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 )

81).              “The  same  man  when  he  worships  in  a  temple  is  called

                     a  priest  and  when  he  prepares  a  meal  is  a  cook”.  

 There is but one God. He at first appears as life-power in the body, and finally transforms into Supreme Bliss. These are all but various aspects of God with forms, and nothing can be said of God without any form .

 82) .             “The  man  of  knowledge  (Jnani) sticks  to  the  path  of  Knowledge

                      and  as  he  proceeds  he  reasons—“not this, not  this”1  Brahma  is

                      neither  this, nor  that,  not these living  beings,  nor  this  Universe,

                      Elimination  succeeds  elimination  and  then  mind  is  transformed

                      into  a  point  (a  zero)  and  then  comes  “Sthitha  Samadhi”.  The

                      Brahmajnani  knows  it for  certain  that  God it  real  and  the      

                      Universe  is  unreal—not  in  existence . Like  dream, all  these

                      Names  and  forms  are  illusory . It  cannot  be  said  that  God  is  a

                      Person . All men  of  knowledge,  known  as  Vedantists, say  like  this”.

Who are vedantists ?

The Vedantisis are those who see and realise God in these five aspects in the seventh plane .

They   are---

(1)     Atma ;

(2)     Atma holding the Universe within Him ;

(3)     This Vast Universe is transforming into a seed ;

(4)     The seed is transformed into a dream ; and,

(5)     The dream in its turn evaporates and what remains,

          nobody knows .

83)    “To a devotee every state of life is real . The waking  state is a reality to them .

           The world to them is not a dream . They say that the Universe is His attributive

           power. All this are His parts and parcels as eternally He is expressing Himself

           in the form of sky, stars, moon, sun, mountains, oceans, men, animals, They                are but His inseparable glory . He is within us well as in and spreading over all              our consciousness . Again He is in the outside all over the world . The                            devotees who are blessed with the realizations of descent, say that the twenty                four cosmic principles and Universe are all but manifestations of His own self .            The devotees crave to eat sugar, but they do not want to get themselves                        transformed into sugar”.

 Who is a devotee ?

 He who has seen the manikin form of God (Manus Ratan) within his own body and has heard him to sing the glory of God by clasping his hands is a devotee .

A devotee accepts all the forms of transformations as they spring up in the process from the waking of the life-power assumes the form of Manus Ratan . These transformations are but realizations solving the problem of life and death, the woeld and God, and all questions which may rise in a man . “Knowledge is like a gentlemen who goes and stops in the outer house, but devotion is like a lady and enters in the zenana—“Sri Ramkrishna .

84)      “Do you know how a lover of God nurtures his love to God ?

                        He says, “O God! Thou art the Master and I am Thy servant .

                        Thou art the Mother and I am Thy child”. Or again “Thou art

                        both my Father and Mother . Thou art the Full and I am a part”.

                        He does not like to say, “I am Brahma”.

After attaining the manikin form of God in the body, the lover of God ties himself in a relationship with God and tastes the sweetness of love to God through the body and all over the body.

This relationship has got five forms. They are:--

(1)    Relationship of quietness—transforming into God but not in toto. God is quietness. The only existence of the devotee is left to enjoy the sweetness of quietness, the God . This quietness is felt in two ways. It is felt in a concentrated form as spoken of by Thakur—“a fish kept confined in a jar has been set free in an ocean”. And again, it is felt all over the body.

(2)    Relationship of servant and master. The best example is the life of Shri Hanumana as depicted in the Ramayana—an epic.

(3)    Relationship which springs up between two best friends . The best example is cited in the life of Sreedanma, Sudama. In the Bhagavat .                  

(4)    The love of mother and her child as between Sri Krishna and Yashoda, or Thakur and Ramlala .

(5)    The love of a lady to her lover as between Shri Radha and Shri Krishna .

There are some specially favored people who get the bliss of these five kinds of relationship with God .