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 )

419. “Near the tank, I (Sri Ramkrishna) got my inward self spontaneously transformed into God (Samadhi) and though I did not see the Goddess Mrinmoyee before, but I saw Her there up to the waist”.

How could it happen?

It is a feature of realization in the domain of Vedanta.

Thakur’s body was a perfect barometer which exhibited realizations so far solving the mystery in connection with God (Iswar), Illusion (Maya), Living Beings (Jiva), and the Universe (Jagat) and he used to see all these four things simultaneously and in a linked condition. Thakur had God in him. The Universe was in God. It was God-the-Universe – one of the greatest sportive forms of God. In the outside he came nearby to the temple of the Divine Mother Mrinmoyee to show that the outward Universe and the Universe in God within Thakur were the same and one. God manifested himself with the form of the Divine Mother Mrinmoyee in him. The outward Universe was but a reflection of the Universe in God within Thakur, or ‘I’ or ego. So far, it was in Ascent. But again in Descent this outward Universe was real and an aspect of God. Both the features were but different aspects of God. In the ‘Gospel of Sri Ramkrishna’, Sri ‘M’, the author, an earnest and real devotee of Thakur made this remark, “Well, he (Thakur) did not give away the Universe by declaring that it was an illusion; on the contrary, he declared that the Universe was real”.

Similar realization like the Divine Mother Mrinmoyee came upon Thakur, while he had been in Navadwip – a holy place in Bengal. Throughout the length and breadth of the locality he had not a bit of realization manifested in his body. He wondered, how could it be? Was it not the place where Sri Chaitanya and Sri Nityananda had been? But after all no iota of realization came upon him. Then he came to the bank of the Ganges (river) and boarded a boat there. He was yet in a standing posture when all on a sudden he cried out, “They are coming down, they are coming down upon me”! and he got Samadhi. Afterwards he related that he boarded the boat, stood on the deck and saw that the forms of Sri Chaitanya and Sri Nityananda made of God’s Light with an aura in a circular shape around their faces and heads came down upon him and vanished. By this realization he came to the conclusion that this was the locality where Sri Chaitanya and Sri Nityananda had been living and then in the course of time, the locality was absorbed by the Ganges.

But of course, this realization took place within Thakur. In Vishnu Dhyan or meditation known as Vishnu, when half of the mind was within and half of the mind was in the outside, it appeared that he saw this in the outside. But it was not so. Had it been in the outside then it would have been seen by one and all.

420. “But Kaluvira was the most favorite of the Divine Mother”.

(Kaluvira was a hero in one of the epics of Bengal.)

The most favorite – means that God in Kaluvira manifested in a greater degree in comparison with other men of the era. 

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 )

414. “I am but sky”.

It is spoken of void zone or no-ego-consciousness state. In the state there remains no ego to speak out this thing. Only in Descent a devotee may say so. But it is a rare thing. Otherwise it means pure imagination.

415. “Let one continually repeat, ‘I am freed from the bondage of the body’. ‘I am freed from the bondage of the body’, then he shall be merged in the First Cause”.

This is the force of habit. By repetition, the tongue will come in touch with palate and this continuous contact will yield Yoga and thereby God may be liberated from the body if He likes and the man at the time of his death may melt in the First Cause.

In the lifetime of one does not get the body and soul separated like sword and scabbard, i.e. liberation in its true sense and also the perpetual Bliss (Nityananda) in his body, then the life is not worth living; nay furthermore, it is a burden and failure. To get salvation at the time of death is but a poor consolation.

416. “Yes, there I saw face of the Goddess, Singhabahini (Lit. Whose mount is lion) and the face was smeared with and radiating a divine light”.

This divine light came out from Thakur’s eyes. It often happens with a devotee that he finds that his object of sight is smeared with divine light. It is called Vishnu Dhyan or meditation by fixing the mind on the tip of the nose – half the mind is in the outside and half the mind is in the inside. In fact, he sees his own inside by half the mind and transfers the inward reflection of the other half. The other half of the mind is in the outside and the reflection is seen in the outside.

417. “One must acknowledge the Divine Presence in the image”.

Nay, a true devotee not only admits and sees the Divine Presence in an image but when his Life Power rises in the fourth plane, he finds that everything in the outside is smeared with Divine Light as Thakur saw in the temple of Goddess Kali – the Divine Mother.

418. “Well, I smelt the scent of the spices called ‘Abatha’ when I approached the tank there. I had no idea that the women devotees offer ‘Abatha’ to the Goddess, Mrinmoyee”.

Mrinmoyee is another name of the Divine Mother. It so happened with Thakur while he had been in a certain locality called Vishnupur. There was a big tank near the temple of Mrinmoyee. Near the tank he smelt the scent of Abatha though he had no previous knowledge.

Not that it will happen with one and all, but it is a special feature in the transformation of the Life Power which is possible with Thakur. Both outside and the inside in Thakur are becoming one. Furthermore, in the process of transformation of the Life Power, some devotees get smell of sweet scent.