Ramnarayan Maharaj, Swami Yatishananda ji, passed away a day back. It came as a surprise that he
was 72 years old. He had taken the robes of a Sannyasin in 1972. To us he
looked much younger and his manners, still younger. He was cheerful, heartily
jumping into the fray with younger people and sometimes singly when younger
people too felt like sticking to formal ways. His free spirits propelled him away
from the danger of getting stuck up anywhere. You can bet, this bubbling
joy-stick, time and again jabbed hard at many smug and stuck-up logjams.
He was active in September
Vrindaban function, felt uneasy on return, found he had advanced liver
cancer (tumour), was hospitalised, willed himself to die on Ekadashi and
yielded to God’s will on Mahalaya eve.
To give a scope for the
very few, who wish to pursue a full time spiritual vocation, is a top priority
of Sri Ramakrishna’s Mission. A conducive community where young and old alike,
feel homely and heartened to lead a holy life is the way of doing it. Such a
community needs as its first requisite, a free flow of mutual love like which
was set in motion by God Incarnate out of Love for us humans.
Happy and free souls such
as our Ramnarayan Maharaj are the signs which show that Mother is always with
us.
Flash : Swami Yatishananda ji (Ramnarayan Maharaj) passed away on 14 October 2012, at about 10.55 pm at Seva Pratishthan, Kolkata. He was 72. Cremation was done at Belur on 15 October at 9.00 pm.
1. Vrindaban Function : http://www.rkmsvrind.org/Inauguration_Ceremony.pdf
http://www.rkmsvrind.org/Glimpses_of_Public_Function.pdf
2. At Dol Purnima in Belur Math : http://ramakrishnaashrama.blogspot.in/2012/03/swing-festival.html
See official obituary at: http://www.belurmath.org/news_archives/2012/11/08/obituaries-october-2012
A monastic brother, much younger to Ramanarayan Maharaj, but a close friend of him, recalls that he had heard from him that Maharaj had performed Durga Puja fourteen or fifteen times either as Tantradharak or as Pujari. It was significant that he passed away on Mahalaya day. Was he in a rush to meet his Mother?
He had performed Kali Puja too more often than Durga Puja.
