RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

A day at Dakshineswar

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

March 1, 1885

576. “These house-holder devotees have got an attitude like that of Ravana who would enjoy the maidens of the Devahs and the Nagas and at the same time realize Rama”.

It is Vividisha and its promulgation and glorification.

Vividisha demands a strict renunciation of lust and gold. Ravana did not do so. But still he wanted to have Rama. Yes, he got Rama at the time of his death.

To get Rama – liberation at the time of death is no liberation. The Bliss of liberation is to be enjoyed during the lifetime. Liberation after death is but a superior imagination and a false consolation as there is no proof of it. It is but a great expectation based on high imagination – rather false. When a man is really liberated during the lifetime then he will be an Universal Man like ‘Diamond’ seen by thousands within them and it is real liberation – spiritual oneness with the rest of the humanity. Religion has its proof, otherwise it is high and poetic imagination! Lord, Lord, as I am real, this Universe is real, and so religion is also real, its proof is not to be given by an individual but en-masse.

577. “Is there any chance for the worthless babul tree to bear mangoes”?

Tree – human body.

Babul tree – It is a worthless tree as it does not bear any fruit, nor it can be used as timber. It is simply utilized as faggot.
Babul tree is that human body where emanation of the Atman does not take place.

Mango – Symbol of Brahmajnan.

When a man attains Brahmajnan he sees that somebody places a ripe mango on his palm and he eats it. It is so seen here by almost all men who have seen ‘Diamond’ within them. It is but symbolic Brahmajnan. Thakur often compared Brahmajnan with a ripe mango.

According to Vividisha almost all the men are so born that there will be no emanation of Atman in their body.

But we have experienced a different thing and that is there is no babul tree at all. Every tree is a mango tree as he sees ‘Diamond’ in him. Such is Mahayoga; of course, it is beyond the scope of the ordinary Rajayoga as the Mahayoga makes a babul tree to bear mangoes.

No shortcoming in a man can bar him to get a mango and to enjoy it. He may not attain the mango-tree – the Absolute Equality or become the Man in the Sun but he has every right to eat the mango, i.e. Abstract Equality or Hiranmaya Koshastha Brahma and thus equates ‘Oneness’ with the Man in the Sun.