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 )
517.
“Bharadwaja and other Rishis eulogized Rama and spoke – Oh Rama, you are that
Indivisible Existence–Knowledge–Bliss Absolute. You have come down to us as a
man. In fact, you have enveloped yourself with your Maya (Illusion), so you
look like a man”.
Here
the mythological idea of an Avatar is given and not the Yogic form. The idea is
that God is in Heaven – an unknown world situated far, far away and let you lose
the rein of your imagination but Heaven is still far away and there is no end
of it. One fine morning in the gay month of May he thought to come down as a
man for enjoying sports in the midst of the human race. Then followed the
‘Immaculate Conception’. In course of time the human race gets an Avatar. It is
of Dravidian and Semitic origin and later on when Hinduism was created and
flourished it was accepted and given Publicity through various channels to
misguide and to rule over the people.
The
Aryan culture or Sanatan Dharma (spontaneous revelation of Life Power) is very
simple and confined in the Physical body of a man. It is based on the Rajayoga
and then it is succeeded by the Mahayoga. The former is ‘Individualism’ (Byesti
– individual) and the latter is ‘Universalism’ (Samasti – Universal). Both of
them come and flourish spontaneously in a man. It is taught by
God-the-Preceptor before the disciple has the least knowledge of the thing;
nay, the recipient of the teachings does not hear the word even. Then follows a
galaxy of realizations until a man gets the Manikin form within him and it has
been declared as an Avatar or Incarnation of God and not God Himself yet. Here
ends Avatarbad.
“In
a man there is a Manikin form”. –
Sri Ramkrishna
Then
follows Godhead or Brahma.
Up
to Avatar there is no outward proof of the attainment, save and except, you
have got to believe. But when a man becomes Brahma, the proof will be borne by
the human race and it is very assertive and positive as they shall see Him
within their own bodies; they shall hear the seeing of the same from their
wife, sons, daughters, father, mother, brothers, friends and neighbors.
It
is but evolution of the Life Power.
518.
“Bharadwaja and other eleven Rishis were great devotees of Rama”.
These
Rishis were creations of imaginations in the mythology to carry out the
publicity of the cult of devotion with a tinge of the Aryan cult.
The
later period of the Hinduism was but a happy mixture of Non-Aryanism,
Dravidianism, Buddhism and Aryan culture in a drop.
The
pure culture of the Aryan was the self-evolution of the Life Power and it was
meant for the whole human race, i.e. Universal.
519.
“They (the Rishis – twelve in number) had a permanent love for God”.
The
yogic form of this type of love is known very easily. At the first sight the
devotee will look like his Ishta and it will be so declared by the seer.
Suppose a devotee of Buddha is seen and the seer will see him like Buddha and
he will declare it at once, “What, are you Buddha born again”? It so happened
with Thakur and Mathur Babu (a great devotee of Thakur and the son-in-law of
Rani Rasmani – the owner of the temple of Dakshineswar). Mathur Babu was in the
verandah of the garden-house adjacent to the room of Thakur. Thakur was loitering
in the verandah of his own room. The sight was distinct and clear to Mathur
Babu. He saw at the front side of Thakur, there was no Thakur but the goddess
of the temple and on his back, it was Siva. Mathur Babu could not control
himself; he came down being highly agitated, fell down at the feet of Thakur
and said, “Father, I have come to know you! You are nobody else, but the
goddess of the temple has come to us. I have seen it with my own eyes”.
This
is supreme love for God. But it is Individualism and it cannot render any high
services to the cause of the humanity. It is a rare thing and it can hardly be
obtained; and even if it manifests, it remains confined in the individual.
