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 )
145).
“Preceptor, Master, and
Father, these three
words make a shudder pass
through me”.
Preceptor---“A man can never be a preceptor .
God-the-preceptor is the only preceptor”—Sri Ramkrishna.
Master---God is the Master of the world and everybody else
in the world is but a sight-seer and a passer-by.
Father---It means to be entrapped in the temptation of the
world.
After attainment of the Supreme Cult, the attainer is always
protected by the awakened God in his body, so he cannot have a fall. The
Supreme Cult never deserts the attainer.
146).
“Preceptor is only
God-the-Preceptor”.
God-the-Preceptor assumes human form, appears before you,
blesses you and says . “You will attain God-head”. God in the body takes this
unknown or by-gone human form, selects you as a bridegroom, in other words,
makes your body a play ground for this blissful and joyous sports.
He teaches you the whole course of Rajayoga---the emanation
and transformation of God through the five sheaths or the seven plane into the
Supreme Bliss.
He gets Himself changed before your very eyes as your deity
to whom you daily pray. As for instance, a man has got St. Paul as his God-the-Preceptor. But his deity
is Jesus as he prays to Him. Before his very eyes he will see that the form of
St, Paul is changed into the form of Jesus. Again in the seventh plane,
God-the-Preceptor shows God and merges into God.
Without attainment of God-the-Preceptor, a devotee is not
lucky enough to see God in various states in him ; nay not only this, but he
will not get the least response of God in him .
Thakur says, “Without the bliss of God-the-Preceptor, there
cannot be any upward progress. “This upward progress means he upward motion of
the life-power in a man, that is, waking of life-power and her march in the
seventh plane . Without the attainment of God-the-Preceptor, the life-power
does not wake up . There cannot be any realization without life-power being
wakened up.
The attainment of God-the-Preceptor is a kind of
transformation into God-with-Form as God in the body assumes that form out of
sheer mercy.
God-the-Preceptor expresses himself in the body in various
measures. They are:--
(1) “Some unknown
man (a human form made of God’s light) will appear and tell you, ‘Come along
with me’; then it will be a very easy journey to make climbing on his
shoulder”.---Sri Ramkrishna .
This unknown man is God-the-Preceptor in full measure and he
comes to the seer at an early age of twelve to thirteen.
‘Unknown man’ means the human form of God-the-preceptor whom
you did not see before ; but afterwards you will be coming to know everything
about him .
(2) A devotee used
to pray to God for a good preceptor. God heard his prayer and appeared before
him in the form of God-the-Preceptor. The form of God-the-preceptor was a
living one.It denoted that God in full measure was manifested and that the
living man was God-Himself-with-form.
(3)
God-the-preceptor appears, shows the devotee his favorite deity and
merges himself into the deity. Here both God-the-preceptor and the deity are
made of God’s light.
(4)
God-the-preceptor appears all on a sudden with an aspect of one mad in
God’s love, and with up-lifted hands indicating that God in him has separated
from his body and speaks, “Remember God and talk of God—all along”.
(5) It was dusk in a dense forest. The sky was
covered with black clouds. Lightning and thunders succeeded each other, a high
gale was blowing and it was tempestuous. A poor traveler was exasperated and in
bewilderment cried out. “How am I to cross this forest?” A voice was heard and
it spoke, “Remember God, take God’s name and there will not be the least
difficulty for you to go out of the forest”.
(6) A devotee is
seeing that God-the-preceptor is giving him instruction about the waking of
life-power.
(7) A devotee is
in a boat and his God-the-preceptor is the boatman and plying the boat in a
river.
(8) A devotee is
standing on the sea-shore. There is a boat on the shore. His God-the-preceptor
is on the boat and the helm of the boat is in his hand. The devotee is maddened
with joy at the sight . He cries aloud, “Well, well, Sir! What brings you
here”? The reply comes, “I have come to learn that you shall be due here and so
I have come”. The devotee then gets into the boat.
(9)
God-the-preceptor assumes the form of an old man and beckons the devotee
.
(10)
God-the-preceptor appears as an ancient sage (Rishi) and gives
instructions .
All these realizations came upon a group of devotees in
dreams.
“Does realization in dream bear any less value ?”---Shri
Ramkrishna . The Brihadaranyaka and Chandogya (Upanishads), parts of the Vedas,
say that realizations in dreams are purer then the realizations made with open
eyes.
147) “God is mother
to me and
I am but
her child”.
This is but knowledge of ‘Thou’ as in opposition to ‘ego’ or
‘I’, and this is also called the matured love to Go . There remains
no-ego-consciousness in the Supreme Knowledge. But when consciousness comes
back, it comes back with ‘thou’ and not ‘I’. This is called conscious-existence
of Descent or this is designated as matured love. If this knowledge is once
attained this never leaves or deserts the attainer. So those who have attained
this knowledge of ‘thou’ can never play the role of preceptor. At every turn
Thakur used to say, “God
along is the Preceptor”. God, in one aspect, is this world
and it is His sportive form . Thakur without any break in the day or at night
was witnessing this God’s sport . His eyes were fixed continually on God. So he
was a child to God . How can a child play the part of a preceptor? One of
Thakur’s devotees, by name Tej Chandra, asked for initiation . Thakur replied,
“I cannot be your preceptor, I simply can be your instructor”.
148) “There are human
preceptors by the
million”.
It is simply and solely ignorance and false vanity which
prompts a man to ply the role of a preceptor.
149) “Everyone wants to
be a preceptor . There is
hardly one who
condescends to
be a disciple”.
Preceptor---means false vanity according
to Thakur’s ideology, as a man cannot be
A preceptor.
A disciple is compared by Thakur as low land . Thakue’s teaching
was, “The
water of God’s grace does not get
accumulated in high land; whereas,
it accumulates in the
low land”.
150) “If you
are not commended
by God, then nobody
is going
to hear
you”.
Without God’s command there will be no force in your
instructions and there will be no room for them in the mind of your audience.
So God in their bodies will not emanate. They shall not get you as God-the preceptor
in them and that proves that you have not got God’s command.
