RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

MARCH----1882

Place  :---Temple  of  Dakshineswar 

(Henceforth  Shri  Ramkrishna  will be  spoken  of  as

Thakur” when required  as  it is so  done in the  Gospel )

19 .  “Alas, he is not free, already married”!

Continence is an essential requirement for attaining God in the body. All animal passions are but obstructions to the way of God’s freeing and manifesting in the body

“The man who has renounced the pleasure enjoyed in the company of a wife, has really given up all the pleasures of the world”—Shri Ramkrishna .

Everything on the face of the earth takes place as God wills it . The man is fettered with a wife at the will of God . So in this case it appears that God’s grace is less. Had he been favoured by God there would have been no marriage at all for him .

20 . “Ah me ! He is not only married but has also got a child”.

 A son is born of me and it is reckoned as a second birth of my own body .

 “You, in another form, are your own son”—Shri Ramkrishna .

The full measure of your body has gone down at the birth of your child as he is come out from your body. It means a loss of potential power in you . So there will be very meager emanation of God in your body and you are not favored with all the knowledge of the sportive forms of God in you.

The body is required to be kept intact in an unsullied condition . Then there will be an emanation of God in the body in full measure . All the sportive forms of God will be seen . The mystery of life and death in connection with the world and everything else surrounding you will be solved . For instance, the world, you see, appears to be before your eyes. But really it is not so . You have seen God within you. Then you will come to see that this world in the God within you . Your knowledge of self-ego plus body is but a mirror and the world is reflected there. So you are seeing the world in the outside but it is exactly like a mirage—something not in existence but appears to be true and real.

21.  “Is she endowed with goodness (Vidya-sakti) or badness (Avidya-sakti)”.

Goodness is conscience, renunciation, of God etc.

                                          

Badness is to have a keen worldly attachment, to have more creature comforts, devoid of the sense of right and wrong .having no respect or regard for God etc .

God has manifested Himself in everybody in the form of life-force, and in some this life-force is tinged with goodness and in some again with badness .

Why there is such difference ?

It is predestination .

 What is predestination ?

It is very clearly exposed in the story of Prahlada in the Mahavarata, a mythology of India .

Prahlada was sent to school when he was but a mere child. He saw the first alphabet “K”and tears rolled down from his cheeks. (K is the first alphabet in the list of letters in India. Krishna, the name of God as described, starts with K). The alphabet K reminded Prahlada about Krishna. His love of God burst out seeing the simple letter K. Kiddy Prahlada was not aware anything of God. It did not matter with the child but tears came out spontaneously. The spontaneity signified predestination .

22 .  “   And you are blessed with knowledge”?

The man who has got knowledge of himself is called Jnani, who is he ?

The body must be in full-bloom-youth i.e. between 24 and 25 years of age .There will be no defect in the body. God in full measure will come out and accumulate in the cerebrum. God-the-Preceptor will point out and show God (Atma). Then succeeds various forms of God and they will annihilate time and space. Then comes the realization and consciousness from within that I am not body but I am God .

This state is attainment of knowledge and he who has attained this state is called a man of knowledge (Jnani). This is but the first stage of attaining knowledge as in full knowledge there remains no-ego-consciousness to give out “Not I, but Thou (God)”.

                                          

23.  “Yes, have you got faith in God with form or without form”?

 “God emanates from the body and is transformed into ‘no-ego-consciousness’ and again from “no-ego-consciousness’ comes God with form”—Shri Ramkrishna . (Nitya and Lila—from Lila to Nitya and Nitya to Lila) .

God with form is seen in the fourth sheath or the sixth plane . Here the devotee sees his God with form. You are a devotee of Jesus and if (God in you takes pity on you then He will come out from your body in the form of Jesus and you will see Him ; nay, you may even talk Him though not in all cases .

There is another form of higher realization of God with forms . Jesus you see before you but that Jesus will be transformed before your very eyes into Mary, and Mary again may change into Shri Ramkrishna and so on . It makes you conscious that there is one God but He appears in various forms .

God without form starts from seeing the Atma in the cerebrum till God, after various sportive forms, reaches and is transformed into ‘no-ego-consciousness’, and if God wills it then He may descend into divine consciousness only in give out—“Not, I, but Thou and Thou “.

24 .    “But cling to your own faith “.

If God makes one understand all about God then one understands what God is .

If God out of His own accord emanates and in the body and realization in full degree covers at every stage of transformation of the life-force to God then God is seen, understood and can be spoken of. Nobody knows who is God or what is God. If God makes Himself known to you then you are in a state to know .