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 )
48) “In the Vedas
it is spoken of the bird Homa (a species of bird not known now). It lives high
up in the sky and her eggs are laid there. The egg starts falling down and the
downward fall continues for many days . It hatches as it goes down and the
chick comes out and continues falling . Its eyes open and wings grow in the
course of falling down . With the opening of the eyes, it comes to know that
the fall on touching the earth will dash it to pieces . Then it shoots up high
in the sky towards the mother bird”.
It is an allusion of God-the-Preceptor . The mother bird
Homa is God, the absolute . The chick is God-the-Preceptor and He comes down
and appears within the body . Then he shoots up high, as otherwise He may be
encased in the body . In the course of shooting up, the sportive forms of God
are seen as God-the-Preceptor is God, the Absolute, nut with form .
49) “He (Thakur)
became absent-minded in the course of hearing”.
To avoid hearing of any mundane affair, the mind of Thakur
shut up in the sixth plane . It was spontaneous .
50) “It is called
Samadhi.”
Samadhi means transformation of life-power to God .
There are three stages of this transformation—
1) To see God in
the seventh plane.
2) To be
transformed into God—‘I am He’.
3) To be eliminated
in the Absolute, or in other words, to lose the sense of ego-existence—Sthitha
Samadhi .
The Buddhist in their list have got 135 kinds of
transformations (Samadhi). It is as if to measure God with a measuring tape .
Every time this transformation reveal a new character . An ordinary man is not
blessed with this kind of realization . Only the Nityasiddha, Iswarkati,
Avarats (vide Foreword—Page26) are favoured with realizations like this which
come to pass every now and then .
The transformation as experienced in meditation is of lower
category . This transformation has been divided into four classes by Thakur :
1) Unmana—to
collect the mind and to have it fixed at the meeting point of the two eye brows
. The mind here looks like the point of a needle made of God’s light .
2) Chetan—the point
of the needle penetrates into the cerebrum and God’s light flashes in the in
side from neck to head . The ego-consciousness remains in this part of the body
only and not in the lower portion .
3) Jara—It is to
collect and transform the life-power to a point only . The point remains
bearing the sense of the point only . Its location is at the end of the seventh
plane and it is to be reckoned as a geometrical point .
4) Sthitha—It is
entire elimination of ego-existence and nothing can be said of it .
51) “ A light spasm
came over the
body of Shri
Ramkrishna”.
This light spasm (Siharan) is one of the eight insignia as
manifested and seen in the body when life-power within undergoes transformation
. In fact life-power makes her way in the cerebrum, touches the cerebrum and
tries to flash into God’s light . She does not stop there but comes back and
again goes back to the cerebrum . It is called her dance of joy .
52) . “All
through and over
his body hairs
stood on end”.
Standing of hair on end signifies manifestation of God in
the body . A change is taking place within the body and the expression of
changes appears on the body . It is also one of the signs belonging to the
group of eight outwards signs of inward transformations (Asta Sattvik
Lakshman).
53). “Tears of
joy rolled down
the cheeks”.
It signifies that transformation is taking place within the
body . Life-power is on way to the cerebrum . It acts within, and as an insignia
of action tears come down .
54) “As if,
from time to time
he is seeing
something in him
and smiling “.
No, he not smiling at all . When life-power enters the
cerebrum the cheeks heave and the lips are parted . To an ordinary man it will
appear like a smile .
When God separates from the body some expressions bearing
the marks of separation come over the body . One of them is light parting of
the lips with slight trembling as if it is a smile . In fact, it is not a smile
but mark of separation of God from the body (Paramhansa condition) .
55) . “ Is he
seeing within himself
God with form
made of God’s
light” ?
There are two kinds of God’s light . One is with form and
another is a splash of light only . The later is of superior type to the former
. Form made of light is seen in the sixth plane, whereas splash of light at the
entrance of the seventh plane .
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