Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dear Mother...
...Brahman, Ramakrishna knew the formalities of Hindu worship. Hinduism asks its devotees to look on God as the ideal father, the ideal mother, the ideal husband, the ideal son, or the ideal friend. To the initiate, each name ultimately leads to the Nameless, the form to the Formless, the word to the Silence. The gods gradually merge in the one God. But until that realization is achieved - and it may take a million reincarnations - a Hindu devotee cannot dissociate human factors from his worship. Therefore Hindu deities must be bathed, clothed, decked with ornaments. They must...
These rites Ramakrishna himself practiced as a priest. In 1856 he became a priest of Kali, Hinduism's Divine Mother, in a vast new temple at Dakshineswar, on the Ganges, just north of Calcutta. The temple and its 20 acres of gardens had been built by a wealthy fourth-caste widow named Rani Rasmani, and Ramakrishna showed his disregard for caste by serving as priest there. He had no false respect for his patron. One day as Rani Rasmani was listening to his singing in the temple, the young priest abruptly turned and slapped her. He said that while...
...bottles of the elderberry arsonic brew, left over from last fall's party for the cast of "Arsenic and Old Lace," will be available in the library for the various and sundry editors of Mother Advocate's rivals...
From the same punchbowl that has refreshed visiting Cambridge celebrities from Anna Held to Tallulah Bankhead, the editors of Mother Advocate will serve ale to Somerset Maugham, famous English novelist, whose latest contribution to the movies. "The Moon and Sixpence," had its Boston premier last evening...