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 )

                                                                                                 

163)                “Like  Vedantist  (non-dualists)  you  do  not  say

                         That  the  world  is  but  a  dream”.

Why those devotees do say so?

They are not blessed with this realization as they did not see God and there was no chance for them to do so. They are aged people. Had there been any chance for them to realize God then that would have come to pass at their youth within 25 years of age.

At Surendra’s (Suresh Mitra’s) house after the boat trip

                                                                                

164)                 “Have  the  fare  from  the  ladies  of  the  house .For  certain,  they  must  be  knowing  that  their  husbands  (Suresh Mitra & others)  pay visit  to

us  at  the  temple  of  Dakshineswar.”

It means transmission of power from to one another and it speaks wonder .

In our case we find that husband comes and he see the “Diamond”---in the shape of my own person---within, and then other members of the family see me in the following four forms;---

(i)    In  dream.

(ii)    In  meditation.

(iii)   In  an  awakened  condition—as  a  living  man .

(iv)   In  trance.

It was not so in the time of Thakur.

Even the wife of Suresh Babu during the life—time of Thakur made a different preceptor or Guru.

165)               “There hung  on  the wall  an  oil-painting  and  Surendra  got  it  painted  specially  for  him  (Surendra). In  the  picture, it  was  so  pointed  out 

by  Thakur  to  Keshab  about  the harmony  of  all  religions,  viz.

Christianity, Islam, Buddhism,  Hinduism, and also in other sectarianisms

such  as,  ‘Vaishnava’,  ‘Sakta’,  ‘Shaiva’, etc”.

It was but a picture—a creation of imagination .

“Many have admitted that all the religions of the world are right”--. Swami Vivekananda (The ideal of a Universal Religion).

Whereas, when a man becomes God, any member of the human race coming in contact with Him will see Him within his own body, and even in many cases without any contact they see Him. The question of religion, sect, caste or creed does not arise (vide Preface, page-17). This is harmony. This is Swami Vivekananda’s Point of Union” for which he laid down his glorious life, though it did not come into existence in his own life-time.

The great Swami exclaimed that no practical plan was adopted by any to bring about this harmony in the conflux of the claim of superiority and disparity over other religions.

In Volume II of the complete works of Swami Vivekananda [Ninth (Enlarged) Edition, 1958—published in Mayavati, Almora, Himalaya], the great Swami says, “That plan alone is practical which does not destroy the individuality of any man in religion and at the same time shows him a point of union with all others”.

No practical plan can be chalked out . This harmony is achieved through Mahayoga---the ‘Great Yoga’ which evinces that “All is One and One is All”---only in the spiritual world within(Vide Introduction, Page 15 &16).

The  Master  with  the  Brahma  devotees

Benimadhab  Pal’s  Garden  House,  Sinthee.           

                                                     

28^th  October,  1882 .

166)     “Well, here  is  Shivanath,  Look  here, you  are  a devotee  and  it

              gladdens  me  to  see  you. It  gives  much  pleasure  to  a  hemp-

              smoker  to  meet  another”.

At the sight of a real devotee God in Thakur leaps up with joy and it gladdens him to a degree.

“To see an Avatar is equivalent to see God”.  ----Sri  Ramkrishna .

Thakur is an Avatar and hence he is God. There is an easy trial of testing an Avatar . If any devotee with real devotion bows down to the Avatar then the inner-self of the letter will at once get transformed into Supreme Bliss, and outward manifestation will be seen to be exhibited on his face and body. A piece of dry wood flares up if it is rubbed against a stone.

167)     “Just   possible, they  will  embrace  each  other”.   

God-the-preceptor renders the devotee his own, gets the consciousness of the devotee merged into his own consciousness and makes the devotee conscious of oneness (Brahmagyan).

“A master being highly pleased with his steward, holds his hand, makes him sit by him and says, ‘Well, well! Sit by me . We are but one”.

                                                                                            -----Shri  Ramkrishna

A certain friend saw with eyes wide open that his God-the-preceptor was swallowing him . God-the-preceptor was making the devotee one with him.

                                             

Another friend dreamt that a big royal Bengal tiger made him lie down on his back and with his big paws was trying to embrace him. The tiger by his embrace was trying to make the devotee one with him. The tiger represents God-the-preceptor. A man must be a tiger in spirit in order to break through the net of illusion.