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 )

198)     “Again, God  is  seen  without  any  form”

 There are three principal stages of seeing God without any form. They are---(1) God as Atma, (2) God as sky or void zone and (3) God as Supra-consciousness (Paramatma). These three realizations come at long intervals and not in succession.

199)     “So  long  as  the  kiddy  plays  with  the  toys  and  makes  himself  forgetful”

 Toy---here represents body. A man making himself forgetful of his own real ‘Self’ thinks that he is human body.

200)     “The  mother  keeps  herself  engaged  in  attending  to            

              other  household  work  such  as  cooking,  etc.”

 God is represented here as Mother. She is in you.

To attend to other household work---means God lying in dormant condition within the body.

201)     “When the  kiddy  becomes  disgusted  with  his  toys”---

 When the human body appears as a source of troubles and displeasure, i.e., when the thirst for worldly pleasure gets abated, nay, discards the man……

202)      “Then the  kiddy  yells  for  mother”

 If a man cries for God and gets a sincere yearning then transformation of life-power within his body takes place spontaneously.

203)     “The  mother  sets  aside  the  cooking  pot”

The mother (God) emanates from the body.

204)     “With  hasty  steps,  she  comes” 

When life-power in body is awakened and makes her way towards the seventh plane, a sound is heard between the fourth plane and the fifth. Here the knots of the heart are  cut asunder. The sound heard and it is very keenly felt.

205)     “The  mother  takes  the  child  to  her  breast”

God is shown by God-the preceptor in the seventh plane, then all skepticism vanishes.

206)     “If  somehow  or  other  God  is  attained  then  he  will

              make  you  understand  all  about  His  sportive  forms”

 After attainment of no-ego-consciousness—the void zone in Ascent—then at the outset of Descent the whole process of transformation of life-power comes a floating before the eyes and keeps on floating for ever.

207)     “A  dispute  arose  about  the  colour  of  a  chameleon  on  a  tree.

             Some  saw  it  in  green  colour, some  in  red, some  in  blue,some

             in  violet, some  in  grey, and  so  on. Everyone  was  sure  about  his 

             own  experience  of  the  colour. The  dispute  did  not  end  but 

             remained  unsettled”

Here it is spoken of God with forms. Some say God as Zoroaster made of God’s light, some saw as Jupiter, some as Buddha, some as Jesus, some as Shri Chaitanya and some as Shri Ramkrishna. It is obvious that the dispute cannot be settled as they cannot ignore their own realizations, nor can they disbelieve their own eyes. It is due to a partial knowledge. Had they been acquainted with the whole process of transformation of life-power then there would have been no dispute at all. It is simply that God in man appears as Zoroaster to someone, as Buddha to someone, as Jesus to someone, as Shri Ramkrishna to someone else.

Tree---represents human body.

Chameleon---is God in man.