Kathamrita Volume II - Swami Vivekananda

efers to Purna)M. (hesitatingly) — Sir, I will send word tohim right now.Sri Ramakrishna (eagerly) — The end (of thecord) is here.Does Thakur mean that Purna is the last of hisintimate disciples? There is almost no one afterhim.Chapter IIHis earlier story – Sri Ramakrishna’s mahabhava –Brahmani’s service to himAddressing Girish, M. and the others, Thakurdescribes his own experience of mahabhava.Sri Ramakrishna (to the devotees) — The joythat one feels after that experience equals thepain of separation before it. Mahabhava – thatis, divine ecstasy – disturbs the body and themind violently. It is like a big elephant pushingits way into a straw cottage. The whole house isshaken. It may even fall to pieces.“The burning fire that one feels when one isseparated from God is not ordinary. WhenRupa and Sanatana [12] sat under a tree in thatstate, the leaves of the tree became scorched. Ilay unconscious for three days in that state. Icould not move. I lay in one spot. When