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 )

270)     “He  alone  can  free  a  man  from  the  charm  of  illusion  (Maya)  as  it  is

              His  enchanting  illusion  which  has  kept  the  whole  Universe  enchanted

              with  the  most  charming  enchantment”.

Charming enchantment—is the unman body—the ego. This body turns in the fourth sheath as causal body. The causal body in its turn changes and appears as God with form. Then follows God without form. The Universe is seen within God without form. Then God turns into a seed. The seed appears as a dream. The dream vanishes and there remains no-ego-consciousness. Then flashes ‘I-am-not-but-Thou’. This state is liberation in life (Jibanmukti). Then starts the knowledge of ‘Thou’. God in the body shows his various sportive forms and these are but various conditions and stages of “I”. The “Thou” is changed into “I”.

271)     “A man’s real  religious  life  starts  after  attainment

              Of  God-the-Preceptor  in  his  body”

 At the outset God-the-Preceptor ushers in the body in the process of Descent (Nigam) and stops in the fourth sheath as causal body. Life-power in embryo at first gets awakened in the body of God-the-Preceptor. Without the body of God-the-Preceptor, life-power never awakes, nor she can have an upward motion.

272)     “They who  have  not  attained  God  in  them”

The attainment of God is firstly to see God in the seventh plane as shown by God-the-Preceptor and then to have the life-power transformed into Supreme Bliss.

273)     “They who  have  not  received  God’s  commandment”

The man who has received God’s commandment will appear as God-the-Preceptor to a real devotee. The devotee must have no previous knowledge of his God-the-Preceptor. The form of God-the-Preceptor is a real teacher; or in other words, it is God in human form.

“If you see me in dream to give you religious instructions then let you know that it is God speaking in human form”---Shri Ramkrishna. It is but a lower standard of God’s manifestation in the body as it has sprung up though coming in contact.

274)     “The man  who  has  not  strengthened  himself with  God’s  power”

The man must have the manikin form of God (Manus Ratan) in him, otherwise real power of God does not come in a man.

275)     “If  he  is  a  real  good  teacher”

It means God-the-Preceptor. God alone is good. It means Sat(Being) i.e., Asti(Reality). This Reality appears within the human form of God-the-Preceptor. It is the appearance of the invisible God without form in the body with form. In the words of the Vedas it is marking you as His special own.