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 )

431. “As the ocean is approached by the river, the force of flow-tide and ebb-tide is increasingly felt by her”.

Ocean – is God, the ocean of Bliss.

River – is Life Power.

Flow-tide and ebb-tide – are the outward sings of manifestations of God in the body and they are seen.

The inward transformations of Life Power get their expression over the body. It so happened with Thakur every now and then. In successions he used to have Samadhi of various forms and in every case of Samadhi, his outward expressions altered and they were visible.

432. “In ‘Jnani’ (man of knowledge), the river flows only in one direction”.

A man of knowledge (Jnani) wants to get himself merged in the First Cause. They did not get their five sheaths separated in their body. Neither they realize the sportive forms of God as Life Power after undergoing transformations assumes and appears before a devotee, nor they are acquainted with the mystery of God, illusion, living beings, and the Universe. The best example was Sri Totapuri Maharaj who stopped with Thakur for eleven months in the temple of Dakshineswar. Totapuri Maharaj had no knowledge of Primal Power (Karan Sarir – the Causal body, the body made of God’s Light i.e. God with form). Yes, Totapuri Maharaj was a man of very high order and merit but his realizations were short. A Jnani’s realizations are not in full measure. This is Laya Yoga or Life Power running towards void zone or annihilation.

433. “To a man of knowledge (Jnani) the Universe is like a dream”.

Who is a man of knowledge?

He, who sees God in the seventh plane and becomes conscious that he is not body but God (Atman), is a man of Knowledge.

It happens only with Avatar – the chosen man of God. All others simply pretend to be a man of knowledge.

To see the Universe like a dream is the fourth stage of realizations when Atman in the seventh plane opens Himself to show His real Self, i.e. He is with attributes and forms. Without any knowledge of God with attributes and form a man cannot have knowledge of God without attributes and forms. So to say that the Universe is like a dream is a pretension and imagination.

434. “A man of knowledge always remains in the Real Self”.

To a man of knowledge, the Real Self is the Absolute. It never happens with a man save and except in the last course of Samadhi known as Sthitha Samadhi.

“Well, the ego-consciousness never leaves one”. – Sri Ramkrishna

435. “To a devotee, realizations of God do not remain closed but they unfold. He gets flow-tide and ebb-tide of realizations”.

Flow-tide of realization – is to see the different sportive forms of God and ebb-tide of realization – is to witness the finer forms of God in the course of transformation to the Absolute such as seen in the enfoldment of Atman. God-the-Universe changes into a Seed, and the Seed into a Dream and after Dream, nobody knows what remains.

“A devotee at first sees glorious God with form and with glorious attributes, then the attributes of God with form lessen, then He turns into a baby form and finally He becomes God’s Light”. – Sri Ramkrishna