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 )

504. “An ant had been to a hillock of sugar. Did it need the whole hillock? A grain or two of sugar was sufficient”.

It is so spoken by Thakur of the Jivakoty or ordinary man.

Ant – is the symbol of Jivakoty.

Hillock of Sugar – the seventh plane.

An ordinary man reaching the seventh plane merges in it and does not return. Such a case has not yet been seen or heard of in our experience.

With us, we are ‘One’ in the spiritual world as it has been so declared by thousands comprising men, women, old, youths, children – the age varies from 92 to 4 years. As such, no question of Jivakoty or Iswarkoty arises here.

The greatest blunder which is made in the dualism is the creation of Jivakoty and Iswarkoty. This distinction between man and man in the atmic sphere is but a false data. In the Universalism Diamond is seen by one all proving the data ‘Thou art All’. The question of Jivakoty and Iswarkoty does not arise.

505. “Ours is the case of typhoid”.

A typhoid patient gets delirium. His idea in the brain runs amok. When a man thinks that he is the ‘body’ he is under delirium; whereas, in fact, he is Atman and to have it finished with the declaration of Jajnavalkya, the Rishi or sage of Brihad-Aranyaka Upanishad to Usasta (the other sage), “Your soul is the inner self of all beings”.

Typhoid is really cured when a living man attains Brahmahood and becomes ‘Universalle-La’-Homme”.

506. “Like disease, like remedy”.

The only remedy of the disease is to take shelter at the lotus feet of God. These feet are seen. It is a convalescent condition. The typhoid may relapse. The safety zone is the seventh plane where again these feet are seen. It is called Parama Pada, the highest stage.

An aspirant may come down to the lower stage from the sixth plane but if he obtains the stage Parama Pada then there is no slip.

Parama Pada is the symbol of Paramatman or the Universal Atman in an individual aspirant.

But when one is actually transformed into Paramatman or Universal Atman or Self and he must be a man alive, then he will be seen by thousands within their own bodies. Now Buddha or Jesus or Ramkrishna is seen within; it is but Brahmalin condition; that is, they are merged in Brahma – a living man, and Thakur’s ‘Ma’ and ‘Ra’, God and the Universe within as realized, explains the things.

507. “Your entire responsibility will be His and He shall see to it”.

God in the form of God-the-Preceptor will appear within the body, i.e. as Satchidananda Guru and everything else will follow. The form of God-the-Preceptor should be the form of a living man and that is the best.

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 )

502. “He effaces ego in one or two”.

In the era of Thakur we find one, and that is Thakur and the term two is used simply to denote humility.

“A ghost cannot seek out a comrade”. – Sri Ramkrishna

Ghost – is Brahmajnani, i.e. he is no more a man made of five elements, but he is Atman.

Atman - is One and there is no comrade for Him.

This is in case of an individual realization.

But in the Universalism it bears a different character and proof.

A man becomes Brahma. He is seen by thousands; nay, he is in every human being somewhere manifested, and in others – though they are the majority – in an un-manifested condition. When a man is one with all the living men in his inner self, the egoism automatically collapses. Egoism has its birth from the sense of difference and many.

503. “Nobody can really know God”.

God has innumerable attributes – some are known but the majority is unknown. We know God with attributes but God without attributes (Nirguna Brahma) is not known and unfathomable.

“No discourse can be held with Nirguna” – Sri Ramkrishna

The great Swami Vivekananda pointed out, “Where there is evolution there is involution”.

Yes, involution at the time of birth but enfoldment of the Life Power is evolution and this Life Power gives out more knowledge (Jnana) as it advances along with time.

As for instance, Thakur is the first man in the arena of the world to point out that to see God and attainment of Godhead are the sole aim of this human life; whereas, all the past teachers of the world give out moral codes for leading pious and holy life. As for Buddha, Nirvana is not in the lifetime, but at the time of death.

Attainment of God means to become God and its proof will be borne by thousands.

In the Upanishad it is declared “I am Brahma”, but no proof is set up; nay, it goes further and declares “I am All”. But it is declared by one and not by thousands. It failed to set up any proof.

It is Universalism which bears proof and not Individualism.

A man becomes God and there is no other God anywhere else; rather everything else in relation to God is but pure imagination. He is One and One only, and this Oneness as experienced by thousands taking place with Diamond is the only attribute. It is so endorsed in the Vedas – Ekam Sat – Sa Ekah.