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Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa has spoken about Inter Galactic Space Traveller Narada Muni and young age Gnani Sukar in his teachings. By quoting the great people, he has taught us many spiritual truths. Here are some interesting titbits:
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Hanuman was blessed with the vision of God both with form and without it( Sakara and Nirakara). But he retained the ego of a servant of god . Such was the case with Narada, Sanaka, Sanandana, and Sanatkumara.
A devotee: Were Narada and others were only Bhaktas or were they Gnanis also?
The Master: Narada and others have attained the highest knowledge (Brahmagnana). But still went on like the murmuring water of the rivulet, talking and singing the praise of God. This shows that they too kept the ego of knowledge, a slight trace of individuality, to mark their separate existence from the Deity, for the purpose of teaching others the saving truths of religion.
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When the jar is full, it does not make a noise anymore. So the man of realisation too does not talk much. But what then about Narada and others? Yes. Narada, Suka Deva and a few others like them came down several steps after the attainment of Samadhi, and out of mercy and love they taught mankind.
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Homa Bird
There is a fabled species of birds called HOMA. They live so high up in the heavens and love those high regions so dearly that they never come down to earth. And it is said that they lay eggs in the sky and their young ones are hatched in mid-air as the eggs fall, pulled down by gravity. No sooner these fledgelings find out that they are falling downwards, than they immediately change their course and indistinctively fly upwards towards their home. Men like Narada, Sukadeva, Jesus and Sankaracharya are like these birds. Even in their boyhood they became free from all attachments to the things of the world and betook themselves to the highest regions of True Knowledge and Divine Light.
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How to pray is the question. Let us pray for the things of the world, but pray like saint Narada.
Narada said to Ramachandra “ O Rama, grant that I may be favoured with Bhakti (love, devotion and self surrender) for Thy Lotus Feet.
Be it so, Narada, said Rama, but will you not ask for anything else?
Narada replied, Lord may it please Thee to grant that I may not be attached by Thy Maya which fascinates the universe.
Ramachandra said one more
Be it so, Narada, said Rama, but will you not ask for anything else?
Narada replied, No Lord, that is all I pray for.
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Sukadeva was an Urdhvaretas ( a man of complete and unbroken continence); he had never any emission of semen. There was another kind called Dhairyaretas; who had discharge of retas at one time but subsequently practised absolute continence. If a man remains a Dhairyaretas continually for twelve years, he acquires a superhuman power. A new nerve is developed in him. It is called the nerve of intelligence (Medhanadi), and he can remember everything and know everything.
To be continued……………………………
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