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 )

56) .      “There, he is come again”! 

Thakur  said  and  laughed  aloud .

A true devotee is a joy for ever to God, is a devotee is the accommodation for God’s supreme and highest manifestation . “God’s manifestation  takes place in the highest degree in a man :  -  ShriRamkrishna .

57)       “The Peacock felt the need of intoxication of the opium ;  So it came back in usual time to get a dose of the drug”.

It is the force of habit as displayed in the body . It is understood and easily felt when a devotee gets himself well matured in meditation . There is a time fixed by every devotee for meditation . Meditation comes over the devotee in that time spontaneously. The intoxication of the opium—in the inner urge for meditation as felt.

58)     “He (Thakur) is speaking out the facts. At home I think of him continually—when I shall see again when I shall see him continually—when I shall see him again, when I shall see him  again ! Some unseen force draws me up here . I cannot go elsewhere through I may think otherwise ‘ but I have got to come here”.

The magnet is attracting a piece of iron and the piece of iron is sure to come . It is attraction, and this attraction is felt only by those from whose body God will emanate . It is nothing to them from whose body there will be no emanation of God . The thought and longing to see Thakur are making the mind holy and pure . So there is a mental transformation giving birth to purity .

59)     “He is but a bit advanced is age, So he is so grave”:

The age of Shri M (the author of the Gospel of Shri Ramkrishna) was 27 years at the time . He is spoken of as advanced in age by Thakur . Why so ? God does not emanate in full measure in a man of advanced age .

Thakur saw God in his body at the age of eleven . God-the-Preceptor appears in the body between the age of twelve and thirteen and then there will be a full emanation of God . The word ‘grave’ signifies that there will not be a complete manifestation .

60)     “The  youngsters  are  bursting  out with joy”.

The joy of these young people is more in comparison with Shri M. This ‘more joy’ indicates  that there will be a larger emanation of God in the body .

61)     “Just think of  Hanumana’s  disposition in life . He did not want money, honour, fame,

           

Creature—comforts or anything else ; but he longed for God . While he was fleeing with the infallible weapon kept hidden in the crystal pillar, Mandodari (wife of Ravana, the king  of Lanka) tried to tempt him with lovely fruits”.

Hanumana—represents a devotee .

Crystal pillar---is the fourth sheath or the sixth plane where God with human form made of God’s light is first seen . This God with form is changed into Atma—the first condition of God without any form in the seventh plane or in the cerebrum . It is called emanation of God from the body and full measure . This condition of God is the infallible weapon to kill the ego-Ravana . It is the complete separation of God and body .

Mandodari, the wife of Ravana,--is Mahamaya who keeps man in bondage and makes him forgetful of real self .

Fruit—represents temptations and allurements of the world .

62)     “But  nothing  could tempt  Hanumana  to forget  his  great  mission”.

Hanumana could not be tempted as he eas all along protected by God-the-Preceptor from within .

63)    “As  his  picture  is seen  the  photograph “.

In a photo of Thakur, he is seen in a sitting posture with half-closed eyes and motionless body . It means Jara Samadhi . The life power is collected and transformed to a point and the point is that of Euclid’s point .

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 )

48)      “In the Vedas it is spoken of the bird Homa (a species of bird not known now). It lives high up in the sky and her eggs are laid there. The egg starts falling down and the downward fall continues for many days . It hatches as it goes down and the chick comes out and continues falling . Its eyes open and wings grow in the course of falling down . With the opening of the eyes, it comes to know that the fall on touching the earth will dash it to pieces . Then it shoots up high in the sky towards the mother bird”.

It is an allusion of God-the-Preceptor . The mother bird Homa is God, the absolute . The chick is God-the-Preceptor and He comes down and appears within the body . Then he shoots up high, as otherwise He may be encased in the body . In the course of shooting up, the sportive forms of God are seen as God-the-Preceptor is God, the Absolute, nut with form .

49)      “He (Thakur) became absent-minded in the course of hearing”.

To avoid hearing of any mundane affair, the mind of Thakur shut up in the sixth plane . It was spontaneous .

50)     “It is called Samadhi.”

Samadhi means transformation of life-power to God .

There are three stages of this transformation—

1)    To see God in the seventh plane.

2)    To be transformed into God—‘I am He’.

3)    To be eliminated in the Absolute, or in other words, to lose the sense of ego-existence—Sthitha Samadhi .

The Buddhist in their list have got 135 kinds of transformations (Samadhi). It is as if to measure God with a measuring tape . Every time this transformation reveal a new character . An ordinary man is not blessed with this kind of realization . Only the Nityasiddha, Iswarkati, Avarats (vide Foreword—Page26) are favoured with realizations like this which come to pass every now and then .

The transformation as experienced in meditation is of lower category . This transformation has been divided into four classes by Thakur :

1)    Unmana—to collect the mind and to have it fixed at the meeting point of the two eye brows . The mind here looks like the point of a needle made of God’s light .

2)    Chetan—the point of the needle penetrates into the cerebrum and God’s light flashes in the in side from neck to head . The ego-consciousness remains in this part of the body only and not in the lower portion .

3)    Jara—It is to collect and transform the life-power to a point only . The point remains bearing the sense of the point only . Its location is at the end of the seventh plane and it is to be reckoned as a geometrical point .

4)    Sthitha—It is entire elimination of ego-existence and nothing can be said of it .

51)     “ A light  spasm  came  over  the  body  of  Shri  Ramkrishna”.

This light spasm (Siharan) is one of the eight insignia as manifested and seen in the body when life-power within undergoes transformation . In fact life-power makes her way in the cerebrum, touches the cerebrum and tries to flash into God’s light . She does not stop there but comes back and again goes back to the cerebrum . It is called her dance of joy .

52) .    “All through  and  over  his  body  hairs  stood  on  end”.

Standing of hair on end signifies manifestation of God in the body . A change is taking place within the body and the expression of changes appears on the body . It is also one of the signs belonging to the group of eight outwards signs of inward transformations (Asta Sattvik Lakshman).

53).    “Tears  of  joy  rolled  down  the  cheeks”.

It signifies that transformation is taking place within the body . Life-power is on way to the cerebrum . It acts within, and as an insignia of action tears come down .

54)    “As  if,  from  time  to time  he  is  seeing  something  in  him  and  smiling “.

No, he not smiling at all . When life-power enters the cerebrum the cheeks heave and the lips are parted . To an ordinary man it will appear like a smile .

When God separates from the body some expressions bearing the marks of separation come over the body . One of them is light parting of the lips with slight trembling as if it is a smile . In fact, it is not a smile but mark of separation of God from the body (Paramhansa condition) .

55) .   “ Is  he  seeing  within  himself  God  with  form  made  of  God’s  light” ?

There are two kinds of God’s light . One is with form and another is a splash of light only . The later is of superior type to the former . Form made of light is seen in the sixth plane, whereas splash of light at the entrance of the seventh plane .