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 )

523. “Everybody will get God but He must appear within”.

The Bengali word ‘antarik’ used here by Thakur literally means ‘within the heart’.

It is a yogic term. On the surface it transpires to be sincerity and earnestness but in the yoga, it means automatic revelation of the self in the inside of the body. The term has got double meanings – superficial and another cryptical.

“Sastras (religious treatises) have double meaning – one according to the popular sense of the word and the other according to the realizations taking place within”.

– Sri Ramkrishna

It carries the sense that any and every member of the human race is born to be transformed into God, provided he gets spontaneous manifestation of God within his own physical body.

524. A. “By chance some blind men came near an elephant. The animal was introduced to them as elephant. The blind men felt the elephant by parts only such as pillar, tail, winnowing-fan, etc. Their version varied”.

B. “Once a man had been in a forest and saw a chameleon on a tree. He saw it red. He came back and told his friends that he saw a wonderful red animal on a tree in the forest. The friends differed with him in respect to the color of the animal. To one it was violet; to another it was blue; to some it was scarlet; and so on”.

The above two metaphors bear the stamp of dualism. It evinces that dualism gives birth to all discords and disagreements. It had its origin in a partial realization. It is proved that it is more a curse than a bliss as it is an error in realization; but it is emphatically declared that it is right and correct.

“Mother! No clock keeps correct time, but everyone thinks that his clock is right. To have one’s clock correctly adjusted, one must get it tallied with the sun”.

– Sri Ramkrishna

‘To get tallied with the sun’ means that there is one sun and that one sun is seen by all, and so when a man becomes Brahma, He is seen by all in the inside of the body. The clock of everyone tallies and goes right.

All disagreements and discords vanish.

‘Man in the sun’ sets up attainment of Brahmahood and is an open declaration of the Universal Man.

525. “But you are at liberty to say that for some devotees God assumes a perennial (eternal) form”.

Perennial (eternal) form – The form of a man made of God’s Light and it is seen by thousands. He is Parama Brahma – ‘Man in the Sun’ as declared in the Chandogya Upanishad and the seer of the Man in the Sun is called as Brahma in the golden chamber of the cerebrum (Brahma of the Hiranmaya Kosha). But both Man in the sun and the seer are but One and it is so declared by the Rishi of the Upanishad. It is de facto. It is seen in the seventh plane and not in the outside. It is termed as ‘Absolute Equality’ and ‘Abstract Equality’ by Plato.

‘Man in the Sun’ – sun signifies Life Power in a man. Life Power is eternal in a man. This Life Power in the cerebrum assumes the form of the man who has attained God, i.e. who has become God. It will be seen by many and they will declare it. In other words, the man, who becomes God, turns to be the Life Power of the Universe. Seeing Him in the Sun denotes it.