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 )

442. “A learned ignorance is the end of philosophy and the beginning of religion”.

A philosopher wants and attempts to attain God through learning. He fails. It hits him in his egoism. But it cannot extinguish his real egoism. Real egoism dies when Life Power is transformed and becomes visible in the form of God – Atman, and ego-consciousness changes and becomes identical with God-consciousness.

Beginning of Religion – starts with the appearance of Satchidananda Guru – God-the-Preceptor in the body. It is a positive aspect.

443. “There are some who are born free – Nitya Siddha”.

They are born with such a pliable body that God in their body is liberated spontaneously; of course, it is a rare thing, but it happens. It so happened with Thakur at the age of eleven.

444. “Those who have got such a waist where Life Power gets awakened spontaneously are Iswarkoty”.

The first awakening of Life Power in the body takes place below waist and then she makes her way through the backbone to the seventh plane.

There are two kinds of Iswarkoty.

(1) “Some bamboos have got bigger hollows in them”.

– Sri Ramkrishna

‘Bamboo’ – represents backbone.

‘Bigger hollow’ – represents the tubular space in the backbone.

In an Iswarkoty, the hollow in the backbone is bigger than any ordinary man.

But this kind of Iswarkoty is Iswarkoty in name only as their realization and emanation of God is their body are meagre.

(2) They are real Iswarkoty who in Descent see God-consciousness coming down from the seventh plane to the waist. It is the full-fledged form of Iswarkoty. Then he becomes aware that he is an Iswarkoty.

445. “I gave up everything at the feet of Divine Mother but I could not give up Truth to Her”.

God is Truth and Truth is God.

Truth or Reality or God is in Thakur. He sees and feels this Reality with every breath. So this Truth or Reality or God cannot be parted with. This Truth manifests in everybody external life. Thakur gave up ‘Woman and Gold’. It manifested in his everybody external life. It often so happened with him that with the appearance of a woman before him, he got Samadhi and thereby used to lose his consciousness. As for gold, if a silver coin were placed in the palm of his hand, then his hand would get paralyzed, his breathing would stop and he would feel pain and these changes in his body would not come back into normal condition till the silver coin was removed.

446. “It is very hard for a man to discharge the duties of a house-holder after liberation in full measure as well as separation of God from the body”.

A man with these conditions in him attains the Supreme Knowledge. After attainment of Supreme Knowledge, a man lives only to see the sportive forms of God in him. So far the material world is concerned, he merely lives. Thakur used to say, “I shall eat, I shall sleep and I shall live”. But ultimately it does not remain so. He gets God’s commandment and becomes an universal teacher, nay more than that – an Administrative General in the spiritual life.