RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

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 )

436. “Sometimes, a devotee laughs, weeps, dances, and sings”.

These are all outward signs of manifestations of insignia by which an Avatar is known, as it happens with Avatar only. It is called Urjita Bhakti or devotion in the Flow-tide form. God incarnates in a man. How am I to know it? This laughing, weeping, dancing and singing are the outward manifestations of God’s incarnation in a human being.

437. “A man of knowledge (Jnani) wants to realize the Supreme God”.

This type of man wants to see and attain God by self-exertion. No attempt on a man’s part can enable him to see God without God’s grace.

Furthermore, he is the man of knowledge who has been God in the form of Atman in the seventh plane and is able to identify himself as one and same with Atman at the annihilation of the body-consciousness.

438. “God is for a devotee and He is full of innumerable attributes”.

God becomes Bhagawan when He holds the Universe within Him. This condition of God may be seen in the Personal God as well as within Atman. To see the Universe in the personal God is a lower type of realization in comparison with seeing of the Universe within Atman.

439. “In fact, God without attributes and Life Power are identical and one”.

It is God without attributes who becomes God with attributes. It is seen and understood in Descent.

440. “It is God, Absolute, who has become Blissful Mother”.

God, the Absolute and this human body are identical and one and the same in different aspects.

“Semen is so soft and fluid and from it this hard and stiff physical body is made”.

– Sri Ramkrishna

441. “Pure Knowledge and Pure Love are identical and one”.

It is only different nomenclature as ascribed. There is but one God. God appears in the body in various sportive forms. They are seen. Love begets a form made of light as it is self-creation; whereas Man-of-knowledge is seen by innumerable members of the human race within their own bodies bearing proof that it is man who becomes God. This realization is spontaneous.

The question of Pure Knowledge and Pure Love does not arise.

“Atman, God or Brahma – they are one”.