Q    Baba, You have quoted in one of your speeches that Ramakrishna Paramahamsa had cried to Kàli ma two times: once for Her darshan and the second time to grant him four noble disciples.  What kind of disciple did Ramakrishna Paramahamsa think of when he cried to Goddess Kàli the second time?

The first time Ramakrishna wept, it was for Kàli’s Darshan. Once he attained The Darshan, and after his thoughts synchronized on Kàli’s Lotus Feet, he would have sought mellowed disciples. And his tears testify that none of the disciples who sought him matched his wavelength.  

He was waiting for the cream of disciples. That is the implied meaning. He was not satisfied with the thronging crowd of disciples. He was beseeching Kàli to send him the right disciple who was evolved or rather fit enough to be enlightened. 

Ramakrishna, being a self-realized soul, would have found it difficult to tolerate persons seeking material pleasures. He would have pleaded with Kàli for a spiritual seeker, someone seeking the Permanent Bliss of the Lord’s Feet rather than the illusory pleasures of the transient world.

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