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 )

281)     “For  a  bit  of  fleecy  cloud  the  sun  is  not  visible”

It is the entrance to the seventh plane when a thin silken curtain is seen hanging and sun is shining behind it,

282)     “The  cloud  is  removed  and  the  sun  is  seen”

The thin silken curtain is removed and God is shown by God-the-Preceptor in the seventh plane.

283)     “If  by  the  grace  of  God-the-Preceptor,

              ego  vanishes  then  a  man  sees  God”

The consciousness that ‘I-am-He’ springs up in a man and he sees that God and the Universe is within God. All these happen within him and his vision is confined within. Again, when he opens his eyes, he finds the Universe before him and it transpires that God-the-Universe within and outside are but identical.

284)     “God  is  nearest  of  all  to  us”.

God is within a man and he carries God within himself.

285)     “Each  additional  attribute  of  ego

              Tightens  the  bondage  of  a  man”

More the worldly senses grow, more the man is distracted from the path of God.

286)     :A frog  had  some  money  in  his  hole. One  day  an  elephant  walked  over  the  hole,

The  frog  in a  fit  of  anger  came  out, uplifted  its  foot  and  showed  a kick  to  the     elephant”

Wealth is another factor keeping a man in separation from God. Sometimes elephant, i.e., white elephant i.e, mind hankers after God, but the weight of wealth arrests its upward course.

287)     “The  light  is  seen  within  a lantern  but  it  cannot  be  touched”.

It is in the sixth plane that a lantern, with a light within, it seen.

288)     “This  ‘ego’ standing  between  man  and  God  keeps  them  in  separation”.

A tripartite distinction has been drawn here between man, ego and God. It is simply to make the thing clear. They are but three aspects of the very same thing. When the ego dies, a man is transformed into God. “The Primal force and the Supreme Self are identical.”---Shri Ramkrishna.

289)     “It  is  only  one  or  two  who, by  getting  themselves

             transformed  into  God,  can  get  rid  of  ego”.  

It is only one man in an era. Thakur was the sole man in his era.

290)     “If  ego  is  adamant  and  not  disposed  to  leave  you  at  all,  all  right

              let  the  rascal  remain  as  a  servant  to  God”.

This is ego of the sixth plane. It is here that God with form is first seen and a devotee surrenders himself to his deity.