Sri Ramakrishna Invocation

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Swamiji speaks on the Sri Ramakrishna suprabhatam (invocation)

When you recite the suprabhatam your mind must feel each word. The suprabhatam means: 'O, may the morning be auspicious to You.' Just as in English we say, 'Good morning to you,' similarly this suprabhatam is a 'good morning' to God. You must say this prayer in such a way that the words are very clear in your mind. Lovingly let it be dipped in God's grace. Your mind must be dyed in the colour of God's praise.
These prayers are the ashtakam where we say, 'good morning' to our deities. It is a tradition as followed by the great Rishis [Sage-Seer-Saints] of the past. Thousands of years ago this was started in India. 'Good morning' in the eastern world was associated with the greatest and the highest virtues and glories of a particular deity.
Every householder on waking should say, 'Good morning,' to a deity. Otherwise they will wake up with a pawpaw [gloomy] face and go into the world with a bad vibration. That vibration does not bring harmony to the universe; neither does it bring harmony to you.
He is a good employer who first says to the servants, 'Good morning, how are you? How is your family?' You will find that the employee becomes so happy that he will go out of his way to please his employer.
Translated the suprabhatam means: Seeing the decline of dharma [righteousness] you hastened to be born in the prosperous village of Kamarpukur in the house of a pious Brahmin. O Lord Sri Ramakrishna I adore you this holy morning.
The Lord took birth because he found that his children were suffering and dharma was declining. He took an embodiment Himself. Sri Ramakrishna's father was that kind of a Brahmin who was full of truth – who was pious. [Continues] 

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