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RAM KRISHNA MISSION TEMPLES

Shri R. R. Diwakar "while the history of Ramakrishna’s spiritual Sadhana is unique, his Sadhana as woman stands by itself. The various paths that Shri Ramakrishna followed led equally to the experience of unitive life with the Highest Spirit. He assumed the role of a woman devotee and
that too took him to the same goal. All this enabled him to synthesize, and sarva- dharma-samanwaya became one of the main teachings of his life.

His attitude towards woman, as we know from his conduct towards his own wife, was one of very great respect, equality and affection. He had trained his mind to see the Mother in every woman. That he lived as a celibate throughout his life, though married, was more out of an
overwhelming absorption with spirituality and spiritual consciousness rather than out of any kind of disrespect or sense of hostility towards womanhood.

He oftentimes repeated in his teachings that one-must not be tempted by lust for gold and woman. But there was no trace A
dislike or hatred either in his relationship with his wife or any other woman or women with whom he casually came in contact as devotees or admirers. He was, however, alive to the discriminating way in which woman was looked upon in Society."8


8 Paramahansa Sri Ramakrishna by R.R. Diwakar, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1956, p. 144.

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