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 )

500. “From the involution (Absolute) to the evolution (Phenomenal world) and again from the evolution to the involution”.

From the involution to the evolution – It means seeing of Atman in the cerebrum and then to see the Universe within this Atman.

From the evolution to the involution – It means transformation of the big Universe into a Seed and Seed into a Dream and then the Dream is succeeded by no-ego-existence. It is individual and a rare one.

There is another form of realization and this is realized by one and all, i.e. Universal.

A man becomes God but spiritually, as otherwise physically he is but a man like you.

He is seen within by thousands. The man seen within by thousands becomes Absolute and seers see the Leela (Sportive forms) within.

According to the Isha Upanishad, the man seen is the ‘Man-in-the-Sun’ and seers see Him in their own ‘gold-sheath’ (Hiranmaya Kosha).

Sun is the symbol of Life Power in the seventh plane and some 30 men and women have seen ‘Diamond’ so within them.

It may be taken as Plato’s ‘Absolute Equality’ and Abstract Equality’.

Five of the Upanishads: (1) Brihad-Aranyaka, (2) Chandogya, (3) Maitri, (4) Taittiriya and (5) Isha point out the ‘man in the Sun’. It is but Macrocosm; whereas, the thing actually takes place in the microcosm. The plain meaning is not in the outside world but in the human body. ‘The sun’ and the ‘Man-in-the Sun’ are seen. It is so experienced here by many but within their own cerebrum and reported to ‘Diamond’. And they are some 30 or more. Even now it is running.

501. “He (Atman) who is seen and shown by God-the-Preceptor as God has become this Universe and its living beings”.

It means ‘Ra’ of Thakur – the Universe with all its contents within Atman seen in the seventh plane, i.e. Viswarupa.

‘Ma’ first and then comes ‘Ra’. God first and then the Universe.

But the Universe is before the very eye of one and all. How does it come? Man is Brahma or creator. He creates the Universe. At the time of opening the eyes for the first time he casts this Universe from within and then comes on the earth. It takes place at the time of his birth. Thakur says, “In the Vedas it is spoken of the spider and its cob-web. The spider casts the web from within and then rests on it”.

Spider – is man – living Brahma.

Cob-web – is the Universe.

It is an individual realization and no proof can be set up for it.

The secondary proof is Ra.

It can be set forth from Thakur’s own life. In the house of Balaram Bose. Thakur was in Samadhi after an earthquake. When he came down from Samadhi he said, “Do you know what realization was going through me? The Universe was looked like a Shalagram Sila (a round small shining marble stone worshipped as God by the Hindus as a symbol of the Universe in miniature) with your two opened eyes fixed in it (the eyes of Sri ‘M’ who was addressed)”.

In other occasion he said, “I see a small Shalagram Sila in every man”.