My greetings to all readers. May
you all live long and have happy, fruitful and good lives.
In my capacity as a
self-appointed homage-payer of great lives lived in the Ramakrishna Movement, I
am right now in the happy circumstances of not being able to pay my homage to
any departing great soul because no one is in a hurry to do it these last few
months. While thanking the Almighty for Her grace I pray she also does
something to soothe them during their suffering while here on earth.
When I get to meet God
face-to-face, I intend to ask Him why it has to be like this: that many great
ones suffer pains; well, when it comes to that, I intend to ask Her why even
lesser ones should suffer. But it is a fact that many of the great sufferers,
they were great and their sufferings too were great, …well, …these great ones,
had no complaint when they suffered, they continued to love God in and through
suffering, thus saying between the lines that loving God is the answer to God
giving us suffering. Along with it I am supposed to see to it that I don't do
things to invite sufferings.
Well, I suppose the relationship
between God and Humans is quiet complicated.
Coming back to my homage-paying
affair, there are lots of good people, some known and some not as well known as
they ought to have been and some completely unknown, all of them so obligingly
dead, for me to pay my homage.
I begin with my homage to Swami
Parananda of Ramakrishna Mission a.k.a. Padmanabhan Tampi.
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Announced to the Public in October 1941
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Announced to the Public in October 1941
17th August 1941 : Swami Parananda (No. 2) (Padmanabhan):
We are sorry to record the death of Swami Parananda
(No. 2) of the Trivandrum Ashrama on the
17th August 1941 at the age of 74.
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