The New Coming of Ramakrishna

Sri Ramakrishna, Source: https://rkmrajahmundry.org/holy-trio/sri-ramakrishna/

Hindu spiritual history is full of miracles and great Divine Teachers. One of the greatest of these is Ramakrishna. Born into the nineteenth century, he embodied the Divine qualities of both Rama and Krishna and became 'Ramakrishna'. After attaining the highest state of consciousness of a Hindu yogi, Nirbikalpa Samadhi, he turned to other spiritual traditions. Because of his final self-realization in yoga, he was able to experience the highest spiritual states of other traditions. Practicing the Buddhist path for a while, he experienced the state of nirvana. At another time, he took up the practice of the Islamic tradition and experienced the great spiritual beauty and treasures of this path through direct contact with Muhammad. Later, he was very deeply touched emotionally by the mystery of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection, and experienced this mystery completely by merging with Christ. The mission of Ramakrishna was to confirm that all spiritual traditions come from one and the same Divine Source and all lead back to Him.

In one of his intimate conversations with the Divine Mother he was told that he would be embodied again in the middle of the twentieth century somewhere in Europe in order to continue his mission. We can expect that when Ramakrishna comes again he will work for the integration of all religions and spiritual paths and continue his devoted worship of the Divine Mother. In the time of the Second Coming and the return of humankind to the Kingdom of God, the Divine Mother is the One who holds the reality of the New Heaven and the New Earth. Ramakrishna, ecstatically devoted to the Divine Mother, in his new embodiment will proclaim her mysteries and the birth of the new spiritual world.

Thanks to Ramakrishna's spiritual achievements, the idea of the unity and integration of all religions has been extremely vivid and real. The Divine Avatar, Babaji, requested Sri Yukteswar to show the unity of the Hindu and Christian traditions, which he did in the book The Holy Science. Sri Yogananda, Sri Yukteswar most famous disciple, taught Kriya Yoga and worked for the unity of all religions throughout the whole of his mission in the western world. Moreover, Yogananda had a deep contact with Ramakrishna through one of his closest disciples.

The idea of the integration of all religions passes as a golden thread throughout the history of Hinduism in the twentieth century and gives inspiring and fruitful results in the missions of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, Sai Baba, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and many others. Certainly, the mystery of the Second Coming is connected with the integration of all spiritual paths and religions.

In my spiritual journey, lasting more than forty years, the Yoga tradition, especially the Divine Guru Ramakrishna, was my first love and will remain so forever.  In the difficult time of the socialist system in Russia and Eastern Europe my spiritual awakening came through the Yoga tradition and the inspiring example of Paramahansa Ramakrishna.

In 1971, working on my PhD, I attended a covert yoga group in Moscow, Russia. One of the first books which I read was The Life of Ramakrishna by Romain Rolland. I was so deeply impressed by the story of Ramakrishna that I lived with this story for weeks and months. According to Romain Rolland, Ramakrishna, after attaining the highest state of consciousness of a Hindu yogi, Nirbikalpa Samadhi, turned to other spiritual traditions. Because of his ultimate self-realisation in Yoga he was able to experience the highest spiritual states of other traditions too. For instance, practising the Buddhist path for a while, he experienced the state of nirvana. At another time, he took up the practice of the Islamic tradition and experienced the great spiritual beauty and treasures of this path through direct contact with Muhammad. Later, he was very deeply touched emotionally by the mystery of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection, and experienced this mystery by merging with Christ. The mission of Ramakrishna was to confirm that all spiritual traditions come from one and the same Divine Source and all lead back to this Source. Ramakrishna was also ecstatically devoted to the Divine Mother:

In various ways Sri Ramakrishna tasted the bliss of communion with God - sometimes merging himself totally in the Absolute, sometimes as a child of the Divine Mother maintaining an appearance of duality.

Source: Thus Spake Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Ramakrishna Math,

Madras, p. x-xi

At that time I embraced with all my heart the concept of the integration of all religions and, of course, Ramakrishna was the perfect example for me. I also became very inspired by the mystery of the Divine Mother. In other words, at this time Ramakrishna was a wonderful embodiment of my most cherished spiritual goals.

Following his inspiring example, I set out on the journey to achieve the highest states of consciousness of various religions, as he did. I was very impressed by his style of life, by his prayers, by his visions of the Divine Mother, by his state of Samadhi. I tried to live the spiritual life as he lived, in great devotion and in great purity.

It was a very interesting period in my life - going regularly into the mountains to pray, to meditate, to feel the purity of the etheric body of Sri Ramakrishna and aspiring to attain this. Following the example of Sri Ramakrishna, I had very subtle spiritual and mystical experiences.

Sri Ramakrishna used to tell his disciples that when he raised Kundalini, the Kundalini energy was first as a tiny stream in his spinal cord, then it filled the whole spine, after this the whole body began to vibrate as a column of Kundalini energy. Deepening his meditation Ramakrishna felt that his body, as a column of energy, was becoming bigger and bigger and finally dissolved into the Universal Kundalini energy. Reaching this ultimate state, the Divine Guru Ramakrishna slowly came back, in reverse order, to his physical body – reducing the universal energy to the shape of his body, then to the spinal cord, then to the tiny stream of energy in it and finally even it disappeared. Sri Ramakrishna used to say also that in the state of Samadhi he saw the whole of Creation as a Temple, full of dazzling light, with brightly lit chandeliers.

At some stage I was able to experience Creation as a dazzling Divine Temple. When I followed his example of raising Kundalini, from time to time, I dissolved into the Universal energy and was able also to enjoy the bliss of communion with God - sometimes merging totally in the Absolute, sometimes as a child of the Divine Mother maintaining an appearance of duality.

Later on I developed the ability to see the Divine Mother and to speak with her as Sri Ramakrishna did. Of course it was quite rare in those times, while Sri Ramakrishna spent many days in direct communion with the Divine Mother. Nevertheless, the contact with the Divine Mother came to me through Ramakrishna. It came much later but it came through him.

In retrospect I could say that Sri Ramakrishna helped me not only to purify and develop my etheric body – he directly influenced my entire spiritual journey and my Mission. In a similar way as Ramakrishna, I experienced some of the highest states of consciousness in the world religions - in Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism and others. I have a great love and devotion to the Divine Mother and in my book The Second Coming I introduced Her Gospel – The Gospel of the Divine Mother. The results of my spiritual work, influenced by the Divine Guru Ramakrishna, are described in the book The Second Coming and the eBook - On the Path of Enlightenment. Naturally, I would be happy to share my experiences and to help people on their Yoga Path.  

Even now my mystical connection with Paramahansa Ramakrishna continues and gives me, every now and again, unexpected spiritual visions and fruits. Of course, it is not by chance, because he was my first spiritual love and remains always with me.

In his Indian incarnation the Divine Guru Ramakrishna was an embodiment of Rama and Krishna. In his New Coming Ramakrishna can even become a manifestation of Masters from different traditions in order to confirm the absolute mystical unity of all religions. Meeting the New Coming of Ramakrishna, we will experience the highest states of consciousness in the world religions (such as Samadhi, Nirvana, Resurrection, Transfiguration, Revelation) and devotion to the Divine Mother as Ramakrishna did.