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XI
(Diterjemahkan dari bahasa Bengali)
(Dari Catatan Harian Seorang Murid)
(Murid tersebut adalah Sharatchandra Chakravarty, yang menerbitkan catatannya dalam sebuah buku Bengali, Swami-Shishya-Samvada, dalam dua bagian. Seri "Percakapan dan Dialog" yang ada saat ini adalah terjemahan yang direvisi dari buku tersebut. Lima dialog dari seri ini telah dimuat dalam Karya Lengkap, Volume 5)
[Tempat: Rumah almarhum Babu Navagopal Ghosh, Ramakrishnapur, Howrah, 6 Februari 1898.]
Hari ini festival pemasangan arca Sri Ramakrishna akan berlangsung di kediaman Babu Navagopal Ghosh di Ramakrishnapur, Howrah. Para Sannyasin dari Math dan para bhakta (pengabdi) grhasta dari Sri Ramakrishna semuanya telah diundang ke sana.
Swamiji beserta rombongannya tiba di ghat mandi di Ramakrishnapur. Ia mengenakan pakaian paling sederhana berwarna oker dengan sorban di kepalanya dan bertelanjang kaki. Di kedua sisi jalan berdirilah orang banyak yang ingin melihatnya. Swamiji mulai menyanyikan Himne Kelahiran yang terkenal untuk Sri Ramakrishna — "Siapakah Engkau yang berbaring di pangkuan seorang ibu Brahmin yang miskin", dan seterusnya, serta memimpin sebuah prosesi, sambil memainkan Khol sendiri. (Sejenis gendang India yang memanjang dan menyempit di kedua ujungnya.) Semua bhakta yang hadir di sana mengikuti sambil menyanyikan korus.
Tak lama setelah prosesi tiba di tujuannya, Swamiji naik ke lantai atas untuk melihat kapel. Lantai kapel dilapisi marmer. Di tengah-tengahnya terdapat singgasana dan di atasnya ditempatkan arca porselen Sri Ramakrishna. Penataan segala perlengkapannya sangat sempurna dan Swamiji sangat senang melihat hal ini.
Istri Navagopal Babu bersujud di hadapan Swamiji bersama anggota keluarga perempuan lainnya dan kemudian mulai mengipasi beliau. Mendengar Swamiji memuji setiap tatanan yang ada, ia berbicara kepada beliau dan berkata, "Apakah yang kami miliki untuk layak mendapat kehormatan memuja Thakur (Sang Guru, Tuhan)? — Rumah yang sederhana dan sarana yang terbatas! Tolong berkatilah kami dengan memasang beliau di sini atas kebaikan hati Anda sendiri!"
Menanggapi hal ini, Swamiji dengan jenaka berkata, "Thakur Anda tidak pernah dalam empat belas generasi memiliki rumah berlantai marmer seperti ini untuk ditinggali! Beliau lahir di pondok beratap jerami yang pedesaan itu dan menjalani hari-harinya dengan sarana yang sederhana. Dan jika beliau tidak tinggal di sini dengan pelayanan yang begitu baik, di mana lagi beliau harus tinggal?" Kata-kata Swamiji membuat semua orang tertawa.
Kini, dengan tubuhnya yang telah diolesi abu dan menempati kedudukan sang pendeta, Swamiji sendiri memimpin upacara ibadah, dengan Swami Prakashananda sebagai asistennya. Setelah ibadah selesai, Swamiji sementara masih berada di ruang ibadah secara spontan menggubah Mantra untuk bersujud di hadapan Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna ini:
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— "Aku bersujud kepada Ramakrishna, yang menegakkan agama, yang dalam dirinya mewujudkan realitas semua agama dan dengan demikian menjadi yang terdepan di antara para Inkarnasi Ilahi."
Semua bersujud di hadapan Sri Ramakrishna dengan Mantra ini. Pada malam harinya Swamiji kembali ke Baghbazar.
English
XI
(Translated from Bengali)
(From the Diary of a Disciple)
(The disciple is Sharatchandra Chakravarty, who published his records in a Bengali book, Swami-Shishya-Samvâda, in two parts. The present series of "Conversations and Dialogues" is a revised translation from this book. Five dialogues of this series have already appeared in the Complete Works,Volume 5)
[Place: The house of the late Babu Navagopal Ghosh, Ramakrishnapur, Howrah, 6th February, 1898.]
Today the festival of installing the image of Shri Ramakrishna was to come off at the residence of Babu Navagopal Ghosh of Ramakrishnapur, Howrah. The Sannyasins of the Math and the householder devotees of Shri Ramakrishna had all been invited there.
Swamiji with his party reached the bathing ghat at Ramakrishnapur. He was dressed in the simplest garb of ochre with turban on his head and was barefooted On both sides of the road were standing multitudes of people to see him. Swamiji commenced singing the famous Nativity Hymn on Shri Ramakrishna — "Who art Thou laid on the lap of a poor Brahmin mother", etc., and headed a procession, himself playing on the Khol. (A kind of Indian drum elongated and narrows at both ends.) All the devotees assembled there followed, joining in the; chorus.
Shortly after the procession reached its destination, Swamiji went upstairs to see the chapel. The chapel was floored with marble. In the centre was the throne and upon it was the porcelain image of Shri Ramakrishna. The arrangement of materials was perfect and Swamiji was much pleased to see this.
The wife of Navagopal Babu prostrated herself before Swamiji with the other female members of the house and then took to fanning him. Hearing Swamiji speaking highly of every arrangement, she addressed him and said, "What have we got to entitle us to the privilege of worshipping Thâkur (the Master, Lord)? — A poor home and poor means! Do bless us please by installing him here out of your own kindness!
In reply to this, Swamiji jocosely said, "Your Thakur never had in his fourteen generations such a marble floored house to live in! He had his birth in that rural thatched cottage and lived his days on indifferent means. And if he does not live here so excellently served, where else should he live?" Swamiji's words made everybody laugh out.
Now, with his body rubbed with ashes and gracing the seat of the priest, Swamiji himself conducted the worship, with Swami Prakashananda to assist him. After the worship was over, Swamiji while still in the worship-room composed extempore this Mantra for prostration before Bhagavan Shri Ramakrishna:
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— "I bow down to Ramakrishna, who established the religion, embodying in himself the reality of all religions and being thus the foremost of divine Incarnations."
All prostrated before Shri Ramakrishna with this Mantra. In the evening Swamiji returned to Baghbazar.
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