Excelsior Correspondent
Jammu, Mar 15: The 186th birth anniversary of Bhagavan Sri Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Deva was celebrated with great fervour by the Ramakrishna Mission of Jammu at the Mission premises at Udheywala, today. A large number of devotees and local people gathered for the celebrations. Strict COVID-19 protocols were maintained by all the devotees and Swamijis during the entire event.
The full day celebration started at early morning with Mangalarati and vedic chanting. A special puja was performed. The devotees were enlightened with the life of Sri Ramakrishna by Secretary Maharaj Swami Nirantarananda ji Maharaj. The day long celebration was end after evening aarati and Bhajan. Bhog Prasad was also distributed to the devotees in the afternoon.
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa, a prominent figure in 19th century Bengali renaissance, was born in a remote village Kamarpukur in Hooghly district of undivided Bengal in 1836 and he was brought to Kolkata for earning livelihood. Despite being a petty temple priest in Dakshineswar, out of intense metaphysical quest he adventured into the realm of Spirit and attained cosmic consciousness with indomitable spiritual aspiration with his sublimated mind free from all worldly attachments and full of longing for God. With intense curiosity he wanted to know the truth of other major religions as well not as bookish knowledge but as a matter of direct experience as spirituality does not concern intellectual knowing but becoming and identifying with being beyond body-mind externals.
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