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 )
109).
“The sky looks blue at a distance, but look at it nearby---there is
no color.The water of ocean looks blue at a distance , But go
close by, take it in your palm and see,---there is no color “.
It is spoken of God without form
and attributes . In Ascent when ego consciousness is gone, nobody knows what
remains . If the man is blessed enough to come back in Descent with Divine
Consciousness then he knows only “Yes” (Asti )
so far and nothing else .
110). “He is the master both of
bondage and liberation”.
If God through His grace frees
Himself from the body then there is liberation , and if He does not so then it
is bondage .
“I” or “ego”----is bondage .
Liberation lies in solving the
problem of “I” or “ego”. The skin of an onion is peeled off one after another,
then in the end there remains no skin . This is liberation . Here in the
simile, onion represents ‘I’. There are two other stages where the bliss of
liberation is seen and felt, and they are all in attributive conditions .
(1) The first stage is that—God is
liberated from the body and collected and shown by God-the-Preceptor as “Atma”
in the seventh plane . (ii) The second stage is when the sense springs up that
‘I am not body but I am God”!
111). “God out of a hundred thousand, gets
Himself liberated in one “.
The blessed man in whose body God liberates in full measure,
manifests and expresses His various sportive forms is a liberated one . He is
freed from the bondage of body. The primal idea of a man is that he is body
with all the senses and other attributes and corelated functions . When Atma is
shown and seen, he comes to know that he is Atma and the question of body does
not arise at all . The final stage of liberation is to get oneself freed from
the ego-consciousness . Here ends Ascent and if it is followed by Descent then
the man does not find “I” in him but there reigns the divine consciousness
“Thou”.
112).
“It is His
will”.
His will is expressed in two ways, that is, either by
keeping in bondage or by freeing Himself in the body, though it may be one in
one hundred thousand.
113). “Solid and liquid by
parts”.
It is the measure of
God liberating from the body . The liquid denotes the liberation of God and
solid is that portion from where God is not freed . Liquid God is seen in the
second sheath in the abdomen of the right side---‘Pranamaya Kosha’.
114). “I am burnt
up through excess”.
God emanated in full measure from
the body of Thakur
So ‘I’ in Thakur is burnt up . It
is seen . It flares up like red light (Chaitanya) in the cerebrum .
.
115). “Mind keeps
one in bondage .
Again, mind sets
one free”.
A purified mind cannot think that
it is in bondage . Until and unless a man sees God in his body, he cannot get
his mind purified . To see God is the measure of purification and the sight of
God in the body purifies everything concerning body . The evaporation of animal
passion from the body is the practical shape of purification . It is visible in
one’s body. As soon as any word concerning animal passion will be spoken by the
man, a shudder starting from the lower part of the body will be seen to come
over the body and the shudder will be seen to rise upwards in the cerebrum of
the seventh plane.
116). “The mind
is all in
all”.
The mind of Shri Radha (the heroine
of Shri Bhagavat—a holy epic) was transformed into the image of Shri Krishna
(the hero) . So on whatever side she was casting her sight, her eyes met with
the image of Shri Krishna .
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