RELIGION
AND REALIZATION
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 )
42) “There are four
classes of man . They are—(1) those from whose body God does not emanate. They
are called Baddhajiva (of fettered one) . (2) Those who have inkling for God
but cannot break up the fetters of the body and if sometime it is done , the
emanation is but very poor . They are called Mumukshujiva (or an as pirant for
liberation). (3) Those from whose body God emanates in full measure and gets Himself
separated from the body. In some cases it may happen in the life time and again
in some cases at the time of death . To get God separated from body in the life
time is a rare thing . They are called Muktajiva (or liberated one) . (4) Those
who have got God separated from their body with their birth are called
Nityajiva (or ever-free).
1) Baddhajiva is a
man belonging to the ordinary category. He is fittered with woman and gold .
“They camel chews and eats thorny plants . Blood trickles down its jaws . But
its thinks that it is the best life”—Sri Ramkrishna .
2) Mumukshujiva is
he who has got a taste of God’s emanation from the body but in fact the taste
is a meager one . Sometimes he forgets the taste and sometimes it awakens in
him .
3) Muktajiva are of
two kinds---
(a) God emanates from
the body in full measure . He is shown by God-the Preceptor in the cerebrum and
He is seen by the seer . This is but the supreme liberation .
(b) There is also
another class of liberation . The God comes out from your body in your form .
With two hands uplifted . He dances with jot and says, “I am free! I am free!”
It happens before the very eyes of the seer and he witnesses the whole episode
. “God with form will stand before eyes and speak out, then it is correct and
prefect and you will be rest assured”—Sri Ramkrishna .
4)
Nityajiva—Nityajiva is he in whose body God emanates and assumes the
form of God-the Preceptor, chooses the body as His field of sportive forms and
expresses in various manifestations. These Nityajivas in their form live forever
and God when required takes the form of a Nityajiva and appears before a
devotee .
Moses is seen by
devotees even now though some 3500 years have rolled by. Buddha though born
2500 years ago is seen. Jesus of 2000 years old is seen. Mohammed though born
1500 years ago is still seen. Sankar, Sri Chaitanya and now a days, Sri Ramkrishna
are also seen.
How does it occur
?
God is in the
body. The whole Universe is in God. The Universe is partitioned into three
chambers of time—Past, Present and Future. God-the Preceptor appears in the
form which had been in the past and gives His grace to the devotee. A Jew will
get Moses as his God-the Preceptor, a Buddhist will get Buddha, Jesus for a
Christian and so on . In course of time if God is so disposed then He will make
the seer understand that all these forms of Moses, Buddha and Jesus are but separate
forms of God in the body.
MARCH—1882
Place—Temple of
Dakshineswar
43) “Once faith is
gained, then everything is gained”.
Faith
means God’s emanation from the body and to witness and realise . His sportive
forms, otherwise no real faith can grow. Realizations are of two kinds—a
complete one and the other by part. By part, it means to see God with form or
to see God’s light and in some cases it means both, God with form as well as
God’s light . The complete realization is to see God as shown by God-the-Preceptor.
Thakur said to Naren, the junior, “If you do not see God, then how can real
love for God grow in you”?
44) “You must
have heard the tremendous power as exercised and evinced by faith . The Purana
(Hindu Mythology) says that Ramachandra, though he was God Himself, required a
bridge to be built to cross over the sea to Ceylon (SriLanka), Hanumana (an
ideal devotee) had faith in Rama’s name . By dint of his faith, in one jump he
crossed the sea and landed on the other side. No bridge was required for him”.
To build a bridge—means to go step by step in the process of
transformation .
Ramachabdra, though he was an
incarnation of God, went step by step in the process of transformation
of becoming God. Hanumana was a
real devotee . He saw Ramachandra, the embodiment of God. To see an incarnation
of God is equivalent to get oneself transformed into in spirit . Hanumana
trusting in the name of Ramachandra crossed the sea in one jump as he saw God .
He had not go by steps . He was perfectly aware that God and God’s name are one
and the same . “Utter the name of God and along with the utterances, the
life-power will be transformed into God . Then you have attained the matured
power of transformation”—Shri Ramkrishna . Life power being transformed will
reach the cerebrum in a jump like a monkey . Hanumana saw God sohe had such
real faith in the name of God .
Here in the simile of Ramachandra and Hanumana, a difference
has been set out between the transformation of life power into God as happens
in case of an incarnation of God and a true devotee The incarnation of God is
acquainted with every nook and corner of the process of transformation whereas
a devotee gets the thing all on a sudden. The former is a full- fledged one and
the later is the result only .
45) “Vibhishana
wrote the name of Rama on a leaf and tied it in a man’s wearing cloth as the
man was about to cross the sea . Vibhishana said to him, “Don’t be afraid .
Have faith and walk over the sea . But mind that as soon as you will lose your
faith, you will be drowned,” The man went on easily over the sea . On his way a
keen desire burst out in him to see what was tied in the corner of his cloth . He drew out the leaf and found only the name
of Rama written thereon . He thought—“Well, the name Rama only ?” No sooner had
doubt crept into his mind than he sank in the water”.
“If God out of sheer mercy frees Himself from the body, then
there is emanation and liberation”—Shri Ramkrishna .
Rama was God . Vibhishana was not God. He
was a true devotee . He wanted to show mercy so
that the sea of life
and reach the cerebrum. But it could not be . Only God and God alone can show
such mercy; then the man can easily
walk over the sea of life and reach the other coast .
46). “If a man with faith in God commits the
mast heinous sin such as killing a cow , abrahmin, or
woman—even yet his faith will save him . Let him pray and
say,” O Lord ! such an action will not be repeated by me’, and then he need not
be afraid of losing himself.”
“God excuses a man but once’—Shri Ramkrishna .
To commit a sin—means to hurt himself. God is in you . With
hurts God retires in inner parts . He does not emanate . The evil of sin comes
over your body and your body becomes stiff and does not permit emanation .It is
the highest punishment . It foils the sole purpose of life .
47) “A naughty
boy assumes a very gentle pose while he sits by his father . But he is quite
different person when he plays with others in the market .”
This was spoken about Swami Vivekananda .
A naughty boy—means a body where God’s power will be
manifested in a greater degree .
To sit by his father—means to be in meditation . The mind is
in the seventh plane and everything is quite i.e.in Samadhi .
To play with others in the market—It was the forecast Thakur
predicted about Swami Vevekananda, the most prominent figure in the Parliament
of Religions in Chicago .
