Swami Vivekananda humanified and humanised

Modifications to be Aug. 2008 reply: Quotes of those comments at my post No. 080 reply to Rajesh Anonymous said... I am sure that Ramakrishna paramahamsa would have lived simply as Ramakrishna or as Gadadhar if only someone had not taken the pains to foist Narendra into the asramam and then attempt to build a huge institution. He was a Kaali devotee content with that. The trouble was that people did not allow him to live in that mode. August 9, 2008 2:12 AM Multisubj Yb TruthSeeker said... Thank U. U R right. I agree. August 19, 2008 6:09 AM Oct 14, 2011: I am modifying my above comment: First of all, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa did not lead a simple life. He was a Godman of great common-sense and worldly wisdom. Like other Godmen, he knew which bread-loaf of his was buttered and which was not buttered. Simplicity was woven around him by his disciples like Vivekananda. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, if Narendra (Vivekananda) were not available, would have searched for anothe...

Quote from the book 'While sewing sandals' of Ms. Emma Rauschenbusch, chapter: 'An Ancient Tribe'. When it came to pass, twenty years ago, in the town of Ongole, in Southern India, that ten thousand Madigas turned to Christianity in one year, there was questioning as to the causes of this movement. Devout minds saw in the baptism of two thousand two hundred and twenty-two in one day a modern Pentecost, and were filled with wonder and gratitude. Others enquired with interest concerning accompanying circumstances and conditions, and when they heard of the famine which immediately preceded this movement toward Christianity, they were satisfied that they had here the moving cause. The desire to enter upon the experience of the Christian was considered to stand in direct proportion to the hunger that was gnawing. But the mass movement toward Christianity continued long after the famine was over. Sixty thousand Madigas are to-day counted as Christians. The Madiga community...