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 )
(357) “Padmalochan though a devotee in the Path of
‘Knowledge’
(Jnani), yet, respected me
like anything inspite of my repeating
Before him ‘Oh Divine Mother, Oh
Divine Mother!”
Padmalochan, a great
Sanskrit scholar, a big Pundit, did not see Atma or God. So he was not a man of
Knowledge Gyani. He was a devotee. Furthermore, he was a learned man ; as such,
he tried to get God by discrimination, and that cannot be done.
(358) “When he (Padmalochan)
heard* Ramprosad’s song from me,
tears rolled down his
cheeks in devotion”.
These tears of Padmalochan
bore the testimony that he was a devotee. He was a lucky and blessed man as he
came in contact with Thakur and heard the name of the Divine Mother from
Thakur. Thakur’s utterance of ‘Mother’ brought a flood of devotion in
Padmalochan ; so tears rolled down his cheeks.
* Ramprasad of Bengal
was a real devotee and
made many devotional songs.
His songs are very
popular like that of
Italian Tasso.
(359) “Once Padmalochan was
asked to decide which of the two deities,
Siva or Brahma, was
the greater ? With a child’s simplicity he said,
“I do not know,
Neither I, nor my ancestors back to the fourteenth
generations have
ever seen Siva or Brahma”.
Padamalochan had no
knowledge of the Causal body (Bhagabati Tanu). It is this Causal body in the
sixth plane which takes the human shape made of God’s light appears before a
devotee and talks with him. A devotee sees and hears Him or Her. In case of a
superior receptacle this Causal body takes various forms of gods and goddesses,
Avatars, saints etc. It helped one to understand that the very same causal body
is changed into various forms. “He is blessed who was come to know the mystery
of One changing into many”.
---- Shri Ramkrishna
(360) “Ah poor me! I do not know .
(360) “Ah poor me! I do not know .
But
I do relish
‘Woman and Gold”.
Thakur’s
body renounced ‘Woman and gold’. It was a spontaneous renunciation and not by
practicing any spiritual discipline or self-exertion. If this mystery of
renunciation is spoken out it cannot be understood by an ordinary man. So he
evaded explaining the cause.
(361) “When he got back partial consciousness
he began to
utter only ‘Ka’, ‘Ka’
(The first two letters of ‘Kali)’.
There was a tremendously
vain Pundit (a learned scholar in Sanskrit). He did not believe in God with
forms.
God revealed Himself as
Primal Power to the Pundit. He saw Kali and lost consciousness. When he
regained partial consciousness he commenced uttering ‘Ka’, ‘Ka’, ‘Ka’. Such
happens with one when he sees God with form, made of God’s light, for the first
time.
The scene was in the temple
of Dakshineswar at the foot * Panchavati.
Latu Maharaj (afterwards
Swami Adbhutananda, a disciple of Thakur) was lying senseless on his back.
Thakur with on e of the feet was rubbing Latu’s breast and said, “Be quiet and
silent ; you have got a very poor drinking capacity. You have seen divine
Mother, ‘Kali’, so you are wailing and shouting like this. Be quiet”.
* Five trees of different
species clustered together. It is looked upon a holy and befitting place for meditation and prayer. Panchavati is an outward symbol of Muladhar with five
different currents, named---(i) Ida, (ii) Pingala, (iii) Sushumna, (iv) Chitra,
and (v) Vajrani—in the human body. These currents make their way through the
spine into the cerebrum when Kundalini or life-power is awakened. Muladhar is
the resting place of the life-power and it situates between the sexual organ and the anus.
The sight is scattered in
the outer world. It is to be collected and kept confined in the body. Then the
third eyein the sixth plane will be opened and the vista of divine knowledge
will appear.
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