Dear people responsible for the website,
in the article https://www.jiva.org/is-it-fanatical-to-believe-in-bhaktis-superiority/ , the author of the question makes a statement about the teaching of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, characterizing that the saint taught that there would be something superior to bhakti. In fact, Sri Ramakrishna was emphatic that devotion was all that mattered. What he said is that there would be more or less mature devotions, and that the more sectarian bhakta would be of a lower degree than the one who would be able to perceive greater nuances in the meaning of devotion. It is true that the Ramakrishna Order and Mission, guided by the ideal of Swami Vivekananda, teaches a mixture of paths and in this puts bhakti on an equal footing with jnana, karma and raja yoga, but Sri Ramakrisna did not teach this. He taught the primacy of bhakti, and that therefore it would not even be possible to have real jnana, karma or raja without bhakti.
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