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The Enigma Of The Emory Mace
On the tenth floor of the Woodruff Library, tucked away in a corner of the Special Collections department, the Emory mace lies enshrined in a glass case, quietly awaiting Commencement day–its next opportunity to shine. ...
* Its bearer is traditionally the bedel of the University, a position held by the president of the Student Government Association... The bedel carries the mace in the crook of his or her arm and immediately precedes University President.
* Shaped like a teardrop, at its apex the mace bears a relief rendering in gold of a skeleton... In the teardrop is a golden sphere divided into eight segments... Atop the sphere is a simple cross... within the circular base is the seal of the University.
* The academic mace is a direct descendant of medieval staffs: the regal scepter and the battle-mace.
* For academic institutions, the mace is a symbol of authority and autonomy from outside entities, both political and religious.The presence of the mace on the mace table at Commencement is a good reminder of the long history of universities in the West. The mace is sort of like a wedding ring in the old language of the sacraments–‘an outward sign of an inward and invisible grace.’ Its descent from an ancestor that could be used as a weapon makes it now like a sword beaten into a plowshare. I never look at it without being reminded of those scholars who, nearly a thousand years ago, gathered in Paris and Bologna and Oxford to create intellectual order out of the riot of medieval life.
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Narendra Meets Sri Ramakrishna
In the year 1881 Narendra met Sri Ramakrishna for the first time. As it happened, Sri Ramakrishna had gone to Calcutta to one of his devotee's house. It was near Narendra's. ... Narendra ... treated the audience, especially Sri Ramakrishna, to many devotional songs. Sri Ramakrishna was highly impressed and invited young Narendra to Dakshineswar. Thus ended the first meeting between Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda ...
Three Friends ... Ram ... Surendra ... And Narendra ... Went To Dakshineswar.
Sri Ramakrishna asked him to sing a song. Narendra began to sing one of the most touching songs in Bengali. The first lines went like this: 'O mind, come; let us go home. Why do you travel in the foreign land of the world in a foreigner's garb?' Sri Ramakrishna was visibly moved by the sincerity and quality of Narendra's singing. Tears welled up in the eyes of Sri Ramakrishna, and he thus lovingly got acquainted with Narendra. Sri Ramakrishna treated him with utmost love and familiarity, as if they knew each other intimately and were meeting not as strangers but as close old friends.
Later Sri Ramakrishna got up and said, "O Narayana, why did you take such long to come here? I have been restlessly waiting for you since long." Thus saying, he escorted Narendra to inner room and fed him sweets and other eatables with his own hands. Naturally Swami Vivekananda was puzzled to receive this kind of treatment; this was not a natural reaction between two strangers.
Commenting about his first visit to Dakshineswar later, Narendra said, "It was most unusual kind of meeting. I could not understand the peculiar behaviour of that 'mad, monomaniac Brahmin'. I was reluctant to visit him again, but his pure love, simplicity, genuine renunciation and love for God pulled me again and again to him, despite protests of logic and reason."
THAT WAS "THE MASTER OF THE MOMENT" ... As Seen By A Great Disiciple!
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