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 )
93).
“Let you realize in thousand
folds, but till you are transformed
into God (Samadhi) you are not out of bound of the Jurisdiction
of power (Sakti)”.
The translation of the saying contains its own explanation
as it has been so rendered.
94).
“I am in meditation, I am thinking God.—all these are but within the
Jurisdiction of life-power and they are
attributive forms of life-power”.
Even at the vanishing point of ego-consciousness leaves what
remains or not, nothing can be said as there is none to speak out .
95). “So the Supreme Self (Brahma) and life-power are,
though identical, but expressions of different aspects”.
“The Supreme Self is the life-power”---Shri Ramkrishna .
God without attributes and forms becoming God with
attributes and forms . It is Descent as seen in the body. It is the
manifestation of God in Descent in various stages, or in other words, it is the
display of God as Avatar in the body.
“Avatar displays with the aid of life-power”—Shri Ramkrishna
.
(i) Knowledge of
the Supreme Self (Brehmagyan)—no-ego-consciousness, and it is in connection with
the life-power transforming into Supreme Self (Ascent—Agam). This Ascent ends
here .
Then Descent follows .
(ii). Knowledge of
“Thou”—“I—am—not—but—Thou.”
(iii). This :Thou”
takes the form of a very ancient ‘Rishi’.(The ancient man of the Vedas),
appears and says, “The Divine consciousness is coming down very soon in the
form of Avatar
(Incarnation
of God)”.
(iv) Then the
Divine Consciousness is seen. It flares up in a red light in the middle of the
seventh plane . It is called ‘seeing of
consciousness’ (Chaitanya Sakshatkar).
“Like a brilliant red light emitting from the stick of a
Chinese red-light match box”—Shri Ramkrishna .
(v) Then the light—not—red—comes
down from the seventh plane to the neck . It is self- evident that the light is
descending ,
(vi). Then this
very lights seen to come down from the seventh plane to the waist up to the
organ of evacuation. Now this descent is
clearer than the first one.
(vii), This light again
takes the manikin form of “Avatar”, or Incarnation of God . He sings the glory
of God by clasping his hands . All these displays do not take place in a single
day, but it takes time .
96) “One cannot conceive the
Absolute without the Relative
Or the Relative without the
Absolute “
All the sportive forms of God are but displays and
manifestations of the Absolute . Again, the Absolute manifests Himself of these
endless sportive forms. This link between the Absolute and the Relative and
vice versa is inseparable, contiguous and eternal.
97). “Life-power
is the Supreme Self and the Self is the life-power “.
(a) ‘Life-power is the Supreme Self-‘is Ascent
(Agam). Life-power is transforming into God and becomes God—in the first stage
with forms and attributes and finally without forms and unqualified .
(b) ‘The Supreme Self is the life-power’—It is
Descent (Nigam).
It springs up from the no-ego-consciousness and finally
takes the from of the manikin or Manus-Ratan, i.e., Avatar.
The problem of the body is still unsolved. This Physical
body is but a form of God, the Absolute. “The staircase and the roof are made
of the same materials. The seminal fluid is so soft but how stiff and hard flesh
and bones are made out of it. Everything is possible in God as it so transpires
and is seen”—Shri Ramkrishna.
