let me talk about the most dynamic the most well-known disciple of sri ramakrishna
the one who is stolen the heart of so many thousands and thousands of people worldwide
at the end of last century when one of these major newspapers india did a survey in india regarding
who is the spiritual light of the last century the indian public in india voted this personality
to be the outstanding winner top of the league you may have thought it will be whereas gandhi
or there are so many other personalities in the last century marvel's personalities all of them
and yet this person comes way out way ahead of everybody so the indians in india
the hindus in india are fully aware of the potency of this personality became world famous as swami
vivekananda let me tell you the story and how he begins and give a bit of magic and mystery as well
this ramakrishna one day went into dps of meditation these are his words
you see my meditation my mind went into a state where the form and the formless meet
where the akar sakhar meets the nirakar and there is a kind of a boundary there where the formless
becomes formless the the form the one with form becomes formless there is a boundary
just on the boundary said look at this language i saw seven seven ancient sages of india
sitting in deep meditation and my mind in this state of meditation was wondering what marvelous
personalities these are they sit on the boundary of the sapex in the the relative and the absolute
the nirakar and the sakhar the form and the formless because if they merge in the formless
they can no longer interact with the rest of the rest of the world so they deliberately sit on the
fence between the formless and the form or between the relative and the absolute self-action nearby
they sit on the boundary and they are sitting in glorious in their majesty in deepest of meditation
and my mind was wondering what marvelous personalities for the sake of mankind they
don't want to merge in the in the absolute they want to continue to link up with the
relative so they can interact with humanity what marvelous personalities and my mind was wondering
and while it was wondering suddenly i saw that that part you know of the space look this space
you may think what is all about the space in which we see this world is just this kind of
physical space there are many other spaces for example when we go into dream state we
live in a different space when we are in deep meditation we live in a different space as well
this is spiritual it's very real it is not make-believe it's not just imaginary very
real this is the space which comes alive and he said i saw that part of space take
on the form of a little baby he says describing he's examining the goes to the boundary of the
relative suppression absolute and there he says apart the space there took on a form of a little
baby and if the baby went to one of the sages one of the sages sitting in deep meditation
very glorious and started to try and awaken him try to touch him wake him up and after some effort
the sage opened his eyes and you could see this this is describing this experience and he could
see that the sage loved this child most dearly he was the apple of his eye you could see that
and the child pointed saying this way and the sage with his eyes showed his acceptance he
said the sage was that the child was saying come with me to earth and they said you say i'll come
and he said when i saw this narendra for the first time
i knew immediately this is the sage that i saw in meditation who said he'll come down
and after a lot of protein by his disciples in later life he admitted the child was himself
after pushing even straightaway wouldn't agree to stuff like that you know even taking his picture
was a big nuisance you know it's difficult to take his picture so he admitted finally now you
see let me tell you the story of this child if you like this marvelous personality look when
you see an image of swami vivekananda who does it remind you of think about it who does it remind
you the child the image of swami vivekananda in full majesty with closed eyes in deep meditation
see his eyes are not strained they are not screwed up they are perfectly kind of relaxed the whole
system is in complete control and you have to vibrate with spirituality who does he remind us of
to me he reminds me of shiva you see he is if you like sometimes somebody said billy if i talk about
shivaratri and shiva i say forget about shurati i'll talk about the shiva who fell down to earth
the peace of shiva will come down to earth that is this viva kanan the majesty his love
of meditation is his kind of magnanimous nature you know shiva is considered magnanimous ashuto
she gives everything away and this viva kanan was like he gave everything away anything and
everything anybody came here he dished it out he wouldn't hesitate to give away anything
that huge heart that compassionate heart is the heart of shiva this is the story of this
thing this piece of shiva coming down to earth is born in kolkata in the middle class family
cold you see i told you the names give away the title is called is named narendra
the word narendra means king of man if like the king of humanity a champion of
mankind and that is precisely what he was a champion of mankind he throughout his life you
see he's not in love with god he's in love with mankind he wants to left mankind up not god who
has time for god he sees his god in man and women he's the champion of mankind the name suited him
perfectly this boy had an unusual habit whenever he went to sleep at night this is standard story
when he closed his eyes young boy he would see a bowl of light changing colors
then the bowl of light will get bigger and bigger and become gloriously white
and cover his whole being it become bigger and bigger and seem to kind of he becomes kind of
encapsulated in that you'll kind of cover him up and then fall asleep now he thought this is how
everybody goes to sleep otherwise you can't fall asleep until you see this ball of light
so in his class he asked the boys you know this bowl of light there's a wood ball of
light at night is the pitch dark what balls of light he said i don't know strange after
he made the ram question wrong question my boy do you see the light at night he said yes
ah he said i knew it you are actually the boy was not going to sleep he was going to deep
meditation every night he was a dhyana siddhi rishi and rather than sit you know in posture
saying okay six am in the morning sunrise sit on meditation when he fell asleep going to deepest
of meditation every night without any practice without any any initiation he was dhyana siddha
he could enter into meditation without knowing what's it seeing bowls of light boom goes into it
you