared in View/Hear once mode
If you are in a good mood, you open them 😄 ಅಷ್ಟೇ
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I have become selfish of late
I see the WhatsApp Status of only those folks who see my WhatsApp Status ✅ Otherwise, nope ❌
One guy on our WIMWI group said: Who wants to see the TV 📺 of others‽
I wish that i could mute his junk posts with a 🆕 WhatsApp feature that shows messages 🥠 from all my muted folks on a group with an ellipsis, like the messages 🥠 in View/Hear Once mode, so that i can quickly delete them
image source:
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we had a similar question in our IIT-JEE 1981 exam: Which is greater: e^π or π^e
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When Yuvi went berserk #OnThisDay in 2007:
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from 171 to 207 [matching the year 😉] in the space of 6 balls
loved my namesake and fellow Gemini ♊ adding his masala from the commentary box
@RaviShastriOfc
Since it's 19 years to the day, the Metonic cycle ensures that the tithi is also more or less the same!
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some snippets of brief #NumboJumbo of well-known people, starting with Stan the Man Kubrick from the Bronx, born Thursday 26ᵗʰ July 1928
From 📙 ⑧ Numbo Jumbo: My Experiments with Numerology sites.google.com/site/shastr… #NumboJumbo
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They said that the 21ˢᵗ century belonged to 🇮🇳
We are seeing that happen since 2014
Some thoughts on what i'd like to see happening this decade
अमृत काल / मेरा भारत 🇮🇳 महान
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Subject: A Birthday Request for 🇮🇳: Resetting IST to GMT+5 via the Sacred Ujjain Meridian 🕉️⏳
Respected Pradhan Mantri Ji @narendramodi
Wishing you a very happy 76ᵗʰ birthday! As you guide 🇮🇳 into Amrit Kaal by shedding the remnants of a colonial mindset, we request a historic correction to how 🇮🇳 measures time
Currently, IST sits at a fractional GMT +5:30, a legacy compromise chosen by the British to bridge their trading ports. This half-hour fraction serves as a constant friction point for modern global software, aviation, and commerce
We request you to reset IST to a clean GMT +5 by officially reclaiming Ujjain—the ancient Madhya Rekha (Zero Meridian) of 🇮🇳 astronomy—as our civilizational time reference
Why this change is vital:
* Decolonizing Time: Moving away from the British-engineered Mirzapur meridian allows us to embrace the scientific heritage of Ujjain's Mahakaleshwar Temple, the true historical "Lord of Time" and center of astronomical mathematics
* The "Ujjain Shield" Over Geopolitics: While critics may quibble that GMT+5 aligns 🇮🇳 with the time zone of neighboring Pakistan, this is a geographical coincidence. Our alignment is explicitly anchored to the Tropic of Cancer crossing the Mahakal meridian, reclaiming a scientific legacy that predates modern borders by millennia
* Economic Efficiency: A whole-hour time zone simplifies global financial markets, digital scheduling, and international tech coordination
Pradhan Mantri Ji, you have successfully revitalized our spiritual corridors. Let us now restore our cosmic and mathematical center. On your birthday, we pray you return 🇮🇳 to the true rhythm of Mahakal!
Yours sincerely,
ShāstriXānanda
PS: Message created with suitable prompting of my fellow Gemini ✦ @sundarpichai
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On the bicentennial of Bernhard Riemann, the Riemann Hypothesis still remains one
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The Nepal 🇳🇵tragedy [on 26ᵗʰ August 2026] hit close to home as four folks were from our gated community in Whitefield
Both NRK Raman and Sankar V are pleasant people and always smiling & helpful; they were both iFlexers, as i came to know later
Got some info from the x-iFlexers, which later showed up on Social Media
This thread is a compilation of my own view of the tragedy
After tennis mid August, ran into NRK Raman जी twice on M4:
1. In front of the North Gate to Phase 3
2. Further up M4, near the intersection with Avenue 25
Asked him why he's walking around so much
He said that he was prepping for the Mansarovar trek/trip
We chatted for a while; he's a kind man, always cheerful and wishing me even while playing tennis
Wanted to take a pic with him on M4, but that never happened
His parting shot was: If you ever do the Mansarovar trip, ensure that you have no pic of the Dalai Lama on your phone; if the Chinese 🇨🇳 folks see it, they'll never let you in!
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness ⛰️~The 14ᵗʰ Dalai Lama
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Sharing the 🎂 with NaMo, NRK Raman जी would have been 68 #OnThisDay
My eternal ♾️ regret will be that i never took a pic with him when i ran into him TWICE on #M4, prepping for the Kailash Mansarovar trip
Unusually, the others who went back home that day from PM were all 💎inis, Les Gémeaux ♊
* Sankar V, 24ᵗʰ May
* Rema Raman, 26ᵗʰ May
* Srividya Shankar, 16ᵗʰ June
_Note: Apart from the b'day of Sankar which i knew, all the other b'days were seen in the 2026.0827.2100.MissingForeigners PDF_
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Seen in Mind of a Mathematician:
| Another feature of prime numbers is that, as numbers grow bigger, primes usually occur less frequently — but not always. For example, 360,287 and 360,289 are twin primes, but the primes on either side of them are much farther apart [sic]
| In 2013, Yitang Zhang, a mathematician at the University of New Hampshire, proved that there are an infinite number of primes that are separated by, at most, 70 million. This set off a worldwide effort to prove that there are also an infinite number of primes separated by smaller numbers. Pooling their efforts and intelligence, Tao and a dozen others threw themselves at the problem, at times narrowing the gap of primes every half hour. To date, they have managed to prove that there are an infinite number of primes separated by, at most, 246, but Tao still hopes someday to get it down to 2
| “I’ve proved a lot of other things related to prime numbers, but not that one,” he says. “That’s the one I would most love to have”
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As a kid growing up off RK Beach Vizag 🏖️ one of the things i learned automatically on the backwash of the wave is to lift one foot and stand on one leg 🦵 If the backwash lasts too long, you swap the op with the other leg
If you stand with both legs firmly on the sand, there's a good chance of getting pulled in by the backwash, as the sand gets gouged from under your feet by the backwash
This is of course the art of letting go 💨 Or, in this case, Le'go 😉
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It's very difficult to make money in the real world. Not me saying it, but my fellow Snake 🐍 Michael Dell
Arrive at the limit of your OpEx
Anything above it is your CapEx
Incur that expense only if there's no choice. As our WIMWI Prof. VL Mote said: If you don't have a choice, you don't have a problem
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