Swamiji explains how the16 steps of worship were to God and only then, to earthly Indian kings.
Lovers of Hindu ritual worship and Indian royal history will enjoy this audio clip. In it, Swamiji talks about how the ancient Indian kings saw their duties as being first and foremost, subservience to the ultimate King. Being the king of the Universes – God. And only secondly their role in a divinely ordained position, which they were required to exercise with as little ego as possible.
Swamiji uses the sixteen steps of worship used in rituals, as a template to describe how the earthly king would ensure they were performed first for God, and only then, by personal attendants, for himself.
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Duration: 08:55
The original audio recordings of these posts were made by close Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa and Swami Shivapadananda devotee, Mother Radha. The audio editing and noise reduction of the original 1970s-onwards tapes, has been lovingly engineered, over many years, by her son and our dear gurubhai, Brother Tim. May Sri Ramakrishna and Swamiji bless them both.
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Context: As always, care should be taken to remember that what Swamiji was saying, may have been very specific to the needs of people with him at the time. Please bear this in mind.
Links to our Guruparampara (spiritual lineage) organisations, which will broaden your knowledge base: Ramakrishna Math and Mission and our alma maters, the Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa and the Sri Sarada Devi Ashram in Durban. The Ramakrishna Centre of Johannesburg is also active in Gauteng province in South Africa.
There are various publications [The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna etc.] which you can download at no charge, from the Ramakrishna Centre of SA website page, HERE.
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