India! Her Glorious Spiritual Heritage!!

Jai Ma Kali    Sadhak Ramprasad Sen was a great devotee of Kali Ma in 18th century Bengal. He underwent intense spiritual practices and had the vision of the Divine Mother. He composed many songs in praise of the Mother. He became well known for his devotional songs on which are quite popular to this day. His literary works include Vidyasundar, Kali-kirtana, Krishna-kirtana and Shaktigiti. Ramprasad was born in Halisahar, a village on the banks of the Ganges about 35 miles north of Kolkata, into a Tantric Baidya-Brahmin family around the year 1718 or 1723. He was sent to a Sanskrit tol (school) where he learned Sanskrit grammar, literature, Persian, and Hindi. As a youth, he had a talent for poetry and learning new languages. Ramprasad showed no interest in practical pursuits. As he grew up, his spiritual inclinations caused a great deal of anxiety to his parents. Believing that marriage would make Ramprasad more responsible, his parents got him married w...

Om Namo Bhagawate Sri Ramakrishnaya Mother India was undergoing an extremely depressing phase during the middle of the 19th century. She was severely strained under more than 1,000 years of foreign invasions. Every possible attempt was made by the Mughal, British and many other foreign rulers to somehow destroy the great religion of the ancient land. Hinduism was crumbling and had got reduced to a mass of superstitions. The great religion of the Rishis was in real danger of extinction, as had happened with other ancient cultures all over the world. The few reformers who tried to set things right were made to believe that Hinduism itself was to be blamed for all the ills plaguing the society. They started opposing various Hindu practices, particularly the concept of various Gods, and of praying to God with form. They were especially against idol worship. In this way they were inadvertently playing into the hands of the marauding conquerors. At this critical junction in the hi...