ONE AND ONENESS BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

The Vedic Truth and Sri Ramkrishna as a Hindu

18. Sri Ramkrishna says: – “Yes, a book named ‘Ashtavakra Samhita’ contents deal with the knowledge of the self. Thus a man of knowledge of the self given out – ‘I am He’, that is, ‘Paramatma’. This principle is followed by the ‘Sannyasins’ of the Vedanta school. But it is never a right path or corrupt principle to be followed by the house-holder”.

Ashtavakra Samhita is a treatise of self-knowledge or Atmajnana. It is meant for one and all. It is written with the sole purpose of conveying the true knowledge of the Self to the humanity so that they may have the true light and may be enlightened. They may conduct themselves in accordance with the principle of the book and come to know that they are Brahma and one. It deals only with individualism.

Sri Ramkrishna urges vehemently that this book is meant solely for the Sannyasins and not for the common people. Let the householders and common people follow the path of dualism and remain in darkness forever. This distinction between a Sannyasin and householder was declared as false and was openly denounced within a short time after the disappearance of Sri Ramkrishna from this world, in a public lecture in America by Swami Vivekananda. He addressed the Americans as “Thou art That”. It means “Man is Brahma”. No distinction exists between aSannyasin (monk) and a householder. Brahmahood belongs to every man.

Lord Buddha, Lord Gouranga and Sri Ramkrishna and amongst all the religious reformers of India brought about this distinction between a monk and a commoner and it was advocated, introduced and followed very rigidly creating a band of aristocrats in the eye of man and God alike in the realm of oneness. In a nutshell, the injunction was that the common people would serve these ‘Sannyasins’, ‘Shramanas’, and ‘Vairagis’ (monk of the Vaishnava sect), themselves remaining in darkness as ignoramuses.

It transpires that what Sri Ramkrishna advocates, Swami Vivekananda denounces.

(ii) The Vedic revelation rests with the principle that he whom nature selects as its own is endowed with this “Para Vidya” and through him this wonderful “Oneness” is distributed through the agency of five elements as it is nature’s creation and a natural demand of the humanity to be united into “One” while alive and thus to make ‘One World’ in the Atmic Sphere. Nature demands it and nature creates it.