Swami Turiyananda - Words of Wisdom

What was the nature of the spiritual experiences that held Rama Krishna's disciples to his side?

Why is it that such strong healthy young persons never wearied of him?

In answer to these questions Swami Turiyananda answered:

''Rama Krishna showed us the Face of the Eternal.

After that we stayed on with him hoping that through his compassion and by training, we would see him again.

Once a disciple always a disciple.

Think of the possibility of being thrown in Samadhi - a thing for which men toil for a hundred incarnations and by a single touch of his finger or foot!

How could we leave his side, we who were so greedy like all youth to taste Bliss Absolute again and again.

He enabled us to stare into the Eyes of God at least once; that naturally blinded us to this world.

We see nothing here, and whatever we do see is filled with the brimming Light of Tat (That).

No matter what we see or feel, it says, 'You are He, you are He - Tat Tam Asi.'

That is what Rama Krishna did to us.

After such an event we were tethered to him as the bird is to the sky - it may go very far in many directions, yet it will remain under the many-branched sky.''

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