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 )
459.
“So long, the spring was under cover”.
The
Life Power was in a dormant state but now she is awakened and rising up to the
seventh plane.
460.
“It is very hard to do good work without any selfish touch in it”.
No
work can be done without any self-interest in it. It is but a self-deception
and a false consolation that a good work is done without any self-interest in
it. Yes, teachers like Buddha, Jesus, Sankar, Sri Ramkrishna taught the human
race. But their case was absolutely different from others as they had God’s
commandment.
461.
“But after seeing God, a man may do good work being totally unselfish”.
This
is a different kind of work. Work of this kind is done by the great teachers
like Buddha, Jesus, etc. This is to kindle the thirst for God in a man. By
Thakur also it is so done. It is to pass one’s day in the company of real
devotees and to speak to them about God’s sportive forms as seen and realized
in the body.
462.
“Monks for their livelihood will depend absolutely upon God”.
Monks
will be satisfied with whatever they get without any effort or self-exertion on
their parts. But it is an old monkish course and it has been discarded by
Thakur. He often said, “A clerk was sent to a jail. He was put in chains there.
After sometime he was set free. He came out from the jail. Now, what would he
do? Would he keep on cutting capers in the street? Certainly not. He would try
and secure a clerk’s job somewhere and lead an ordinary simple life like
others”. The parable means that a man after liberation leads an ordinary,
simple and pure life. There is no special privilege for him as a liberated one.
It is Brahma Vidya, the Supreme Culture and culture is for the sake of culture
only.
Then
what a real devotee will do for livelihood? He shall be earning his own
livelihood in the best possible honest way.
Thakur
at first was but a paid priest in the temple of Dakshineswar. Later on, he was
pensioned. He used to say, “I live on pension”.
463.
“They (monks) should not lay by for the morrow”.
No
hoarding for the morrow. The father has taken the kiddy by the hand – no fear
for a slip. The Father in the body will conduct your life in such way that
there will be no accumulation for future but at the same time, you shall not be
in want.
“A
trained dancer dances in rhythm”.
– Sri Ramkrishna
464.
“Let love of God manifest within, work ceases concomitantly”.
True
and real love to God cannot grow without being seen.
Faith
may create an imitation of love but it fails to produce the desired effect.
Here
‘Love’ is Prema – a yogic term. It was seen in Sri Chaitanya who forgot the
world and even his own dear body.
The
yogic form of Prema as manifested in the body is described below:
When
Mahavayu makes its course through the front side of the body and gets up into
seventh plane and Samadhi follows it, then the following signs in the body are
manifested and seen:
1.
The breast heaves heavily.
2.
The body writhes.
3.
Like a rope the Mahavayu rises from the abdomen. “Prema is like a rope with
which God is tied”.
– Sri Ramkrishna
This
state is visible even to those men who sit near the attainer of Prema.
Furthermore, whenever the attainer will like to have this state, it will come
upon him and will be seen by others.
