What is your belief system? or in other words your faith position or to ask in the usual way your religious subscription?
May be I can write a long essay in reply. But I would like to give an one word answer. - Sri Ramakrishna.
That means you believe that he is God and you subscribe to worship him.
May be if you want to carry away that opinion by yourself, I don't have any objection. But if you care to understand how I understand my position, I can explain it, nuancing on some points.
Yea sure. But don't elaborate too much. Don't mistake me.
Yea nops. I understand. To think of Sri Ramakrishna as one's spiritual answer involves four positional statements.
Four? so precise?
Yea. First to come to an understanding in life that desire is in not a supreme, deciding factor. What is good takes precedence over what is attractive. Of course no condemnation of desire as such. But one's position of understanding never takes into account the desire as any deciding or motivating factor, not withstanding appreciating the aesthetics of desire.
Second, trying to choose always the best, the good, the great over what is bad or peevish. Being able to distinguish between good and bad sides of things, good and bad aspects and features.
Third, to go in passionately for knowing more and more and never being snobbish about knowledge.
Fourth, to develop more and more in loving, compassion, sympathy meaningfully.
What about God worship?
Yea God-worship in any form, in any culture which promotes these four positions is aesthetic and joyful practice of life perception. If not, it is not relevant. This is what Sri Ramakrishna means to me spiritually. I think this is what Swami Vivekananda felt about his master.
Srirangam Mohanarangan
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