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Ramakrishna Paramhansa Dying from Cancer
Osho:
Ramakrishna was dying. He had cancer of the throat, and in his last days it
became impossible for him even to drink water.
Vivekananda said to him, ”Bhagwan, can’t you ask God to do you just a little
favor? If you simply ask God that at least you should be allowed to
eat and drink it is bound to happen. It is becoming too great a suffering
for your body – and not only for your body but for us all. We cannot eat
because we know you cannot eat. It has become impossible for us to drink
because we know you cannot drink. How can we drink? So if you don’t care
about yourself, okay, but think of us – we are also suffering. Just for our
sake close your eyes and say to God, ’Do me just a small favor.’”
Ramakrishna closed his eyes, opened them and started laughing. He said, ”You
fool! If I listen to your advice God will laugh at me. I asked him....”
That was his way. He had not asked – there is nobody to ask – that was his
way. He would not hurt Vivekananda. He closed his eyes, he may have even
moved his lips to show Vivekananda that he was praying to God. And then he
opened his eyes and he said, ”God laughed at me and he said, ’Ramakrishna,
you are listening to these fools? You follow their advice? Are they your
disciples or are you their disciple? Who is who? You have eaten with this
throat for so many years – can’t you now eat and drink with the throats of
your disciples?’
” And Ramakrishna said, ”Vivekananda, his argument appeals to me. So stop
torturing yourself, suffering, because now that I have lost my throat, I
have to depend on your throats. Eat as much as you can – a little more than
usual, because a part of it has to go to me. Drink a little more than usual
because there will be my share, too. So eat, drink and rejoice, because God
has said, ’Ramakrishna, you can eat through your disciples’ bodies. Why
depend on this body? And this body is gone and rotten!’ ”
There is a certain invisible unity, an organic unity, between the Master and
the disciple.
2: Ramakrishna’s Paramhansa Leaving the Body and Sharda Ma
Osho:At the time of Ramakrishna’s death, it had become clear three days before
that Ramakrishna is taking leave now. So his wife Sharda became very worried
and upset. Ramakrishna asked her, ”Why do you cry? Because the one who is,
is not going to die. And did you love this body known as me or did you love
the one who is?” Sharda said, ”I loved the one who is.” Ramakrishna said,
”Then drop the worry. Then, when he who is not dies, do not break your
bangles.” There was only one widow in India who did not break her bangles
after her husband’s death Then Ramakrishna died.
Everybody else cried and wept but Sharda did not agree to break her bangles.
She remained the same as she always was. Everybody said, ”What are you
doing? Ramakrishna is dead.” She said, ”One who has died was not there in
the first place, and the one who was there, still is. These bangles are in
this memory. Sharda remained a bride even after Ramakrishna’s death. She
never said that Ramakrishna is dead and whenever somebody asked she would
say, ”That body had become worn and torn, he has only changed clothes.” In
reality, only clothes are changed, only garbs are changed.
Source:
Ramakrishna Paramhansa Dying from Cancer from
Osho Book "Walking
in Zen, Sitting in Zen”
Ramakrishna’s Paramhansa death and Sharda Ma
from Osho Book "Sun of Consciousness "
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