RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

The Master with Sri Keshab

At

Dakshineswar and other places.

Saturday, January 1, 1881

(Henceforth Shri Ramkrishna will be spoken of as Thakur” when required as it is so done in the Gospel )

539. “It is so, that a pearl oyster is in readiness for the rain coming down from the star ‘Swati’. It takes a drop of rain, dives deep in the fathomless ocean, stops there until the pearl grows”.

Pearl – is Atman.

Oyster – is the cerebrum.

 with Nirguna Brahma.

The drop of the rain in the form of God’s grace comes out in the proper time as Atman, and it is shown by God-the-Preceptor. The first and foremost thing is to obtain the grace of God and it comes spontaneously. A real aspirant sees such rainfall many a time in his life and it denotes that more and more grace is coming upon him.

Grace should be looked upon as spontaneous. It makes a man – Universalle-La’-Homme.

It becomes the true insignia of grace, as Universalism is the summum bonum.

540. “Whom God makes great, let him live in a forest but he shall be known to many”.

Yes, it is so. God is in every being and in man He manifests in a degree.

God in a man will appear in the form of the very same man whom He wants to be made known i.e. publicity. It is a wonder, in its connection, vide our ‘Preface’ and furthermore it signifies that the man has become God or attained Godhead.

541. “The flowers bloom in the dense forest and the bees search and find them out”.

The saying has got two aspects. One is ‘Individualism’ and the other is ‘Universalism’.

1) Individualism – Thakur is at Dakshineswar and the devotees flock there.

(a) Thakur is flower

(b) The devotees are bees.

2) Universalism –

(a) When a man attains Godhood, He becomes a bee.

(b) The devotees are flowers.

Flowers are seen to bloom by the aspirants in the seventh plane and in the seventh plane of the devotees this Universal Man or Paramatman or Parama Purusha or Paramahansa – in its true yogic sense, i.e. the shape of a person who will be seen within by thousands appears.

It is said in the Vedas that Brahma in order to taste His own sweetness has become many. The devotees are many and God is but One. So devotees are flowers and God is a bee.

Forest – is this human body and this simile is current from the days of yore.