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 )

(352)                         “These people are Vedantists. They always keep on discriminating----God

                                    alone is real and the world is illusory”.

 It is not by discrimination but by realization alone that one can attain such stage when he says that God alone is real and the world is illusory. To attain this stage one has to realize all these stages and conditions--- 

(1)        God  is  in  the body.

(2)        There will be a spontaneous liberation of God from the body.

(3)         God will be seen in human form made of God’s light.

(4)         Then He will be seen and shown as Atma in the seventh plane by God-the-Preceptor.

(5)         Then the Universe will be seen within Atma or God.

(6)         This Universe within God will be seen to be transformed into a Seed

(7)          This Seed in its turn will be transformed into a Dream.

These are all the sportive forms of God. A devotee sees all these sportive forms, realizes all these states, and his angle of vision changes by these realizations and the world appears illusory like a dream to him.

“If Atma or God unfolds Himself then all these sportive forms are seen.---Shri Ramkrishna. If God reveals His real Self then this stage that ‘the Universe is illusory like a dream’ is attained. “If God needs it then a man is blessed with the Supreme Knowledge.”---Shri Ramkrishna. Thakur was blessed with all these realizations but it was not with Totapuri Maharaj, the Vedantist Preceptor of Thakur. No such  unfoldments took place either in Totapuri or in Sankar. Even in case of all other incarnations of God, all these unfolldments, did not happen.

(353)       “If the world is illusory as a dream then you too are illusory like a dream;

                  the speaker and his speech are both alike illusory and but dreams”.

This state is rapidly followed by no-ego-consciousness, i.e. Sthitha Samadhi when the body collapses. Only Avatars, incarnations of God, come down from this state. Then follows ‘Knowledge of Thou’.

not by practicing any spiritual discipline or self—exertion. If this mystery of renunciation is spoken imagination on their part.

 (354)          “It is a very tall talk to speak out that the

                     Universe is illusory like a dream”.

By self—exertion, this stage that ‘the Universe is illusory’ cannot be attained. It is but a fictitious

remains at least a little ash”

                        Wood---represents human body”.

When wood is burnt---means real manifestations and realizations of God in the five sheaths and the unfoldment and revelation of Atma in His real Self.

Ash---represents ‘Knowledge of Thou’ Tattagyan. One’s ego is burnt; then comes ash, that is, ‘Thou’. It is termed ‘devotion in matured state’ Paka Bhakti. This is succeeded by Descent as in an incarnation of God or Avatar. Then this man gets the capacity of seeing ‘God, illusion, living beings and the Universe’---all together in their inter-related and inter-linked condition. He and he alone is in a position to say that the world is but an illusion; but he seldom does as he is fully aware that every aspect is but different aspect of God. On the contrary he says that the world is real too. Thakur often used to say, ‘The world is but God’s pleasure-house”.

(355)             “It is like camphor, when burnt nothing remains”.

Camphor---represents Atma. In an ordinary man if Atma unfolds His real Self then the body collapses within 21 days. But it seldom happens.

(356)             “When wood is burnt there remains at least a little ash”

Wood  -  represents human body.

When wood is burnt  -  means real manifestations and realizations of God in the five sheaths and the unfoldment and revelation of Atma in His real Self.

Ash  -  represents “knowledge of Thou” Tattagyan. One’s ego is burnt; then comes ash, that is, “Thou”. It is termed “”Devotion in matured state” - ;Paka Bhakti;. This is succeeded by Descent as in an incarnation of God or Avatar. Then this man gets the capacity of seeing ; God, illusion, living beings and the Universe; all together in their inter-related and inter-linked condition. He and he alone in a position to say that the world is but an illusion; but he seldom does so as he is fully aware that every aspect is but different aspect of God. On the contrary he says that the world is real too. Thakur often used to say,”The world is but God’s pleasure-house.”