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 )

29.               “Always  remember  God  and  talk  His  glories”.

Shri Chaitanya always used to repeat the name of God, Krishna, (Nobody knows the real name of God . Aseribe any name to God and pray with sincerity and the response is sure to come.

You will find that God will come out in the form as described by you and He will talk with you). This Continuous repetitions of God’s name will bring the tongue in touch with the roof of the palate.

This soft hurt between the tongue and the palate will create and start Yoga—transformation . God is in the body in a dormant condition. He is to be awakened ; in other words, manifestation of God may come in this way . There are two points in the body from where the transformation may start . Softly to clap one’s hands and utter God’s name or to repeat God’s name and thereby the tongue will continually touch the roof of the mouth . “Both in the morning and evening repeat God’s name by clapping your hands”—Shri Ramkrishna.

30 .                Every  now  and  then  pay  a  visit  to  God’s  devotees  or  holy  men”.

Who is a holy man? By a single utterance of God’s name the man who gets himself transformed into God is a holy man. In meditation a man is transformed into God but it is a slow measure. To be transformed into God at every moment denotes perpetuity to remain in the state of being God.

The man who has seen God is also a holy man but not in full measure .

 Who is a devotee ? The man who has seen the manikin form of God (Manus Ratan—vide, Foreward, Page 34) in him and carries the Manus Ratan all along his body is a devotee.

 God is in the body, and in the body He Himself assumes the form of a devotee and repeats the name of God by clapping His hands. And here, God, God’s name, and the devotee meet, unite and become a triad (Avatar).           

 31.                  “A maid in the household of a rich man is very particular to do her

                      duties but her mind is fixed on her own home in the native villag .”

                      Maid---is body.

                      Household of a rich man---is this world.

                      Own home---is God.

You are a mere spectator and passerby in this world of grandeur and you should be remembering that you have come from God and you belong to God and you must return to God.

32.             “ First get your hand besmeared with the oil of divine consciousness and then set

                      you hands to other work in the world “

                      Oil---is the symbol of Bhakti in the first instance .

                      Oil---is Chaitamya or Divine Consciousness in the second instance . The last symbol of Chaitanya is honey ; and Chaitanya itself looks like a brilliant red light . The oil of divine conscious-ness is Chaitanya, that is , Tattajnan (no ego-consciousness but a perpetual consciousness of God).

 For a man to live in this state is merely to live for speaking about the manifestation of God already realized and seen and furthermore to witness God’s all other sportive forms which are to come.

33 .               “If you like to have butter, then you let milk set into curd in a by-place .

                       If milk is shaken every now and then, it won’t turn into curd .Next ,you

                       set aside all other work, sit alone in a secluded retreat and before the

                       sun rises you must churn milk. Then only butter may he had”.            

                            Butter---means God, Atma.

Let milk set into curd in a by-place—means to be along. The mind is to be withdrawn from the world and to be kept confined in the body. You must not see such thing, touch such thing and hear such voice as may agitate your mind and create the least disturbance in your blood . If these bindings are not rigidly observed then milk will not turn into curd.

Before the sun rises---means within 25 years. In full-bloom-youth, (i.e., 25 years) the butter comes out the body must be in an unsullied condition, both inside as well as outside ; the age must be within twenty five ; you must be giving away the body i.e., you must be separating from the body and get your animal life transformed into God and for good.

Kundalini or life–power is the churning rod. She makes her way into the cerebrum and by soft dancing softens the cerebrum making room for God and ultimately God comes out.

34 .           “If the butter is placed in water of the world then it will not mix

                  But it will keep on floating”.

This state is obtained in Tattajnan when no ego-consciousness exists and divine consciousness  of ‘Thou’ and ‘Thou’ predominates .

35 .            “Is there any possibility of seeing God”?

Yes God with form and without form is seen in multifarious aspects. Its start is to see and get God-the-Preceptor (Satchidamananda Gura) in the body.

You adore a certain form and ascribe the form to God. God will assume the form and He will appear to you with the form. It is seeing God.

God-the-Preceptor is showing you the Atma, God. It is seeing God.

The world is seen within the Atma, God. It is seeing God . Thi8s Universe is again changed into a seed. It is seeing God . The seed in its turn again changes into a dream. It is seeing God .

Next succeeds the unknown and unknowable region. Here comes a temporary lull in the realization as no-ego-consciousness rules or exists.

Again when consciousness comes back it is divine consciousness and it cries out . “Not I, but thou ! Thou !”

“My friend, I go to seek out my own self but I cannot”—Sri Ramkrishna.

This ‘Thou’ takes a form and flares up like a meteor emitting brilliant and light. And again starts the seeing of God.

Then comes the visualization of Descent. The divine consciousness is coming down with forms and they are seen. It is called the Descent of Chaitanya.

 Next, the manikin, Manus Ratan, is seen . It is succeeded by God’s sports and the Absolute and vice-versa—the two termini aspects of the very same thing. Here is also seen the sportive forms of God. It is also seeing of God. ‘There is no end of it ‘.

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 )

25 .               “No, no, not clay ! The  image  is  made  of  God’s  light “

A real devotee sees that the image is made of God’s light . At first a shining light is seen all around in the image . Then the light develops and covers the image . The image appears to be made of light only . This light does not come from outside but it emits from the eyes of the devotee . First it takes the shape of image in outline and then it covers the whole image and lastly there remains the form of image made of God’s light . The God is within you and from there, comes out His light through your eyes and shrouds the image .Apparently, on the surface it appears so but if a deep penetration is made then it transpires that the devotee is seeing this image of light in his own brain and the happening before his sight is but an outward reflection of his inner condition . At this atage the devotee is not in a position to demarcate the inside from the outside. He knows that it is an outward occurrence .

An occurrence of Thakur’s life in the form of realization is quoted here which will throw light over the confusion of inside or outside .

Thakur once saw that Eternity (lit : eternal time in the form of a man called Kalapurush) came out of his body.

Thakur prayed to his Divine Mother to do away with the man . The Divine Mother at once hacked the man into pieces .But there was no blood there in the outside . Thakur witnessed the whole episode within him and nothing happened in the outside .

Another realization is cited here which will throw more light and clarify the thing . God is seen . Then various sportive forms of God are also seen . By such continuous realizations the body becomes very light . At this stage it is seen that God with form comes out of the body and enters the body again . God in the body makes you know that God with form seen in the outside does not come from without but comes out from your own body .

26 ..               “Thousand  lectures will  not  render  the  least  help 

                       to make  a  man  understand  anything  about  God”

     If God reveals Himself to you then you may know God, otherwise nor . You yourself do not know the sports of God as evinced by your lectures, then how can you make others understand about God ? Had you been acquainted with the thorough text of God’s sports then you would have remained silent . Of course, those who get God’s commandment have a different case . They do not deliver lectures but they simply live by speaking out the God’s sportive forms as seen by them in their body ; nay, not only this, but they find out that they do not speak out but God in them talks and teaches others .

27 .                 “If  it  Is  required  that  others  are  to  be  taught  then  God

                         Himself  will teach  them. He lives  in  every  man , Granted,

                        It is an error  to  worship  the  image  of  clay, but  God  is

                        fully aware that  He is  worshipped  in  that  way  and  He  is

                       satisfied  with  it . You  need  not  be  beating  your  brain  over  it “.

    God living in you understands the disposition of your mind and if it is sincere one . He is satisfied with it.’The image of clay’ is this human body. The body is to be worshipped and propitiated and then God will emanate from the body and will appear as Atma in the cerebrum . “Till a daughter (Parvati—is the name of the daughter . She is Bhagavati Tanu—fourth sheath—sixth plane ) is born in the house of the Himalaya, the Himalaya is but a huge heap of stone—i.e., clay”. Himalaya is a man, Daughter is Bhagavati Tanu .

28 .                    All  the  various  forms  of  worship  have  been  provided  by

                         God  Himself. He  is  the  Lord  of  the  Universe . Every  iota

                         Of  creation  is  His  own . It  is  his  arrangement  to  provide

                        different  men with   different  stages  of  manifestations  and 

                        realizations .  The  mother  sets up  separate  menu  according

                       to  the  taste  of  her  different  children .”

                   

       Here it is  spoken of God’s emanation in the body. God emanates in the body in different measures. Somewhere a shilling and somewhere a pound .

       In some cases there are realizations as depicted in the holy Tantra (a treatise on Yoga and the realization is to see God with form . But Tantra does not end here . After seeing God with form there comes realizations of the sportive forms of God . At the time of death the ego-consciousness merges in Mahakaran or the first Cause,. Tantra’ has got four sheaths in six planes ) .

       In some cases God manifests Himself with the realizations as laid down in the Vedas—five sheaths in seven planes .

        Again in some cases God expresses Himself in the realizations of the Vedas and also that of Vedanta (lit; the end of knowledge), i.e, to know God stage by stage till nothing remains—the ego-consciousness melts away in the First Cause ; the God opens Himself and shows His inward composition and component parts (i.e, Sadhan of Atma). This Vedanta is realization of God in five stages and they are ---

          1.   God  is  in  the  body .

          2.    The  Universe  is  in  God .

          3.    Universe,  the  God,  changes  into  a  seed.

           4.    This  seed  again  changes  into  a  dream .

           5 .    The  dream  vanishes—the  ego-consciousness  evaporates .

                    What  remains  nobody  can  know  or  say .

                The Ascent (Agam) ends here . Then comes Descent (Nigam). In descent there are multifarious conditions and realizations .