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 )
181)
“Let you force
your way to
God in you”.
The second one is by continuous negation, that is, I am not
skin, I am not flesh, I am not blood, I am not bone, I am not marrow and go on
discriminating till you get a spontaneous stoppage and then there will be void
zone or you will plunge in the First Cause . Your judging in this way of
negation in your mind and body. Thakur by negation gave up gold and its manifestation
came out in this way: If a sliver coin
was placed in his hand, then his hand would writhe, his voice would be choked
up, his breath would be held up and so on till the silver coin was removed from
his hand . He renounced gold in his mind and the signs of renouncement were
exhibited in his body.
182)
“God is not
a third person
but He is
your very own”.
God is the nearest of all to you as He is in you; nay, more
than that, you are but He, “Oh Svetaketu ! Thou are but God”! And “Thou art but
Supreme Bliss!”
183)
“He is called
the best teacher”.
The best teacher is God-the-Preceptor.
A certain friend could not get his body and mind absorbed in
meditation. In a dream he saw that his God-the-preceptor appeared, caught him
by neck, and made him sit in meditation. He dipped deep in meditation. Thenceforward
meditation came upon him. God in the form of God-the-preceptor gave him His
grace and he got capacity for meditation. It was sheer God’s grace and God
within the friend manifested Himself in meditation.
184)
“Has God got any from,
or is He
without any form?”
A patient in delirium wants to drink a thankful of water; he
wants to take bread of the size of a mountain . The question is of that
character. I had never been to New York or Washington . How could I
describe New York or Washington? I do not know A. B. C. of God and how am I to
make any conclusion that God has His from or God is without any form?
185)
“God has no
finality”.
God is in every human body. He is seen in the seventh plane.
He is with form. He is only an outline. He is without any form. Everything is God
and He is beyond everything. A man knows so far as God, by His grace, makes him
understand.
186)
“God assumes form
only for a
devotee”.
A devotee of Buddha sees form of Buddha; a devotee of Jesus
sees the form of Jesus ; a devotee of
Shri Ramkrishna sees the form of Shri Ramkrishna and so on .
But there is another superior class of seeing God with form.
This superior class of realization reveals that it is God’s light seen at the
entrance to the seventh plane coming out of the sixth plane and taking the form
of Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, Shri Ramkrishna and other forms of Gods and
goddesses as described in any mythology or religious book of the world.
A devotee of formless God sees in meditation (1) a
Goddess of ten hands with great grandeur and pomp, (2) then the goddess turns
into the form of a god with four hands , (3) then the god changes into the form
of a baby---say, baby Buddha, or baby Jesus, or baby Sri Ramkrishna and (4)
lastly a devotee of formless God sees God’s light . It is but a part
realization and the whole course of realization is not revealed to him .
187) “To
a man knowledge
i.e., to whom the
world is but
a dream, God
is without any
form”.
One, after attaining Supreme Knowledge, comes back in
Descent to speak about the sportive forms of God with forms and without forms.
188)
“A devotee knows
that He is an entity
and the Universe
is another”.
Here the devotee has dualistic knowledge and no unitary
knowledge. It is but a partial knowledge.
