Kali's child and Krishna's lover: An anatomy of Ramakrishna's Caritas Divina |
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Authors: | Narasingha P |
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Institution: | aHistory, Western Oregon University, 345 N. Monmouth Avenue, Monmouth, OR 97361, USA |
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Abstract: | The famous 19th-century Bengali saint Shri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa has almost universally been regarded as a Shakta (sometimes confused with Tantrika) devotee of the Mother Goddess Kali. His association with the Kali temple at Daksineshvar, in the northern suburb of Calcutta, has no doubt been a powerful argument behind his Shakta/Tantrika affiliation. This paper argues that Ramakrishna was essentially a bhakta (devotee) in the Vaisnava tradition and his cultural and family inheritance. His idea of the divine and his career and logia as a priest and a saint provide ample justification to consider him essentially a Vaisnava whose spiritual battle-cry was to demand to have dalliance with God. |
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Keywords: | Ramakrishna Chaitanya Vaisnavism |
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