RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

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 )

77)                     “Mother why have you brought me here in the midst

                            of these people ? Shall I be able to save them by liberating

                            God from their body as He is hedged around by their body?”

 Hedge—signifies body made of flesh and bones. Thakur means to say that did God take pity on them He would have freed Himself from the body and showed Himself by manifestation in them and would have killed all their dissatisfaction with Supreme Bliss. He did not do so as otherwise these men would not have come to him. Yet it is good that these men have got an opportunity to come in contact with him. It may help them to kindle their lamps within.

 78)                  “The  pillow  and  the  pillow  case”.

 The pillow—represents life-power and her transformation into God and pillow case—represents body.

When the life-power emanates and is finally transformed into God, the body remains like a pillow case. This condition of the body has been stated by Thakur as dried-up cocoanut or betel nut in a shell . God has separated Himself from the body . The life-power rises towards the cerebrum. (The neck like a pendulum keeps on moving from right to left . In its moving it makes  sound like a cocoanut or betel nut in a shell ). It is seen and heard. This is called Brahma Vidya—the cult of transforming the life-power into tangible God in the body in different sportive forms and in different stages . The inward transformations taking place within make their expressions over the body and they are distinctly visible. They were so seen over the bodies of Shri Chaitanya and Thakur in the state of Bhava(half-transformation of life-power into God)and Samadhi (complete transformation of the life-power into God).

This Brahma Vidya, Supreme Culture, has got its own peculiar aspect. If the man who has attained this supreme cult is asked—‘Sri, dies God separate from the body?”—before he answers, the expression of movement of the neck will be seen over the body accompanied with the sound of a dried betel nut in a shell. It is evinced that the body is but a pillow case.

79).     “The seventh  plane  of  the  devotee  where God  has  manifested  in  full

              measure  is  His  particular  drawing  room”.

This ‘drawing-room’ of God is revealed in a different way in two different planes—

(1)   In the fourth plane :  and

(2)   In the seventh plane.

(1)   In the fourth plane it is seen that the whole outer world is besmeared with God’s light  It was so seen by Thakur in the temple of Divine Mother . On whichever side he was casting his eyes, he saw God’s light pervading all the articles—the door-steps, the door, the walls, the pots before him and the image of the Divine Mother . If this God’s light is not seen in the outer world pervading everything which comes within sight then God’s light cannot be seen within the body.

(2)   In the seventh plane God is seen and the God there in the cerebrum holds the whole Universe in God (Viswarup—lit; universal aspect of God). It is the first step of special knowledge of God and also elimination of the mystery surrounding me in connection with ego, God and the world. Thakur very adroitly expressed it by two letters only . They are “Ma” (Maw) and “Ra” (Raa). “Ma” means God and “Ra” means Universe. God first and then comes the world. Where is God seen? He is seen in the seventh plane. What is God? He who holds the universe in Him is God . All this are showed and seen. God has got innumerable houses all over the world. The drawing room is that where He has manifested His particular mode Viswarup . Other innumerable houses all over the world belong to Him, and He is also there, but only the manifestation and realization vary . In the drawing room He is manifested and in other houses He is in an unmanifested condition . The devotee is fully aware that God has manifested in him but it does not stop there . It gives publicity. God out of grace to some men makes them known that “I am in this particular devotee”. It does not happen in very case. Bharadwaja and other eleven Rishis(saints) came to know that Rama was an Avatar—incarnation of God .He is called Avatar in whom God manifested in full measure . In the rest of the world He is but unseen and invisible . God in full measure is collected and seen only in Avatar. But it does not happen in case of every Avatar as there are some in whom God with forms appears and descends . There is but one God, and where He has manifested He is there and there only and nowhere else, and this is His particular drawing room in the era.

80).                     “The  Jnanis  call  Him—Brahma,  the  Yogis  call  Him             

.                                    Atma,  and  the  Bhakts  call  Him—Bhagwan”

 Jnanis (man of knowledge) are those who have attained the knowledge that they do not exist . Only God exists . It is the process of elimination and at its end the ego is eliminated and then what remains cannot be said . It is the summum bonum condition in the process of Ascent. ‘Jnanis’ God is without any form, i.e, an unqualified one . Jnanis do not get all the sportive forms God in the process of transformation of life-power  into God as planes do not unfold .Yogis are those in whose body the process of  transformation takes place and it is seen. They call God ‘Atma’ as He has grown out of the body and in the body . Atma means that which grows out of self in the form of light . Bhaktas are those whose God holds the Universe within Him . It is special knowledge of God and this is the first phase of attaining the stage of a Bhakta . The final stage of a “Bhakta” is to get the yogis, ‘Bhagwan’ of the devotees, and  ‘Brahma’ of the men of knowledge are but one God in the body in the way of Ascent in three different stages .

Atma is seen in the seventh plane in the first stage. God-the-Preceptor shows Atma and He flattens in the end like a bunch of paddy.

Bhagwan is that condition of God when nothing can be spoken of Him.