RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

MARCH----1882

Place  :---Temple  of  Dakshineswar 

(Henceforth  Shri  Ramkrishna  will be  spoken  of  as

Thakur” when required  as  it is so  done in the  Gospel )

19 .  “Alas, he is not free, already married”!

Continence is an essential requirement for attaining God in the body. All animal passions are but obstructions to the way of God’s freeing and manifesting in the body

“The man who has renounced the pleasure enjoyed in the company of a wife, has really given up all the pleasures of the world”—Shri Ramkrishna .

Everything on the face of the earth takes place as God wills it . The man is fettered with a wife at the will of God . So in this case it appears that God’s grace is less. Had he been favoured by God there would have been no marriage at all for him .

20 . “Ah me ! He is not only married but has also got a child”.

 A son is born of me and it is reckoned as a second birth of my own body .

 “You, in another form, are your own son”—Shri Ramkrishna .

The full measure of your body has gone down at the birth of your child as he is come out from your body. It means a loss of potential power in you . So there will be very meager emanation of God in your body and you are not favored with all the knowledge of the sportive forms of God in you.

The body is required to be kept intact in an unsullied condition . Then there will be an emanation of God in the body in full measure . All the sportive forms of God will be seen . The mystery of life and death in connection with the world and everything else surrounding you will be solved . For instance, the world, you see, appears to be before your eyes. But really it is not so . You have seen God within you. Then you will come to see that this world in the God within you . Your knowledge of self-ego plus body is but a mirror and the world is reflected there. So you are seeing the world in the outside but it is exactly like a mirage—something not in existence but appears to be true and real.

21.  “Is she endowed with goodness (Vidya-sakti) or badness (Avidya-sakti)”.

Goodness is conscience, renunciation, of God etc.

                                          

Badness is to have a keen worldly attachment, to have more creature comforts, devoid of the sense of right and wrong .having no respect or regard for God etc .

God has manifested Himself in everybody in the form of life-force, and in some this life-force is tinged with goodness and in some again with badness .

Why there is such difference ?

It is predestination .

 What is predestination ?

It is very clearly exposed in the story of Prahlada in the Mahavarata, a mythology of India .

Prahlada was sent to school when he was but a mere child. He saw the first alphabet “K”and tears rolled down from his cheeks. (K is the first alphabet in the list of letters in India. Krishna, the name of God as described, starts with K). The alphabet K reminded Prahlada about Krishna. His love of God burst out seeing the simple letter K. Kiddy Prahlada was not aware anything of God. It did not matter with the child but tears came out spontaneously. The spontaneity signified predestination .

22 .  “   And you are blessed with knowledge”?

The man who has got knowledge of himself is called Jnani, who is he ?

The body must be in full-bloom-youth i.e. between 24 and 25 years of age .There will be no defect in the body. God in full measure will come out and accumulate in the cerebrum. God-the-Preceptor will point out and show God (Atma). Then succeeds various forms of God and they will annihilate time and space. Then comes the realization and consciousness from within that I am not body but I am God .

This state is attainment of knowledge and he who has attained this state is called a man of knowledge (Jnani). This is but the first stage of attaining knowledge as in full knowledge there remains no-ego-consciousness to give out “Not I, but Thou (God)”.

                                          

23.  “Yes, have you got faith in God with form or without form”?

 “God emanates from the body and is transformed into ‘no-ego-consciousness’ and again from “no-ego-consciousness’ comes God with form”—Shri Ramkrishna . (Nitya and Lila—from Lila to Nitya and Nitya to Lila) .

God with form is seen in the fourth sheath or the sixth plane . Here the devotee sees his God with form. You are a devotee of Jesus and if (God in you takes pity on you then He will come out from your body in the form of Jesus and you will see Him ; nay, you may even talk Him though not in all cases .

There is another form of higher realization of God with forms . Jesus you see before you but that Jesus will be transformed before your very eyes into Mary, and Mary again may change into Shri Ramkrishna and so on . It makes you conscious that there is one God but He appears in various forms .

God without form starts from seeing the Atma in the cerebrum till God, after various sportive forms, reaches and is transformed into ‘no-ego-consciousness’, and if God wills it then He may descend into divine consciousness only in give out—“Not, I, but Thou and Thou “.

24 .    “But cling to your own faith “.

If God makes one understand all about God then one understands what God is .

If God out of His own accord emanates and in the body and realization in full degree covers at every stage of transformation of the life-force to God then God is seen, understood and can be spoken of. Nobody knows who is God or what is God. If God makes Himself known to you then you are in a state to know .

RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

RELIGION  AND  REALIZATION

MARCH --1882

Place : -  Temple  of  dakshineswar

(Henceforth  Shri  Ramkrishna  will be  spoken  of  as

Thakur” when required  as  it is so  done in the  Gospel )

13)     “No, no evening prayer with rituals, Mine is not so.”

Evening prayer with rituals is but showy religion . It is for the beginners . Thakur was a master in the Supreme Culture—Brahma Vidya. All that was needed in his part was either to remember or to hear any attribute of God or to think of God and God would manifest in his body sometimes in half measure and sometimes in full, and the inner-self of Thakur would transform into God.No showy  religion can be performed by him who has attained God in him, as his inner- self will  transform into God no sooner he will remember Him .        

14)    “Who is this person of mold mine ? I feel an inclination attracting me to go back to him.

Is it possible for any one to achieve greatness without a thorough scholarly education”?

Lo, wonder! I would like coming again to him. Either to-morrow or day after, I shall be Coming again to him.”

 Shri M’s purification of mind started at the sight of Thakur—God in person . Shri M was thinking of Thakur. Thought of God would purify the mind and body. A winged insect of rain has seen the glow of fire . It is sure to come and jump in the fire . It is not the glow of fire but luster on a gem and it will not burn though a jump is taken in it .                                             

15    “He had a moleskin wrapper put on him .”

This is the first touch of description of Thakur in his ordinary life as given by Shri M.Thakur was a well-reputed monk (Sadhu-half of God emanated from the body), a saint (Sannayasi—the body and God separated). But he had neither matted hair, nor clean uniform of ochre colour, nor wooden sandal, nor a big staff, or a wooden water-pot nor any outward sign of a monk by which he might be recognized . He dressed and looked like an ordinary plain country gentleman . What sort of Paramhamsa was this ?

Thakur was the God incarnation of the era (Avatar) .

Every era has its own requirements . The life of Avatar (Incarnation of God) was the fulfillment of those requirements. Thakur led an ideal life of the era, keeping balance with the environment and as such, to teach others that His life would be followed.

It was the era of Buddha --------

Shri Buddha was seated. He had a dress put on him like that of a Buddhist monk. His whole body was covered with cloth of yellow colour. His disciples, the monks, had the same dress on .    

The world saw  Buddha and his monk-disciples . With an extreme reverence they paid their respect and homage to them but they kept aloof by standing at a distance and they eyed askance . The world did not dare approach them nor sat by them. Well, the Buddha and monks were gods—a different set of people and they were not meant for, nor did they belong to, the ordinary human race . Shri Buddha was for his monk, disciples and not for the world . My own dear one would be living my life . He had no necessity for such fine dress of ochre colour ---

Yes, it was Shri Sankar (Shri Shankaracharya—A.D. 788-820) with well-shaved head and face, dressed in ochre-coloured uniform from top to toe. Like a fountain his genius was showering sparkling water all around and his erudition and scholarship like another sun were shining and illurninating the horizon .

With all his glorious disciples Shri Sankar was found seated . There were Padmapada, Mandam Misra, Trotak and others . It was a mad thought to judge the superiority or inferiority in them .

It was an amazing sight to the world—Shri Sankar with his disciples . The human race with all their reverence bowed down to them and went by with a sigh of grief thinking that this life of Shri Sankar and his disciples was never meant for them, as it was impossible for them to get the talents, achievements and self-assertions of Sankar and his disciples. The human race left them and went after pondering within that God was simply for Sankar and his disciples and not for ordinary man----

Shri Ramanuja appeared in the arena after some two hundred years and a new edition of Sankar ; besides, there was a severe strict rigidity in him .

With equal reverence showed to Sankar, the human race bowed down to Ramanuja and went by . They could not find any link between their life and the life of Ramanuja. They approached him with great expectation but they found that it was not for them--- 

      

Place-“-PURI” in Orissa .

15) Look there  :  There was Shri Chaitanya sealed . He was talking about Radha’s (a female devotee) love for Shri Krishna to his own devotees .

He looked like both Jupiter and Cupid combined together . But simply he had a torn rag on his loins . To attain God by self-exertion (Vividisha) through privations and cynicism was introduced by Buddha and Sankar ; but it was not so prominent with them as it was practiced and followed with rigid principle by Shri Chaitanya  in his own life .

The world was the magnetic and dazzling figure of Shri Chaitanya . But from a distance, mangave up a sigh, lost his heart and went by . Only in passed in his mind—“Alack ! he is not mine”.------

Thakur had a wrapper on his body and sleepers on his feet ; yes, he attained God in accordance with the outlined principles of the Vedanta (Paramahansa) .

Shri M brought back hope in the mind of the humanity by this description of Thakur who was not unlike a plain and simple man his daily dress like others .

In winter I put on a wrapper on my body and sleepers on my feet . Thakur led a life—a very similar life like that of mine. But Thakur attained God. How am I to do so ?

Yes, there is expectation and hope for every one us . We must be remembering the announcement made by Thakur—“Uncle Moon is everyone’s uncle.” God is for everybody. (Moon in India is a man and not a woman like Diana of Roman mythology).

Thakur attained God and through his grace I shall be attaining God also .

16)     “With whom shall I talk to, when I go to Calcutta if Keshab dies ?”

 God expresses Himself in and through a devotee . He creates a true devotee by giving him His grace. Thakur took a liking on Keshab (Keshab Chandra Sen was founder and leader of a Brahmo Sect), gave him his (Thakur’s) grace and Keshab saw God in the form of Kali ; so he acknowledged the existence of Kali . Shri Keshab was a real devotee ; so Thakur had a deep affection for him .

17)   “Well, do you know one Mr. Cook is come ? It he lecturing out here ?”

Thakur was perfectly sure that lectures cold not render any help to make a see God .

Lectures are but temporary measures . The people will no doubt listen to you with all attention but they are sure to forget it in no time . It does not leave a permanent stamp on the audience . No action will be produced in the body of the audience if the lecture has got no commandment from the God . “If God frees Himself from the body then there is liberation (Mukti)”—and it means religion .

18)  “The brother of Pratap did came here . He stopped with me for some days, he was out of employment . He told me that he wanted to live with me . I came to learn that he left his family at his father-in-law’s place . His family is a big one and a whole brood of them .He was taken to task for this .Just a fancy ! He is the head of such a big family ! Will his neighbour feed his children, take care of them and bring them up ? Is he not ashamed that his wife and children are maintained by somebody else and they have been left in an uncared condition in his father-in-law’s place ? He had a severe scolding from me and I asked him to pick up a job . Then he was induced to leave this place”.

Here is a sketch chalked out by Thakur for an ordinary man to lead his life . He must be carning his own livelihood ; if he is a family man he must be maintaining his family and at the same time he must be praying to be a real devotee and love God . “A gentle breeze shakes a leaf of a tree . God with it, and the leaf is shaken”.

Pratap’s brother is encumbered with a family. It is so ordained and it has turned out to be so . But he comes to Thakur ; that is, he has got an inclination of love to God . Yes, it is so ; let him earn his livelihood, maintain I is family and let him love God at the same time . This is Thakur’s injunction on Pratap’s brother.

Let us scan here a bit of Thakur’s own life . What did he himself do at the outset ? He came in the temple of Dakshineswar and took up the work of worshipping the Divine Mother Kali and he had a fixed pay for it . Then a through change came over him both within and without . The proprietor of Dakshineswar temple granted him a pension .

Thakur himself used to say, “I live on person”.