{"id":16717,"date":"2020-07-06T07:46:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T12:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/?p=16717"},"modified":"2020-07-06T07:54:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T12:54:28","slug":"sri-ramakrishna-gave-vivekananda-samadhi-can-maharshi-do-the-same-for-me-pulkit-mathur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/sri-ramakrishna-gave-vivekananda-samadhi-can-maharshi-do-the-same-for-me-pulkit-mathur\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Ramakrishna Gave Vivekananda Samadhi, Can Maharshi Do the Same for Me? ~ Pulkit Mathur"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"headline_area\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One day a young, well-educated man came to Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, prostrated and sat down. Addressing Bhagavan he said, \u201cRamakrishna Paramahamsa was able to elevate Vivekananda to the state of Nirvikalpa Samadhi with just a touch. Can Bhagavan do the same for me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi did not say anything. The young man waited with obvious impatience for Bhagavan\u2019s reply. After a few minutes of silence, Bhagavan looked at the youth and, in a soft voice asked, \u201cYou are another Vivekananda, I presume?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The young man was taken aback. He was at a loss for words. Greatly embarrassed, he left the hall quietly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bhagavan then told us,\u00a0<strong>\u201cIt is difficult to appreciate the need for self-analysis and self-criticism. The tendency is to think of oneself as perfect.<\/strong>\u00a0Though this person was eager to see whether I had the power of Sri Ramakrishna, he was not bothered whether he himself merited comparison with Vivekananda. That is because he assumed that he was perfect. Sri Ramakrishna bestowed that rare state upon Vivekananda alone because he was a person of rare spiritual merit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"color: #808080;\">Credit:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>This article is from the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"http:\/\/spiritualbee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/spiritualbee.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1562430161436000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHv-xtWtBK2aYQITMfpElSAHgO3xQ\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">spiritualbee.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">.<\/span> It has been republished here with permission.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>Image Credit : Pixabay.com<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"graf-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-images-1.medium.com\/max\/1600\/0*3pZGvf3qbmx-Wry_.gif\" data-image-id=\"0*3pZGvf3qbmx-Wry_.gif\" data-width=\"1\" data-height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day a young, well-educated man came to Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, prostrated and sat down. Addressing Bhagavan he said, \u201cRamakrishna Paramahamsa was able to elevate Vivekananda to the state of Nirvikalpa Samadhi with just a touch. Can Bhagavan do the same for me?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":16720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,112],"tags":[26,1492,1837,1497],"class_list":{"0":"post-16717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-awakening","8":"category-blogs","9":"tag-living-librarian","10":"tag-pulkit-mathur","11":"tag-ramana-maharshi","12":"tag-swami-vivekananda"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16719,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16717\/revisions\/16719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}