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 )

The  Master  and  Vijay  Goswami

at  Dakshineswar

Thursday---December  14, 1882  

245)     “It was  his  last  birth”                

  Here, a real devotee who saw God with form committed suicide, Thakur made this remark, “It was last birth”

Last birth—means to be merged in the Great Cause. But it is the last phase of realization as laid down in the Tantras. Here in the life of this devotee, God did not manifest Himself in Supreme Knowledge; then he would have remained to fulfill God’s  mission in life. “If God needs then He manifests Himself in Supreme Knowledge in a man”. Here the devotee died, so he had no God’s mission of fulfillment in life. It transpires that he did not attain the Supreme Knowledge. To attain Supreme Knowledge needs manifestation of God in the five sheaths as laid down in the Vedas. The man in whose body God manifests Himself as Supreme Knowledge lives being liberated from the bondage of body. There is no ego or ‘I’ for the liberated one but a perpetual “Thou”; so there would not have been any suicide.             

246)     “Such  happenings  come  into  existence”

This is that very unexpected and spontaneous favourable  circumstances which a man experiences in ordinary course of life. This favourable circumstances arise through the grace of God and a man takes its advantage through innate inclination.

In the course of realizations in various forms of God as Atma in the seventh plane it transpires that the three chambers---Past, Present and Future---of time are but one, and everything is predestined. Nothing is to come bur everything is in existence. There is no future but a continuous present. Present in the existence as it is predestined.

Thakur yearned for a bower of holy basil plants (Tulsi Kanan). But he had no arrangement for it. All necessary equipments for the bower came afloating in the Ganges. The gardener noticed it and informed Thakur. So the bower of holy basil plants was made.

The temple of Dakshineswar was constructed for Thakur(Shri Ramkrishna) to live and to talk about the sportive forms of God as seen in the human body. Rani Rasmani, the owner of the temple-garden, was ordered to build the temple in a dream.

The ‘Bhairabi’ (woman adapt in Tantrik disciplines) being commanded in a dream came to Dakshineswar to help Thakur in his realizations of the sportive forms of God as laid down in the 64 Tantras. Puri Maharaj (the itinerant monk who helped Thakur in his realizations of the Vedanta in the seventh plane) came to Dakahineswar being led by the same cause. It is to happen and it happens.

247)     “After  a  gold  image  is  cast  into  a  clay  mould  you  may

              Preserve the  clay  mould  or  it  may  be  broken”

Gold image---is the form of body made of God’s light as seen in the forth sheath or the sixth plane. The ‘form of body’ made of God’s light changes to Atma—God. After seeing this Atma, if God so wills then the man lives or otherwise within 21 days of transformation of the life-power into Atma, the attainer of this state gives up his body.

248)     “So  some,  after  attainment  of  knowledge  and  seeing  God  cast  away

             their  bodies;  but  to  give  up  body  in  that  way  a  very  tall  talk”

 Attainment of knowledge---means to see God in the form of Atma and to have the sense grown that ‘I am not body but I am God’.

Seeing  God---is to see the Universe in Atma—God.

I am Atma. The Universe is in Atma, that is, the Universe is in me---the Atma---God

But such realization comes only to one marked man of God in an era. So the question of casting away the body after attainment of knowledge does not arise. The attainment of knowledge---i.e. seeing God in the form of Atma identical with Atma and then to see that the Universe is in Atma are but rare realizations and they happen through sheer grace of God, as the blessed man of all these realizations is born to receive God’s commandment for relating the sportive forms of God as seen in the body.

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 )

 240)     “Afterwards  I  told  Keshab,  “Why  do  you  say  such  things  so  often.

            “O  God,  what beautiful  flowers  Thou  hast  made!  Thou  hast  created

             the  heavens,  the  stars,  the  oceans  and  so  on”?

The  speaker speaks out to evince that his mind is roaming in the outside world and his life-power is not transformed into God, and it is not in the body, i.e., he not a Yogi.

241)     “So,  I  say,  a  man  seeks  the  very  same  man  whom  he  finds  Joy.

              He  does  not  go  to  enquire  address  of  his  house  or  how  many

              houses,  gardens,  relatives,  servants  and  wealth  he  owns!”              

It is spoken of a man who has got God in him all on a sudden—Hathat Siddha. A Hathat Siddha becomes so deeply moved with joy of God in him that he does not seek for other sportive forms of God.

242)     “Who  is  that  man  rowing  the  boat  on  and  across  the  land?”

The boat is rowed on and across the land through the grace of God-the-preceptor as God-the-preceptor opened out this passage when He come down from the formless God.

Land---here represents  body.

Boat---represents life-power.

Life-power courses her way through the body and falls into the ocean of the Supreme Bliss, i.e., in the seventh plane. All these things are seen, otherwise they cannot be understood. God-the-preceptor shows these things in the body and then makes one understand by teaching.

To row a boat on land is absurd. But nothing is absurd for God. God-the-preceptor shows the devotee that a boat is rowed on land by him. It is His grace.

243)     “Nikasha  replies---‘O  Rama, I am  so  long  alive,  hence

              I  am  seeing  all  these  sportive  forms  of  you, I  went  to

              live  further  so  that  I  may  see  your  more  sportive  forms 

              which are  to  come”

 Nikasha the mother of Ravana, the King of Lanka (Ceylon); it is so spoken in the great Indian epic Ramayana.

Ravana---represents the animality in a man. With the advent of God in the human body the animality dies;

The man with divinity in him lives and Nikasha represents that man. A man becomes ‘Nikasha’ when he gets the manikin form of God in him in Descent. He wants to live more to see other sportive forms of God in him as he is the marked devotee of God and his body is really the God’s house, i.e., temple, church, mosque, etc.

244)     “The  ways  of  God  cannot  be  understood”

“A milk pot for two pounds milk cannot hold eight pounds”---Shri Ramkrishna.

All the infinite sportive forms of God cannot get their manifestations and expressions in the human body. The limit of expression is so far as He by His grace manifests Himself in the body.