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 )

Friday, April 24, 1885

595. “Filled with restlessness, she cannot keep her dress arranged”.

Dress – body.

The awakened Life Power proceeds upward and makes her forgetful of the body. Radha is a lady and a lady is to keep her body well covered; but Radha fails here, i.e. she has become forgetful of her body. It is so with a Yogi. He forgets his physical sheath. Thakur sometimes in high mood used to go naked.

596. “Her jewels have fallen off; she trembles every now and then”.

The proper reading should be:

“She is in a sitting posture and shudders every now and then; her ornaments from the body fall off”.

Shudders – sometimes Life Power becomes more powerful and brings about shuddering.

Yes, trembling is also an insignia of Yogic Vibhuti (expressions over the body) but it is of inferior quality. Shuddering is looked upon as a Samadhi in a lesser degree.
Ornaments – inside ties of the body.

Every now and then the Life Power is marching to the cerebrum and coming down again and it makes the passage easy by removing the inward obstructions and making the nerves strong enough to withstand the force of the Life Power.

597. “Alas, she is so young! A princess born, and a wife besides”.

The proper reading should be:

“Alas, she is tender! A princess born and a lady of the Zenana besides”.

She – causal body.

Tender – newly grown.

Princess – daughter of a king.

The term ‘king’ may be read from two different aspects – (i) Self and (ii) human body. The causal body may come in Descent and it may come out in Ascent.

A lady of the Zenana – not unlike a woman of the Zenana (harem) the causal body remains confined within. (The harem system was introduced into India some 400 years before when Chandidas flourished). Here Chandidas compares the causal body with the lady of the harem.

598. “What is it that she craves? We do not understand her mind”.

The proper reading should be:

What is her design? What tempts her? What makes her to do the pretensions”?

Design – no design at all. It is the nature of Life Power when awakened to express this Yogic Vibhuti.

Tempts her – the nature of the causal body is to get transformed into God. It is an urge and not temptation.

Pretentions – no pretention at all. It is a layman’s ignorant remark. Chandidas, the poet and aspirant both, points out all these Yogic Vibhutis in a light tone of jeer, looking upon himself as a comrade of Radha.