The legend of Sri
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa -
Pranams at the lotus feet
of Thakurji!
Chapter – 14
Thakurji’s wife Saradadevi
arrived in Dhakshineshwar. He asked his
wife to attend his aged mother and he returned back to the service of Ma Kali.
Hridhayram continued the daily rituals of Ma Kali. The fame
of Ramakrishna Thakurji spread all over the place in Dhakshineshwar, several
disciples came to be with Thakurji, Swami Vivekananda/Narendranath Dutt,
Bhramanda, Niranjjanand, Athbhuthanandh, Sadanand, and many devotees arrived,
several prominent people and devotees were becoming a disciple of Thakurji, some
people who were really afflicted with various illnesses also came there to be
with the divine presence of Thakurji.
Thakurji had a desire to
visit Kashi and have a Dharshan of Baba Vishwanath, Madhuranath made all the arrangements to
fulfill the desire of Thakurji and left to Kashi. On January 17th, 1868, they arrived
at Baidhyanath Dham and Kashi. Thakurji
met Thrailangaswamiji and told Madhuranath “ he is divine personified, he is
Lord Vishwanatha of Kashi,”. They
proceed to Vrindavan and various sacred places and returned to
Dhakshineshwar. Madhuranath noticed the
spiritual achievement of Thakurji, it enthused him. There were people who where jealous of the spiritual
achievement of him. Once Thakurji was in Ardhasamadhi, then the priest of Kalighat Haldhar mocked at him, he went close to
Thakurji and started talking disrespectfully, he did not receive any reply from
Thakurji, so kicked him hard and went off.
Actually, Thakurji was not in a position to talk anything, he thought if
Madhuranath comes to know that the priest kicked him and went away, he will not
tolerate. Soon, the priest was removed
from the work due to some malpractices.
One day Thakurji discussed the matter of the priest of Kalighat with
all, Madhuranath burst into rage, "why you did not tell me before? If you were
told me that day, I would have cut him alive.”
