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 )

116).                       “The  mind  is  all  in  all”.

 The mind of Shri Radha (the heroine of Shri Bhagavat—a holy epic) was transformed into the image of Shri Krishna (the hero) . So on whatever side she was casting her sight, her eyes met with the image of Shri Krishna .                     

  117).                      “But  there  is  one  mind”.

  The mind has got various phases . But all these phases merge and are transformed into one “Atma”—God with forms and attributes, and finally God without forms and attributes .

118).                    “Mind keeps a man in bondage . Mind makes a man free. I am

                              free man .

                              It is no matter if I live in the world or in the forest . What can

                              keep me bound?

                              I am a child of God. He is king of the kings. As such, who

                              dares keep me in bondage”?

If a man is bitten by a snake and if he keeps on saying emphatically, “There is no venom in me” then the venom leaves him . So if a man keeps on saying with right earnestness,

“I am not bound, I am free” then he turns out to be free”!

It is a prayer of a devotee to God. He listens to the prayer . One Mr. Hazra asked Thakur, “Will my prayer be heard by God” ? Thakur at once replied, “Yes, hundred times”. The above prayer has the character of self-exertion . To attain God by self-exertion then at the time of death, through the grace of God, he may have liberation—but the bliss of liberation cannot be enjoyed when alive . It is only spontaneous emanation which can set a man free to have its bliss in the lifetime .Spontaneous emanation of God from the body is the way of a kitten . It is exactly as if a father has taken charge of his own child . In case of a monkey cub, it is the cub which clutches the neck of its mother .

119).                        The wretched man who keeps on saying, ‘I am bound.

                                I am bound,’ gets himself really bound . He who says                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        day and night, ‘I am but a sinner.’ ‘I am but a sinner,’

                                in fact becomes a sinner .”

The intellect is colored by mind, and continued thinking of sin tarnishes the intellect. A tarnished intellect makes a man go down .

120).                         “To  see  God  is  the  end  of  life”

 No one can attain God by self-exertion . But if self-exertion persists vehemently then an advance may be made . It is through sheer grace of God that one can attain God . This grace of God is but spontaneous emanation .

121).                        “A man must have burning faith in Him that he may say,

                                ‘What! I have repeatedly taken the name of God, and so

                                 sin cannot cling to me . There is no sin in me. I am not bondage”.

 Such mental force may be ascribed to God’s grace. What is God’s grace? It is exactly to carry a burning light in a room keep in darkness for a thousand years and the room is illuminated in the twinkling of an eye. God’s grace is not a mental phenomenon. It is seen and it is obtained, but by one or two in an era.

122).                        “If the name of God is taken repeatedly by a man,

                                  then it makes him pure in mind and body .”

 There is no difference between God and God’s name. The name of God makes God manifested in the body.

123).                         I only prayed for devotion is my Divine Mother.”

                                 Is it only a mental operation?  Oh  no!

 The Divine Mother stands before the very eyes of the devotee . She wants to offer some of the attributes to the devotee. The devotee on his part does not want any . He bows down simply to the Divine Mother, takes the dust of her feet, places it on his head and says. “Oh Mother, may I be blessed with love of God only”! The Mother becomes highly please.

Love of God is the fixed star and it cannot be defined. To obtain the manikin form of God in one’s body is the highest realization of God’s love in a man.