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 )The Master at the house of Joygopal Sen
November 28, 1883
(In
the English translation of the Gospel of Sri Ramkrishna two chapters bearing
the same date have been fixed together, whereas the ‘Yogic’ interpretation is
done according to the Bengali Gospel and the difference is due to it).
478.
“After attainment of God, the world does not appear impermanent to him any
more”.
Attainment
of God – To become God.
A
man through internal evolution of Life Power attains Godhead; but it is purely
spiritual. The attainer of God will be seen by thousands and thousands of
members of the human race bearing testimony to the fact. Then attainment of God
or Godhead is proved. Nay, it goes furthermore, it evinces that God is One
internally in different forms and names and both running interlinked at the
same time.
The
data of seeing the Godhead within goes to prove (i) God is real, (ii) the human
race is real, and (iii) the body of every human being is the pleasure-house of
God as He manifests there in the shape of a person and that person is also
identical with a living human being.
479.
“Let you feed your kiddy thinking that you are feeding God”.
The
first principal that runs in the under-current of the idea is called Sahajiya
or the easy way to get God with form made of God’s Light. It is in the sixth
plane. Everything is Brahma or God. My own child is also God. Let me start with
it. Let the idea get matured, then spontaneously Yoga will grow in the body and
it will create a form made of God’s Light. The form will be seen by you but not
by others, save and except in the case where two men of the same plane meet. It
is a stepping-stone to the entrance of the culture.
The
idea has got five aspects and one of them is Vatsalya, i.e. to think and love
God as one’s own baby.
It
is cherished by a dualistic devotee towards God with form.
It
has also got two ways – (i) in Ascent, and (ii) in Descent.
In
Ascent – the example is ‘Gopal’ of Gopal’s mother or the revered Brahmin widow
of Kamarhati. Gopal is the form of baby Krishna. She (the widow) by the grace
of Thakur got her causal body transformed in the form of a child Krishna. The
child used to come out from her body, played and beloved exactly like a living
child – sometimes showing affection, sometimes demanding, sometimes distemper,
sometimes teasing, sometimes serving etc. But this cannot give the Supreme
Bliss.
It
was the car festival in the house of Sri Balaram Bose. Thakur was invited and
he came. Gopal’s mother was also invited and she arrived. After pleasing
conversation with Thakur while she was going to the house she saw Swami
Vivekananda.
At
once she put the question to him, “Have I reached the goal”? When a devotee
reaches the goal no such question in the form of doubt will appear. “After
realization of Atman, there remains not an iota of doubt; or in other words, it
eliminates any and every doubt”.
Atman
is not yet seen by the mother of Gopal, so this doubt lingers in her mind.
Thakur
got his Ramlala or the child Rama in Descent. In the Gospel of Sri Ramkrishna
it is so spoken by Thakur that in Descent, God with form made of God’s Light
may be seen and he quotes the instance in the life of Sukdeva.
Sukdeva
was in the Nirvikalpa Samadhi. It was so ordained that Parikshit, the-then king
as in Mahabharata, was to be tutored in the Supreme Cult by Sukdeva. Narada was
sent to bring down the mind of Sukdeva from the higher plane to the lower
plane. Narada came and commenced singing the religious lore of God – Hari.
Sukdeva came down but while descending in the lower plane, he saw the form of
God made of light.
