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 )

483. “Every now and then one should retire in solitude, pray to God for being ‘Perfect’, or to be one with Him, or getting transformed into Godhead”.

Solitude does not mean ‘Alexander Selkirk’ in the island or alone in the Himalayan cave or in the desert of Sahara or in the forest of Africa. It simply means a place where there is no kith and kin of a man so that he may have an undiverted attention and the mind may be at rest and peace.

This is Vividisha. This Brahma Vidya or Supreme Culture or culture which makes a man spiritually One with all the rest of the human race cannot be had by self-exertion. It is Para Vidya and not Apara Vidya. In Para Vidya the knowledge comes spontaneously from within and Apara Vidya means the knowledge got from the outside.

Not unlike the Rishis of the ancient time Thakur declared openly, “Yes, I have seen God”. Whereas, in case of Buddha, he did not do so; he did not see God. In case of Buddha, it was self-exertion and in case of Thakur, it was spontaneous. Just remember – eleven years old lad Ramkrishna (Gadadhar then) on his way to the village Anur saw Light within and got Samadhi. This was the fountainhead from which every other realizations followed.

This Thakur’s ‘Seeing of God’ did not bear any proof as chalked out in the Vedas – “Twam Jato Bhavasi Viswatomukhah”.

In short, it is not acknowledge in the Vedas.

Universalle-La’-Homme or the Universal Man bears the insignia of the saying of the Bible – “Be Perfect as your Father in Heaven is Perfect”.

The Vedic Truth also declared long long ago – “The Man in the Sun is Perfect”. Otherwise perfection does not follow.

484. “He who with all the tendencies of life, mind and the innermost self, has merged into God is Sadhu”.

God alone is Sadhu or Perfect or Advaitam.

A MAN becomes GOD. He is seen within by thousands and thousands and in the some cases He says openly, “Hello, look here! Do you know who I am? I am God”. Really, it is wonder of wonders!

485. “Renunciation of ‘woman and wealth’ is the denomination of a Sadhu”.

It is secondary. A man may feign it.