Ramakrishna's samādhi was an ecstasy-filled trance-like state that Indian mystic Ramakrishna used to undergo. During his trances, Ramakrishna reportedly...

Vivekananda revised and mythologised Ramakrishna's image after Ramakrishna's death. McDaniel notes that the Ramakrishna Mission is biased towards Advaita...

Samādhi (Pali and Sanskrit: समाधि), in the Indian religions, is a state of meditative consciousness. In many such traditions, the cultivation of samādhi...

Ramakrishna, writes that Nikhilananda's translation are "accurate and reliable efforts...it should be possible to get as close to Sri Ramakrishna's original...

spiritual journey. Remarkably, immediately after Mathur’s death, Sri Ramakrishna’s samadhi was broken, and he commented: "শ্রীশ্রীজগদম্বার সখীগণ মথুরকে সাদরে...

his life, Ramakrishna's samādhi periods occurred almost daily. Rolland described the trances and mystical states experienced by Ramakrishna and other...

Kamarpukur. There, Ramakrishna imparted to Sarada instructions on meditation and spiritual life. Ramakrishna's frequent bhava samadhi (ecstasy) and unorthodox...

devotional ecstasy. Bhava samadhi has been experienced by notable figures in Indian spiritual history, including Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and some of...

hypnotized once again by Ramakrishna. Ramakrishna took him to the adjacent garden and touched him. Narendra failed to resist Ramakrishna's exalted spiritual...

of 18, he met Ramakrishna and became his devoted disciple, and later took up the vows of a sannyasin (renunciate). Following Ramakrishna’s death, Vivekananda...

have acknowledged Ramakrishna and Vivekananda's contribution to Indian Nationalism. This is particularly evident in Ramakrishna’s development of the...

founded on 29 January 1938 as an outcome of the commemoration of Sri Ramakrishna's Birth Centenary Celebrations, the institute has grown over the years...

and profound regard for them. Devotees believe that Ramakrishna's realisation of nirvikalpa samadhi also led him to an understanding of the two sides of...

Adbhutananda was the first monastic disciple to come to Ramakrishna. While most of Ramakrishna's direct disciples came from the Bengali intelligentsia,...

analyzing Sri Ramakrishna's teachings through five interpretive principles, Maharaj arrives at six central tenets of Sri Ramakrishna’s Vijñāna Vedanta...

Both Sri Ramakrishna's wife, Holy Mother Sarada Devi, and Swami Vivekananda later testified to Mahendranath's faithfulness to Sri Ramakrishna's words. The...

the trances became common, and by the final years of his life, Ramakrishna's samādhi periods occurred almost daily. Early on, these experiences have...

of thirteen. M met Ramakrishna in 1882. Attracted by Ramakrishna's teachings, M would maintain a stenographic record of Ramakrishna's conversations and...

philosophical interpretation of Ramakrishna's teachings with Oxford University Press. Maharaj argues that "Ramakrishna's spiritual standpoint of vijnana...

Shankara and the other to Goddess Saradamba, the main deity of Sringeri. The samadhi (place of death) of Shankara's mother is also located here. A small shrine...

experience Nirvikalpa Samadhi (the highest stage of meditation) and so requested Ramakrishna to help him to attain that state. But Ramakrishna wanted young Narendra...

contemplation. Dhyana is taken up in Yoga practices, and is a means to samadhi and self-knowledge. The various concepts of dhyana and its practice originated...

on hearing about Ramakrishna's illness and joined Narendra and a group of young devotees to nurse him. When he started the Ramakrishna Mission, Vivekananda...

The Hymn of Samadhi or A Hymn of Samadhi was a song written by Swami Vivekananda. The song was originally written in Bengali as Nahi surjo, nahi jyoti...

follows: Book 1, Samadhi Pada, contains 51 sutras. The Yogabhashya states that 'yoga' in the Yoga Sutras has the meaning of 'samadhi'. Samadhi is a state of...

forms, are but secondary details. Vivekananda's emphasis on nirvikalpa samadhi was preceded by medieval yogic influences on Advaita Vedanta. In line with...

year 1938 and also contains the Samadhi of the great Saint and youth icon along with that of Sarada Devi and Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. Kolkata Suburban Railway...

that Narayan was one of the Five Perfect Masters of his time. Narayan's samadhi (tomb shrine) is in Bangalore, India. From 1942 onward, he was seen having...

locality. Samadhis (shrines) of Saints: Alandi, Samadhi of Dnyaneshwar:Mantralayam, Samadhi Mandir of Sri Sai Baba of Shirdi at Shirdi ,samadhi of Raghavendra...

to then Malaya and performed austerities and eventually went into Jeeva Samadhi. Jeganatha Swamigal, a disciple of Ramalinga Adigal, was the foremost among...