FOREWORD
Sree
Sree Bhagaban Ramkrishna Devah’s
perennial
sayings and their tangible forms
as
seen in the process of Yoga ¾
transformation
of the lower-self
to
the Supreme-Self or Bliss.
By
Diamond (Manik, the name of the diamond)
picked up in the street
Manik is the most precious
diamond. It is so imagined in India. It grows on the head of a cobra – the most
venomous of snakes. Cobra is the insignia by which
Kundalini is depicted. Kundalini is the essence of life-power.
She takes the form of Cobra in the back-bone of the body in the process of Yoga – the process of transformation of
the self into God. She is so seen by Sree Ramkrishna Devah. God, the most
precious diamond (Manik), comes out
from Kundalini and it means God in
the body.
Manik can be had through sheer
mercy of God and it is not a purchasable commodity.
Manik knows no value.
Satchidananda (God) does not grow in the
body by Sadhan (Self-exertion).
By the grace of Satchidananda,
‘Satchidananda’ is seen in the body and sometimes, in form, outside.
God in the body comes out spontaneously (Bidvat) and not by exertion (Bibidisha).
“If God frees Himself from the body out of sheer
mercy, then and then alone, there is freedom from the bondage of the body”.
“Well, am I committing any offence by disclosing all
these secret divine realizations of mine own?”
¾ Sree Ramkrishna.
“No, there cannot be any harm. I have spoken out all these
secrets simply to have the faith of the human race grown in them”.
¾ Sree Ramkrishna.
Some say, to give out one’s own divine realization is a
profanation.
The five volumes of Kathamrita, the conversation of Sree Ramkrishna, known as the
“Gospel of Sree Ramkrishna”, contain the expressions and manifestations of the
divinity in his own body as seen by him.
GOD IS IN THE BODY.
By sheer mercy He expresses Himself in the human body.
This manifestation of God in the body is in various
stages called Lila or God’s sport.
In other words, it establishes the Truth in the man
or the spontaneous manifestation of God in the body.
The Truth manifests in a man in order to be given
out.
This publicity comes after attainment of Chaprash, the badge of authority, or Adesh, precept, or both in some cases.
Chaprash, the badge of authority, is
a written document.
God, in a human form, writes it and shows it.
Precepts are of two kinds :¾
1. God takes a human form and
speaks.
2. Formless God speaks in the
brain.
There are two other modes of God’s speakings to a
man:¾
1) through a
kiddy ; and
2) sometimes
through a mad man.
The Atma,
God, emanated in and from the body of Sree Ramkrishna.
To relate the processes and stages of the emanation and
manifestations of the divinity in man is called Bhagabat or religious lore.
He spoke out Bhagabat
– all these modes, processes and manifestations of the divinity in him.
No profanation is committed by giving publicity to
this Bhagabat. it has been so spoken
by Sree Ramkrishna. On the contrary, it makes the dormant faith in a man spring
up into life.
To conceal the Truth from others is a fetter in itself and
belongs to the group of eight fetters known as Astapash.
The revelation of the Truth or the emanation of God in the
human body does not come into being to be kept in concealment.
If God desires, then he manifests Himself in a man
in ‘Supreme Knowledge’, the knowledge of summum bonum, Brahmajnan.
His desire expresses in the human body in the following
stages :
1) Satchidananda Guru or God-the-Preceptor. Satchidananda or God appears in the form
of an unknown human being. It is not an ordinary flesh-and-blood body, but a
human form made of God’s light. He speaks. He teaches. At this stage you do not
know the A.B.C. of the happenings in you. You are only a seer.
I)
Then follow the emanation, accumulation, and manifestation of the Atma, God, in the 7th plane
or within the brain ; and Satchidananda
Guru or God-the-Preceptor shown Him to you and he himself enters into the Atma and vanishes, making you understand
that your God-the-Preceptor is Atma.
II)
The innumerable manifestations of God within you in different stages.
III)
Then the offering of the badge of authority Chaprash to the seer.
IV)
Publicity of all the processes and stages of God’s manifestations
within the seer follows.
“Those, who after ‘attaining the Supreme Knowledge (Brahmajnan) do still worship God with
form, live with love of God (Bhakti)
for the benefit of the human race to initiate others into the cult of love to
God. As if a pitcher is filled
with water, but the water is now poured down into
other pitchers”.
“The ways and processes by which they have seen God
and attained Him in the body, are spoken out to making. It showers a world of
benefit on them”.
All these are the sayings of Sree Ramkrishna and as
such to give out the ways and processes of seeing and attaining God, does not
incur any profanation.
“In some there is spontaneous emanation of God
from the body, and they are called Nityasiddha”.
¾ Sree Ramkrishna.
“Those who have attained God in them by
self-exertion, such as continuous prayer and self discipline such as fasting
etc, are called Sadhanasiddha”.
¾ Sree Ramkrishna.
“There is another class of people who have attained
God through sheer grace of God and they are called Kripasiddha. It is exactly like carrying light into a closed room
which has been kept in darkness of thousand years”.
¾ Sree Ramkrishna.
“Still more, there are some who, all on a sudden,
get God in them and they are called Hathat-Siddha.
It is exactly like a rich man’s liking for a poor man’s son. The rich man
marries his daughter to the poor man’s son and along with it, makes a gift of a
house, furniture, car, servants and maids”.
¾ Sree Ramkrishna.
“Furthermore, there are some who attain God in them
in course of dreams and they are called Swapna-Siddha”.
¾ Sree Ramkrishna.
