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 )

136).         “Then  comes  the  real  love  to  God”.

The Supreme Knowledge is succeeded by knowledge of ‘Not-I-but-Thou’, and this is succeeded by attainment of manikin form of God and then springs up the real love of God .

137).            “Yearning  alone  enables  one  to  attain  God”.

Waking of life-power gives impetus to yearning and this life-power is transformed into Supreme Bliss.

138).        “As  if,  it  was  a  fight  between  Shiva  and  Rama”.

 In an epic of India, it has been depicted that there was a fight between Shiva and Rama—the preceptor turns into God-with-Form . It is so seen in meditation and this is seeing God-with-Form. Again, when the God-the-Preceptor shows God-without-Form in the seventh plane and merges into God, this explains the allegory how God-the-preceptor Shiva changes into Rama means One, that is, non-dualistic state in the seventh plane.

Shri Ramkrishna fought this fight of Shiva and Rama in the cottage of meditation beneath the group of five trees at the garden-temple of Dakshineswar while he has engaged in realization of the Supreme Knowledge . Puri Maharaj (one of Thakur’s spiritual conductor and guide) made Rhahur sit in meditation in the cottage, closed the door from the outside and left the place. Thakur dipped deep in meditation. But when ever his mind wanted to cross the sixth plane the blissful from of the Divine Mother barred the passage to the seventh plane . One becomes forgetful of everything when he sees his own dear God-with-Form . Thakur had no desire left to him to proceed to the seventh plane . Some couple of hours went by in this way . Now Puri Maharaj entered the cottage . Thakur very eagerly spoke out “Well, Ican’t leave the sixth plane and proceed further!”

“Pooh, don’t be so hasty. It is sure to come”, saying this, Puri Maharaj picked up a sharpened piece of glass of and pierced the middle place of the two eyebrows of Thakur to a point only and side, “Take up your mind here”. The door was again closed from the outside and Thakur composed himself in deep meditation. Again the joyous form the Divine Mother appeared. This time Thakur drew out his sword of knowledge and cut the joyous form the Divine Mother into pieces. His mind entered the seventh plane like lightning and was transformed into Supreme Self or One. Some three hours went by in this way when Puri Maharaj again entered the cottage and seeing the outward signs on the body of the Thakur exclaimed “Oh, how wonderful is God’s grace! It took me some forty years to reach this state but this has happened here in no time”!

The fight between the Divine Mother and Thakur, i.e, fight between Shiva and Rama—between God-the-preceptor and the disciple — was over in the seventh plane in a non-dualistic condition .

139.         “Mother  and  her  daughter”.      

Mother---Signifies  body from where the soul emanates .

Daughter---is born of the mother, that is, God-with-Form as seen in the sixth plane .

140).        “Without  Jatila  and  Kutila, the  mischief-mongers, God’s sport  does  not  develop”.

Had there been nobody then there would have been no manifestation of God in the cerebrum.

141).         “There   is  no  fun  but  for  Jatila—Kutila”.

It is body which yields the Supreme Bliss.

142).          “You  pick  up  your  disciples  without  reading  their  nature, so  they  go  away  from  you”.

It is fundamental for becoming a disciple to get the form of the preceptor as God-the-Preceptor in his body. A human being cannot be a preceptor. God is in the physical sheath. He emanates. He assumes a human form. The form of God-the-Preceptor, and if that form is a living one then it indicates that God is in a fully emanated and awakened condition in this form.

143).          “Cakes  called  “Puli” (a Bengali  cake)  look all  alike  but  their  contents  vary .

                     Some ‘Pulis’ have  got  condensed  milk  in  them, some  have  sweetened . 

                     Cocoanut  kernel  and  some  past  of  pulse”.

Puli---represents human body.

Condensed milk---in body means to see God-with-Form in body (Sttava).

Sweetened cocoanut kernel---means the aerial body as a man sees his own prototype while he files in dream (Rajas).

Paste of pulse---means that there will be no emanation of God in their physical sheath (Tamas).

144).             “I eat, drink  and  live, and  all  the  rests  are  known  to  my  Divine  Mother  in  me”.

The existence of Thakur consisted in keeping the body and soul together devoid of all other animal signs. He existed to see the sports of the Divine Mother in his own body as well as in the world around.