'When RamaKrishna Paramhans Slapped Rani Rashmoni….' Once Rani Rasmani (the founder of Dakshineswar temple) came to Dakshineswar and, after bathing in the Ganges, entered the shrine of the Divine Mother for japa and meditation. Sri Ramakrishna was also there at that time. Rani Rasmani had heard his devotional singing many times and was fond of it, so she asked him to sing. Sri Ramakrishna began singing, but all of a sudden he stopped and turned towards Rasmani, exclaiming: "What! Even here you think such thoughts!" As he said this, he slapped Rani Rasmani.
Immediately there was a commotion in the temple. Rashmani's women attendants began to scream, and the temple guards and officials rushed to the shrine to drag Sri Ramakrishna away. They hesitated, waiting only for the Rani's order. But Rasmani was sitting calmly in an introspective mood. Instead of listening to the song, she had been thinking about a lawsuit. She marvelled that Sri Ramakrishna had known what she had been thinking. When she became aware of her surroundings she noticed that people were standing around them, ready to punish Sri Ramakrishna who was sitting quietly and smiling. Rashmani then ordered: "The young priest is not to blame. Do not take any action against him."
Important points to be noted here, it is not the aged, matured legendary Kali Sadhak Ramakrishna Paramahans, but himself as a 'young priest' who slapped the Rani. The Rani surrendering to the legendary Ramakrishna for a slap in full public view is acceptable, but she realised the young priest's greatness even before he became that legend.
Maha Vidhya's — Operant Power. Rani Rashmoni here; given the historic space to place Kaalika in a temple which would in future be known as one of the most blessed consecrated spaces with the Shakti that is Kaalika. Yet, Rani Rashmoni herself did not place Kali there; because she was blessed by Maa Kamala, Maa Bhuvaneswari, she was given wealth, grandeur. Rightfully she was allowed to become a medium that allowed to place Kali, but she could not become the priestess.
This is the simple fact of Kali, the man who attains Kali, will never be able to exchange her for money, will never able to worship anything other than Kali. The Ability to earn a penny, I surrender to earn Kali. The Ability to please a superior, at work, for a political cause, to attain favours of some kind, I surrender to Kali, to attain her. The Ability to praise, please another human with an ulterior motive to elicit a favour, will not be possible in the path of a man who seeks to attain the Siddhi of Kali. This makes a simple Kali priest the most powerful being on the planet.
Ramakrishna was kind to Rani, he slapped her. If he had not, there would have been a very adverse reaction from the deity on the Rani. The Guru was kind to her.
Rani Rashmoni was a great philanthropist, yet she is known widely not for those efforts but for the simple fact that she made Dhakshineswar, where Kaalika sat for … sat for whom? For Rani? For her wealth? Kali sat for the simple priest, clad in simple cotton dhoti. Kali's first name is Smashan Kali, it is only Kali who can give one fame beyond the smashana, where one is not just 'remembered' but venerated, and invoked centuries beyond one's death.
The Rani gave Him a GarbaGriha, a place to still His madness for Kali, and he gave her eternal glory, for he simply could not be tasked with worshipping a boss, or a business to earn to make that GarbaGriha himself, he used that effort to worship Kali. Kali didnt want him to toil for It, she has her ways …
One will find the same pattern and much similarity in another great Kali sadhaka, Ramprasad Sen. Who, born into a lower middle class household was so full of love for Kali, he would one day up end up scribbling her name all over an accounting book of his employer, lost in her Leela. The employer on seeing this, instead of admonishing the sadhaka, falls on his feet and requests he leave home and be assured that he would get his monthly salary (25 rupees), every month and he would not ever have to work again for it. The employer called the scribblings, his greatest gift from Kali, on his simple mundane life.
So at the heights, a Kali sadhaka is a kept man, only there is just divine intimacy and divine madness.
Jai Maa AdyaMahaKali. BhairavaKaalikeNamosthute
Guruji Shri Praveen Radhakrishnan