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 )

Visit to Vidyasagar
Saturday, August 5, 1882.

532. “The macrocosm in the form of microcosm in the womb of the Mother”.

Mother – is this very body. Yes, ‘I’ or ego is the son to body. Body bears this ‘I’, as a mother carries her child. The exact relation of the body and ‘I’ is that of mother and baby.

Womb – is cerebrum or the seventh plane where in the Jara Samadhi this vast Universe appears as a seed – i.e. microcosm; and macrocosm is Ra of Thakur; when the Universe is seen within this Atman. It is Viswarupa.

533. “I, by being a dwarf, shall hold the moon”.

Moon – is the symbol of devotion. In the Chetan Samadhi an aspirant sees the moon in the cerebrum.

‘I’ or egoism has become a dwarf, that is, ‘I’-ness has lessened. More the ego diminishes, more the realizations come.

534. “(Line of a song) – “Withhold me from deliverance”.

Almost all the people of India (Hindus of course) are being pursued to believe in getting liberation after death. It is an eyewash and smells sophistry. Liberation must be attained in this life or it has no value. According to the ‘Sachhanda Darshan’ (the philosophy of the spontaneous revelation), no sooner God in the body assumes a form it is visualized by the man; it is Immediate Liberation – Sadya mukti.

535. “Yet, on with your march. A wood-cutter had been to a forest to have wood. He met a Brahmachari. The latter told him, ‘Go forward’! The injunction was obeyed. Everything further on in the forest, he discovered a group of sandal-wood tress. After a few days, a reflection came upon him; he said to himself, ‘Well, the holy man asked me to march forward’. He advanced and found a silver-mine. Further on, and he found a gold-mine. Going on and on, and he found mines of precious stones and diamonds”.

March – it is to be taken up in the process of yoga in the body. Kundalini or Life Power marches on to the seventh plane.

Wood-cutter – An aspirant (Sadhak).

Forest – human body – Deharanya.

To have wood – more realizations by penetrating the body.

Brahmachari – God-the-Preceptor. The woodcutter found his God-the-Preceptor within his own body.

Sandal-wood tree – Subtle body.

Silver-mine – Causal body.

Gold-mine – the cerebrum or the seventh plane. It is called Hiranmaya Kosha (the golden plane) in the Upanishad.

Precious Stones – other innumerable realizations such as – Viswarupa, a Seed, Chaitanya, Tattvajnan, etc.

Diamond – Godhead.

536. “In the coffers of Varuna, there are countless gems. But the king Varuna is not aware of them”.

Coffers – human body. Varuna in the Indian mythology is described as king of water. Water is seen in the Pranamaya Kosha. There the water represents the collected Life Power. Again, it is seen in the seventh plane and here it represents Brahma. Strange that these things are seen. It is so charming and wonderful! Ultimately it transpires that Varuna is nobody else but every man.

Varuna – In later period of the Vedic literature, Varuna became identical with Brahma. It was so announced by the Rishis that man was Brahma. So Varuna, Brahma and man become identical.

The plain meaning is that a man is not aware of the latent capacity of his Life Power, or in short, a man does not know that he is Brahma. He is one with the whole human race in the spiritual world and its proof is discussed in the preface of this book and it bespeaks of “Unity in Diversity”.