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.