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The Holy Trinity

The Holy Trinity in the Ramakrishna Movement essentially refer to the three spiritual personalities of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, his holy consort Sri Sri Sharada Devi who is also refered to as the Holy Mother and their outstanding disciple Swami Vivekananda. Embodiments of all Vedanta and the essence of Hinduism, this holy trinity lived their lives in our contemporary times in a way that is inspiring. Read more about some of their sayings.

Parables of Sri Ramakrishna

Eternal truths when expressed through simple tales are easily understood by one and all. Tales and Parables therefore occupy a very important place in the teachings of great saints and sages. We have such inumerable tales and parables in the vedic scriptures, Bible and the teachings of Buddha. In the modern age, Sri Ramakrishna too, used this medium in a much more effective way. Here we present one such beautiful parable taken from the book "Tales and Parables of Sri Ramakrishna" Published by Sri Ramakrishna Math, Chennai

Welcome good, and evil welcomes you

A Brahmana was laying out a garden. He looked after it day and night. One day a cow strayed into the garden and browsed on a mango sapling of which the brahmana used to take special care. When he saw the cow destroying his favourite plant, the brahmana became wild with rage and gave a severe beating to the animal.

It received severe injuries and died on the spot. The news soon spread like wild-fire that the brahmana had killed the sacred animal. The messenger of death attributed the sin of that act to him, the brahmana, who professed himself to be a Vedantin, denied the charge, saying:"No, I have not killed the cow; it is my hand that had done it; and as God Indra is the presiding deity of the hand, it is he who has incurred the sin of killing the cow, not I." Indra came to know about this and decided to teach the brahmana a lesson.

Disguised as an old brahmana, he came to the owner of the garden, said, "Sir, whose garden is this?".
Brahmana:Mine
Indra:It is a beautiful garden. You have got a skilful gardener; for see how neatly and artistically he has planted the trees.
Brahmana:Well, sir, that is all my work. The trees were planted under my personal supervision and direction.
Indra:Very nicely done, indeed! Who has laid out this path? It is very well planned and neatly executed.
Brahmana: All that has been done by me.

Then Indra said with folded hands, "When all these things are yours, and when you take credit for all the work done in this garden, it is not proper that poor Indra should be made responsible for killing the cow."

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