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 )

(331)                      “The  light  of  Knowledge  must be  kindled  in  the  heart

                         (seventh  plane)”.

“The aim of life is to see God and attain God”.

                                                                 ----Shri  Ramkrishna.

God must be collected from the body. His manifestations must be seen in the seventh plane as shown by God-the-Preceptor and lastly, He must flare up in the form of consciousness like a red flame from the stick of a Chinese red-flame match-box (Chaitanya).

The lamp of knowledge is seen the burn in the body. It is not a metaphor but really it is so seen within…….

Place----Macedonia  in  Greece.

Time----Mid-day.

With a lantern in his hand the Greek philosopher Diogenes was seen walking in front of Alexander the Great. Alexander was very much surprised and asked, “How is it? It is day-time. But you have got a burning lamp”! Diogenes answered ; “I am seeking a Real man.” Diogenes meant to say that he is a Real  Man in whom the lamp of knowledge is seen to burn in his body. He was looking for such a man of Knowledge.  

     

The  Master  with  Shri  Amrita,  Shri  Trailakya  and

other  Brahma  devotees

At  the  Dakshineswar Temple

Thursday,  March  29,  1883.

(Chapter  V111  of  the  Gospal,  last  portion)

(332)                        “Rakhal, you are ill,  please take a bit of food (dried cooked rice---three

                              or four in number)  offered to ‘Jagannath’---the Lord of the Universe”.

To take 3 or 4 cooked and dried rice in the memory of the Lord of the Universe means to kate shelter and seek protection from God.

Oh Lord, I am ill. I take shelter at your hallowed feet. You are all. This illness is your another aspect. You are in the body and this illness is your one form. Let you come out in your appeasing form. Please give me your grace, let me have your mercy. Oh, let you see, what a faithful and loyal servant I am to you! I take the leavings of food (there 3 o 4 dried rice) partaken of by you. A man need not be thinking so much. Let him only remember God and God within the body has got thorough knowledge of you and your doing. If he likes then He gives His grace. He acts at His pleasure, and His will is law.                                    

(333)                       “Why  this  dress  of  Ochre  cloth?”

Ocher-cloth dress is not required to see and attain God. God is in the human body. He out of His grace emanates and manifests in the body. Some most lucky men, through sheer mercy of God, can see all these sportive forms of God in his own body. It is not required to have any charms or signs from the outside. Ochre cloth is an outward sign. It is a sign that one is trying to get God by self-exertion.

“Who knows what dress or uniform will help me to get God?” ---Shri  Ramkrishna.

It means that so special dress or uniform is required to get the grace of God.

Did Thakur were other cloth?

The reply is in the negative. It was not required. So he did not were it. Thakur is the ideal of the era. He led an ordinary mean’s life and by doing that he set up an example that through grace of God. God could not be obtained and not by any special kind of dress or uniform.

(334)                    “No  fancy  dress  can  help  one  to  attain  God”.

                

On the contrary, it is a kind of vanity which prompts one to make a parade of special dress to get the grace of God.

God is for all with all kinds of dresses.

“Uncle Moon (Moon in Indian mythology)is everybody’s uncle”----Shri  Ramkrishna.

To get His grace, all that is required is to pray to Him and the prayer must be inwardly because He is in you and fully aware of your sincerity. 

(335)                       “Again, there are such instances that a man may have everything he wants.

                                 But he is absolutely indifferent to all enjoyments. He weeps alone for Gos

                                 in privacy. The real renunciation is this one.”

  These are the signs where there will be spontaneous manifestation of God.

     (336)                         “No  lie  of  any  sort  holds  any  goodness  in  it”.

                           

 Truth manifests in the body. A man sees his real and true Self in the body. To see God is to establish  truth in life. The man who is on the path of truth or who has established truth in life cannot play a  false game in life.