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 )

514. “Incarnation of God is sought by the followers of devotion (Bhaktas)”.

It is Dravidian or Semitic culture.

“Siva is set up here by self-exertion”. – Sri Ramkrishna

Really it can never be done and it is very weak and defective.

It is never accepted and acknowledged in the Vedas because it does not bear any proof. Furthermore Godhood cannot be obtained by self-exertion.

515. “The sun rises and the lotus blooms”.

Sun – Sun of Knowledge, when divinity in a man is manifested in the seventh plane.

Lotus – Symbol of the cerebrum. Both sun and lotus are seen in the seventh plane.

Knowledge is compared here with lotus for its purity and beauty. Knowledge is pure as it is divine knowledge and divinity is the most beautiful. As sun is one and incomparable, so “Knowledge is One” – Ekam Sat, like the sun in the azure sky and beatitude in itself.

516. “Is it possible for one and all to get collected in the seventh plane – the Indivisible Existence – Knowledge – Bliss Absolute”?

Here it is spoken of Atman. The Life Power pervading through and through the body is collected and held in the cerebrum. It is not a question of comprehension. It is seen and shown by God-the-Preceptor.

It is the rarest thing which happens in a man’s life. No report with proof has yet reached the humanity; as about it, with its proof is spoken in the Vedas.

In Brihad-Aranyaka Upanishad, Jajnavalkya declared that Atman should be visualized, but he did not declare that he saw Atman.

In Svetasvatara Upanishad, Svetaketu declared that he saw the ‘Purusha’ behind the darkness; but this is not Atman.

Zoroaster of Persia did not declare seeing of the Atman.

No mention of Atman has ever been made in the Babylonian or Assyrian religion.

From Moses and Buddha and down to Sri Chaitanya none announced the seeing of Atman, save and except Sri Ramkrishna who with all emphasis declared the seeing of Atman.

Here a difficulty crops up in his emphatic declaration, as seeing of the Atman is immediately followed by seeing the seer of Atman by innumerable people within their own bodies irrespective of caste, creed, or anything else. It is so depicted in the Vedas when the globe was half enveloped in the darkness of ignorance.

We find in our everyday experience the very identical Cosmic Law still stands good and runs the same course as it was with the Rishis in the days of yore.