One day at that time I was seated under the Panchavati. I was in a state of ordinary
consciousness, well aware of my surroundings.
All of a sudden a luminous female figure ofexquisite grace appeared before me. Her radiance lit up everything around her. I could see her, and at the same time I could see the trees and plants of the Panchavati, the Ganges, everything. I saw that she was human, for she had no marks of a divine being upon her, such
as a third eye.
But the sublime qualities reflected in her face – love, sorrow, compassion, and fortitude – are seldom to be seen even among goddesses.
Slowly she advanced towards me, from the direction of the north, all the while looking at me with gracious eyes. I was amazed. I was wondering who she might be when suddenly a monkey uttered a cry, fell at her feet, and rolled on the ground.
Then it came to me in a flash that she must be Sita, the daughter of King Janaka, who had suffered so greatly all her life, and whose whole life had been devoted to her husband, Rama.
Overcome by emotion, I cried out ‘Mother’ and was about to fall at her feet when she instantly passed into my body and became merged in it. Overwhelmed with joy and wonder, I fell unconscious on the ground. This was the first vision I ever had with my eyes wide open, and when I wasn’t meditating. It seems that it is because my first such vision was of Sita in her sorrowful aspect that I’ve had so much suffering in my life.
- Sri Ramakrishna,
Sri Ramakrishna and His Divine Play, P 228
consciousness, well aware of my surroundings.
All of a sudden a luminous female figure ofexquisite grace appeared before me. Her radiance lit up everything around her. I could see her, and at the same time I could see the trees and plants of the Panchavati, the Ganges, everything. I saw that she was human, for she had no marks of a divine being upon her, such
as a third eye.
But the sublime qualities reflected in her face – love, sorrow, compassion, and fortitude – are seldom to be seen even among goddesses.
Slowly she advanced towards me, from the direction of the north, all the while looking at me with gracious eyes. I was amazed. I was wondering who she might be when suddenly a monkey uttered a cry, fell at her feet, and rolled on the ground.
Then it came to me in a flash that she must be Sita, the daughter of King Janaka, who had suffered so greatly all her life, and whose whole life had been devoted to her husband, Rama.
Overcome by emotion, I cried out ‘Mother’ and was about to fall at her feet when she instantly passed into my body and became merged in it. Overwhelmed with joy and wonder, I fell unconscious on the ground. This was the first vision I ever had with my eyes wide open, and when I wasn’t meditating. It seems that it is because my first such vision was of Sita in her sorrowful aspect that I’ve had so much suffering in my life.
- Sri Ramakrishna,
Sri Ramakrishna and His Divine Play, P 228
Jay Thakur ��
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