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 )

85).                      “The  yogi  tries  to  see  the  Supreme  Soul . His end  is  to  get

                                the  embodies  soul  converted  into  the  Supreme  Soul “.

The embodied soul is transformed into the Supreme Soul, this is called the Great Transformation (Mahayoga). This Great Transformation comes after the unfoldment  of the embodied soul into—

(1)    The Universe is in God.

(2)    It is transformed into a seed.

(3)    The seed is changed into a dream.

(4)    The dream vanishes and nothing remains.

Though the Ascent stops here, in some cases the consciousness comes down and again it goes up when the Supreme Soul is seen.

86) .                            “The yogi  withdraws  his  mind  from  the  body  and

                                      tries  to  have  it  transformed  into  the  Supreme  Soul”.

The life-power of yogi is transformed into the Supreme Soul and he is seeing the Supreme Soul. This is realization is taking place from within the Supreme Soul. But yet there is consciousness. To extinct this consciousness is the ideal of a yogi but it never takes place in this stage . To see the Supreme Soul is but a realization and as such it cannot bring about a thorough elimination (Sthita Samadhi).

87).                 “At the first stage of spiritual discipline a yogi retires in solitude and keeps Himself confined in a fixed place and then practices meditation with undivided

attention”.

The yogi, or the man of knowledge, or a devotee—all these people have got to get their mind withdrawn from the world and get it confined and concentrated in the seventh plane to see the various sportive forms of God . This is the only way and it is so eternally.

                   

88).                “The man of knowledge with non-dualistic realizations of Vedanta says

                        that the act of creation, preservation and destruction, and the Universe

                        and all its living beings are but illusory sports of the Divine power”.

“Non-dualistic realizations of Vedanta—“is the unfoldment of the embodied soul as seen in the seventh plane in four parts, viz., (1)  The universe in Atma or God,  (2)  Seed,  (3)  Dream,  (4)  Elimination of ego-consciousness.

Preservation—is the Universe with all living beings in Atma.

Destruction—in the first stage is a seed, in the second stage is but a dream and then elimination follows.

These realizations are but stage or staircase leading up-wards in the process of  transformation of the life-power into the elimination of ego-consciousness (Stitha-Samadhi).

89).                 “Upward  realizations  reveal  that  all these

                         realizations  are  but  illusory  like  a  dream”.         

Realizations are relative truths and as such they appear as illusory as dream in comparison with the fundamental Truth or Absolute.

90).                 “Brahma  is  real”.

It is so revealed in four stages. They are;--

(1)    Atma  or  God ;

(2)    Jara  Samadhi—to get the life-power transformed into Euclid’s point ;

(3)    Elimination of ego-consciousness;  and

(4)    to come back in the Descent with the knowledge of positiveness,

91).                  “All  else  is  unsubstantial”.

They do not exist at all .

92)                    “The life-power  is in  dream  and  not  in  existence”.

The ultimate transformation of life-power assumes the form of a dream and at the end there remains cannot be side.