The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
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  • The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
  • FOREWORD
  • PREFACE
  • THE RECORDER OF THE GOSPEL
  • INTRODUCTION
    • BOYHOOD
    • COMING TO CALCUTTA
    • BREAD-WINNING EDUCATION
    • KALI TEMPLE AT DAKSHINESWAR
    • SIVA
    • RADHAKANTA
    • KALI
    • SRI RAMAKRISHNA AS A PRIEST
    • THE FIRST VISION OF KALI
    • GOD-INTOXICATED STATE
    • HALADHARI
    • MARRIAGE AND AFTER
    • THE BRAHMANI
    • TANTRA
    • VAISHNAVA DISCIPLINES
    • RAMLALA
    • IN COMMUNION WITH THE DIVINE BELOVED
    • VEDANTA
    • TOTAPURI
    • KALI AND MAYA
    • TOTAPURI'S LESSON
    • COMPANY OF HOLY MEN AND DEVOTEES
    • ISLAM
    • CHRISTIANITY
    • ATTITUDE TOWARD DIFFERENT RELIGIONS
    • PILGRIMAGE
    • RELATION WITH HIS WIFE
    • THE "EGO" OF THE MASTER
    • SUMMARY OF THE MASTER'S SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES
    • BRAHMO SAMAJ
    • ARYA SAMAJ
    • KESHAB CHANDRA SEN
    • OTHER BRAHMO LEADERS
    • THE MASTER'S YEARNING FOR HIS OWN DEVOTEES
    • THE MASTER'S METHOD OF TEACHING
    • HOUSEHOLDER DEVOTEES
    • FUTURE MONKS
    • RAM AND MANOMOHAN
    • SURENDRA
    • KEDAR
    • HARISH
    • BHAVANATH
    • BALARAM BOSE
    • MAHENDRA OR M.
    • NAG MAHASHAY
    • GIRISH GHOSH
    • PURNA
    • MAHIMACHARAN AND PRATAP HAZRA
    • SOME NOTED MEN
    • KRISTODAS PAL
    • WOMAN DEVOTEES
      • GOPAL MA
    • MONASTIC DISCIPLES
      • LATU
      • RAKHAL
      • THE ELDER GOPAL
      • NARENDRA
      • TARAK
      • BABURAM
      • NIRANJAN
      • JOGINDRA
      • SASHI AND SARAT
      • HARINATH
      • GANGADHAR
      • HARIPRASANNA
      • KALI
      • SUBODH
      • SARADA AND TULASI
    • THE MARCH OF EVENTS
    • INJURY TO THE MASTER'S ARM
    • BEGINNING OF HIS ILLNESS
    • SYAMPUKUR
    • LAST DAYS AT COSSIPORE
    • MAHASAMADHI
  • MASTER AND DISCIPLE
  • IN THE COMPANY OF DEVOTEES
  • VISIT TO VIDYASAGAR
  • ADVICE TO HOUSEHOLDERS
  • THE MASTER AND KESHAB
  • THE MASTER WITH THE BRAHMO DEVOTEES (I)
  • THE MASTER AND VIJAY GOSWAMI
  • THE MASTER'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION AT DAKSHINESWAR
  • ADVICE TO THE BRAHMOS
  • THE MASTER WITH THE BRAHMO DEVOTEES (II)
  • WITH THE DEVOTEES AT DAKSHINESWAR (I)
  • THE FESTIVAL AT PANIHATI
  • THE MASTER AND M.
  • INSTRUCTION TO VAISHNAVAS AND BRAHMOS
  • LAST VISIT TO KESHAB
  • WITH THE DEVOTEES AT DAKSHINESWAR (II)
  • M. AT DAKSHINESWAR (I)
  • M. AT DAKSHINESWAR (II)
  • THE MASTER AND HIS INJURED ARM
  • RULES FOR HOUSEHOLDERS AND MONKS
  • A DAY AT DAKSHINESWAR
  • ADVICE TO AN ACTOR
  • FESTIVAL AT SURENDRA'S HOUSE
  • PUNDIT SHASHADHAR
  • ADVICE TO PUNDIT SHASHADHAR
  • FESTIVAL AT ADHAR'S HOUSE
  • AT DAKSHINESWAR
  • AT THE STAR THEATRE (I)
  • THE DURGA PUJA FESTIVAL
  • THE MASTER IN VARIOUS MOODS
  • ADVICE TO ISHAN
  • VISIT TO THE SINTHI BRAHMO SAMAJ
  • WITH VARIOUS DEVOTEES
  • BANKIM CHANDRA
  • AT THE STAR THEATRE (II)
  • THE MASTER'S BIRTHDAY
  • THE MASTER AND NARENDRA
  • WITH THE DEVOTEES IN CALCUTTA
  • THE MASTER'S REMINISCENCES
  • THE MASTER AT THE HOUSES OF BALARAM AND GIRISH
  • AT RAM'S HOUSE
  • CAR FESTIVAL AT BALARAM'S HOUSE
  • VISIT TO NANDA BOSE'S HOUSE
  • THE MASTER ON HIMSELF AND HIS EXPERIENCES
  • SRI RAMAKRISHNA AT SYAMPUKUR
  • THE MASTER AND DR. SARKAR
  • THE MASTER'S TRAINING OF HIS DISCIPLES
  • IN THE COMPANY OF DEVOTEES AT SYAMPUKUR
  • THE MASTER AT COSSIPORE
  • THE MASTER AND BUDDHA
  • THE MASTER'S LOVE FOR HIS DEVOTEES
  • AFTER THE PASSING AWAY
  • WITH KESHAB AT DAKSHINESWAR
  • Appendix B - A LETTER
  • A CHRONOLOGY OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA'S LIFE
  • GLOSSARY
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  1. INTRODUCTION

BEGINNING OF HIS ILLNESS

In April 1885 the Master's throat became inflamed. Prolonged conversation or absorption in samadhi, making the blood flow into the throat, would aggravate the pain. Yet when the annual Vaishnava festival was celebrated at Panihati, Sri Ramakrishna attended it against the doctor's advice. With a group of disciples he spent himself in music, dance, and ecstasy. The illness took a turn for the worse and was diagnosed as "clergyman's sore throat". The patient was cautioned against conversation and ecstasies. Though he followed the physician's directions regarding medicine and diet, he could neither control his trances nor withhold from seekers the solace of his advice. Sometimes, like a sulky child, he would complain to the Mother about the crowds, who gave him no rest day or night. He was overheard to say to Her; "Why do You bring here all these worthless people, who are like milk diluted with five times its own quantity of water? My eyes are almost destroyed with blowing the fire to dry up the water. My health is gone. It is beyond my strength. Do it Yourself, if You want it done. This (pointing to his own body) is but a perforated drum, and if you go on beating it day in and day out, how long will it last?"

But his large heart never turned anyone away. He said, "Let me be condemned to be born over and over again, even in the form of a dog, if I can be of help to a single soul." And he bore the pain, singing cheerfully, "Let the body be preoccupied with illness, but, O mind, dwell for ever in God's Bliss!"

One night he had a hemorrhage of the throat. The doctor now diagnosed the illness as cancer. Narendra was the first to break this heart-rending news to the disciples. Within three days the Master was removed to Calcutta for better treatment. At Balaram's house he remained a week until a suitable place could be found at Syampukur, in the northern section of Calcutta. During this week he dedicated himself practically without respite to the instruction of those beloved devotees who had been unable to visit him oftener at Dakshineswar. Discourses incessantly flowed from his tongue, and he often went into samadhi. Dr. Mahendra Sarkar, the celebrated homeopath of Calcutta, was invited to undertake his treatment.

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