RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

A day at Dakshineswar

Saturday, April 5, 1884

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

553. “A man must be renouncing everything, then his teaching will be accepted by all”.

Renouncing everything – It is Vividisha. No renouncement can be made by self-exertion. Yes, he may give up everything, but yet he has got to eat. The time honored custom of living on alms was discarded by Thakur. He accepted the post of a priest and then a pension. His life recommends an honest living for one and all. He opened a new era in the spiritual world for one and all. An extraordinary phase of his life is painted herewith. Was he a Paramahansa or a Babu? No Paramahansa was ever seen throughout the length and breadth of India in an ordinary dress of a Bengali gentleman, yet he was a Paramahansa. Even a man like Gouri Pundit Jeered him saying, “Hallow, where are you Paramahansa Babu”? His dress announces that a Paramahansa does not require any special dress. Everyday dress is sufficient.

‘Renouncing everything’ in the yoga means separation of body and the Self. When true and actual separation comes within, this Paramahansa becomes an Universal Self when he will be seen by thousands within their own bodies.

The actual meaning of the term Paramahansa is that whose spiritual self in the shape of his own image travels from one human body to another human body. Renouncement cannot follow, succeed, establish, or prove itself without being Universal.

Teaching will be accepted – Whosoever used to come to ‘Diamond’, he used to say, “Well, God is within you. He will assume a form and shall teach you”. The result used to be that the man so addressed got ‘Diamond’ either in dream, or in trance, or in meditation, or as a man alive in an awakened condition. This seeing of ‘Diamond’ within, declares renouncement and teaching both combined and its acceptance is announced by the seers.

554. “Adhyatma Ramayana contains only statements of Jnan and Bhakti”.

It does not mean harmony. There are statements of Jnan and Bhakti in the Adhyatma Ramayana and it means the author has placed the Semitic cult and the Eternal cult of the evolution of the Life Power in the human body side by side. The former is self-imposed and the latter is natural; nay a bit more, the real revelation of the Self. Semitic cult is the ‘set-up Siva’. Evolution of the Life Power is the ‘Siva coming up piercing the womb of the earth’ (Muladhar in the body). It is called the Aryan cult.