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 )
168) “Whom I
see that he
has got no
yearning for God”.
Thakur used to get the appearance of the man within his own
body and then he could read very easily their mental disposition. It is but a
bubble of getting God within oneself. The world is in God. The man before
Thakur is part and parcel of the world. So Thakur gets the man in him and comes
to know everything about him.
169) “If I
find man involved
in gross worldliness”.
A gross worldly man may be tested in a funny way. Let you
talk about God before him and he will leave the place at once. The physical
formation of the gross worldly man is so that God does not emanate from his
body.
170) “If a
worldly man is asked
to renounce everything
and get himself
whole-heartedly engaged in
devotion of God
then he will not
pay the least
attention to your words”.
If a worldly man asks another worldly man to be a real
devotee of God then it will not do any good . Mere words cannot produce any
effect. Of course, it was different thing with Thakur or any Avatar. Simply if
anybody comes in contact with them and here about God’s sportive forms in the
body from them then they in no time shall get their inner self transformed into
God according to the capacity of their body. “If God out of sheer pity frees
Himself from the body then there is liberation.”
171) “Nitai
(The first disciple
of Sri Chaitanya)
somehow or
other used to
induce a man
to repeat God’s
name”.
Who is a real devotee?
He is a real devotee whose form you will within you in
meditation or at any time . God within you assumes that form and makes you
acquainted and reveals the real state of the man. On the reverse again, the
real devotee will get and see you in him. Thus on both sides there will be such
revelations and then both of them will come to know their real respective
nature.
172) “God’s name
has got its
own charm”.
God and God’s name do not carry any distinction or
difference . A devotee finds that the name of God assumes the form of God. Let
you repeat the name of Jesus with all devotion, then God in you takes pity. He
will appear before you in the form of Jesus, he will show you His sportive
forms, will give you instructions and talk with you . It will be similar in
case of Mary (Mother of Jesus), Buddha, Lao-tzse, Zoroaster, Mohammed and Shri
Ramkrishna . It will reveal to you that every human form on the face of the
earth is God, but with a marked distinction that in some His power is
manifested in a greater degree and in some in a less quantit , in some as good
and again some bad.
173) “God’s
name may
not in some
cases produce any
off-hand
result but it
is positive to
bear fruit in
the long run”.
The Supreme Cult never leaves a man . It never gets
destroyed or evaporated . It is God’s grace and it is sure to bear fruit in its
own time.
174) “In the
cornice of a
building a seed
was left . In the
course of time,
the building crumbled,
the seed fell
on the earth, germinated and
bore fruits”.
You get the seed of God’s name. The seed may not germinate
at once . But it is sure to germinate, become a tree and bear fruits. This is
not a mere simile or analogy . This tree is seen at the end . It is one of the
sportive forms of God. Some see it as banian tree and some again as mango tree
. A mango tree is better than a banyan tree. A banyan tree indicates merging
into no-ego-consciousness and there is no Descent. But a mango tree with green
and ripe fruits of big size indicates Descent. As without Descent the complete
and thorough mystery of this human body cannot be realized.
