An Untitled Poem on Shri Ramakrishna

AN UNTITLED POEM ON SHRI RAMAKRISHNA

(Complete Works (Bengali edition), VI, p. 256.)

He who was praised by the Brâhmanas, those knowers of the Vedas who made the

sky reverberate with the sacred sounds of the sacrifice and caused the

darkness of delusion to vanish through well-performed rituals and the

knowledge known as Vedanta — he whose greatness was sung in the sweet chants

of the Sâma-Veda etc., with voices thundering like clouds (In Indian

mythology clouds can cause both thunder and lightning.) — to that Shri

Ramakrishna, I offer my eternal worship.

He who was praised by the Brâhmanas, those knowers of the Vedas who made the

sky reverberate with the sacred sounds of the sacrifice and caused the

darkness of delusion to vanish through well-performed rituals and the

knowledge known as Vedanta — he whose greatness was sung in the sweet chants

of the Sâma-Veda etc., with voices thundering like clouds (In Indian

mythology clouds can cause both thunder and lightning.) — to that Shri

Ramakrishna, I offer my eternal worship.