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 )
116). “The mind
is all in
all”.
117).
“But there is one mind”.
The mind has got various phases . But all these phases merge and are
transformed into one “Atma”—God with forms and attributes, and finally God
without forms and attributes .
118). “Mind keeps a man in bondage
. Mind makes a man free. I am
free man .
It is no matter if I live in the world or in
the forest . What can
keep me bound?
I am a child of God. He is king of the kings.
As such, who
dares keep me in
bondage”?
If a man is bitten by a snake and
if he keeps on saying emphatically, “There is no venom in me” then the venom
leaves him . So if a man keeps on saying with right earnestness,
“I am not bound, I am free” then
he turns out to be free”!
It is a prayer of a devotee to God.
He listens to the prayer . One Mr. Hazra asked Thakur, “Will my prayer be heard
by God” ? Thakur at once replied, “Yes, hundred times”. The above prayer has
the character of self-exertion . To attain God by self-exertion then at the
time of death, through the grace of God, he may have liberation—but the bliss
of liberation cannot be enjoyed when alive . It is only spontaneous emanation
which can set a man free to have its bliss in the lifetime .Spontaneous
emanation of God from the body is the way of a kitten . It is exactly as if a
father has taken charge of his own child . In case of a monkey cub, it is the
cub which clutches the neck of its mother .
119). The wretched man who
keeps on saying, ‘I am bound.
I am bound,’
gets himself really bound . He who says day
and night, ‘I am but a sinner.’ ‘I am but a sinner,’
in fact becomes
a sinner .”
The intellect is colored by mind,
and continued thinking of sin tarnishes the intellect. A tarnished intellect
makes a man go down .
120). “To see
God is the
end of life”
121). “A man must have
burning faith in Him that he may say,
‘What! I have
repeatedly taken the name of God, and so
sin cannot cling to me . There is no
sin in me. I am not bondage”.
122). “If the name of God is
taken repeatedly by a man,
then it makes
him pure in mind and body .”
123). I only prayed for
devotion is my Divine Mother.”
Is
it only a mental operation? Oh no!
Love of God is the fixed star and
it cannot be defined. To obtain the manikin form of God in one’s body is the
highest realization of God’s love in a man.