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 )

492. “When the trunk of the tree grows thick and strong, the fencing is removed”.

When Life Power or Kundalini is awakened in full measure, no further precaution is required.

493. “Now if an elephant is tied to the tree, the elephant cannot break it”.

Elephant – is the symbol of mind. Life Power or Kundalini when awakened controls the mind.

494. “First besmear your hands with oil and then break open the Jackfruit”.

Oil – is the symbol of Chaitanya or yogic consciousness as seen in the cerebrum and it flares up emitting brilliant red light.

Jackfruit – is the world. It yields a flavored sweet juice. The world is full of temptations and allurements. If this yogic consciousness is attained, the temptation and allurements will fail to bewitch the attainer. His body and Atman separates. He becomes Atman, remains aloof, and nothing can tarnish him.

To add to it, the metaphor of Jackfruit reminds one of the five sheaths as realized in the human body as pointed out in the Vedas.

495. “A man of ‘Discrimination’ (Viveka) knows that God is Real and everything else is unreal”.

Discrimination is Viveka – the capacity to discriminate between real and unreal.

A man gets discrimination after coming down from the Jara Samadhi. He will be firmly established in it. Every turn and every effort of his life will be directed towards God. In short, he lives for God and God alone as evinced in the life of Thakur. This is Viveka.

496. “Being established in discrimination one wants to know God”.

To have established is discrimination means to see God in the seventh plane as otherwise no discrimination can come out. After seeing God or Atman, the sense that ‘I am Atman’ and ‘not this body’ springs up automatically and this is real discrimination.

To know God – means to know the attributes or nature of God. Yes, a man sees God as pointed out and spoken out by God-the-Preceptor but the seer is not aware of any attribute of God. Then comes automatic enfoldment of Atman or God.

“If Atman, out of grace unfolds Himself”. – Sri Ramkrishna

Atman unfolds Himself in the five following ways as pointed out in the realization of the Vedanta. They are: –

(1) To see God or Atman.

(2) To see the Universe within this Atman.

(3) This big Universe turns into a Seed or Jara Samadhi.

(4) The existence of the Seed appears to be a Dream.

(5) This Dream is succeeded by Sthitha Samadhi.