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 )

486. “He is a Sadhu whom women see in their heart and at the same time he is not seen in the company of women folk”.

The term 'antar' in Bengali as used by Thakur has got double meanings;

(1) To live in the heart of the women; i.e., the women without coming in contact with him shall see him within them. This is happening here in the house of the male members who visit here and attend the reading of the Gospel of Sri Ramkrishna. The male members see the Sadhu (Diamond) and the women folk of their house also see him within them; even in some cases the maid-servant is not excluded.

(2) The women folk are not required to attend.

487. “If it so happens, that he (Sadhu) meets a woman, he looks upon her as his mother and offers his worship”.

It is not so required in the present case. Sadhu and the woman are but ‘One’ spiritually, and a spontaneous self-Knowledge springs up and rejects all other ideas about woman.

488. “A Sadhu always thinks of God”.

The mind of a Sadhu always rests in the seventh plane. It is very adroitly and nicely pointed out by Sankaracharya, the great non-dualist of India, “The man who all the day and night keeps on moving on Brahma is a Sadhu”.

Brahma is in the seventh plane or the cerebrum.

489. “He (Sadhu) talks of God and God alone and nothing else”.

The mind of a Sadhu never comes down from the fifth plane.

When a man’s mind is on the fifth plane he talks of God and God alone.

To talk of God only is an insignia that the mind of the man is on the fifth plane.

490. “He (Sadhu) renders services to all beings”.

By Mahayoga he transforms others spiritually into his own self in the shape of his own person.

As Sadhu is Perfect so the service rendered by him is the perfect one.

491. “As long as they (trees) are younger they are to be fenced around”.

The Life Power is awakening in a man in a feeble way. He should not ventilate it. He should be on his guard and nurture it so that it may grow.