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 )

            
189)           “So God  assumes  a  human  form  (made  of  God’s  light)

                     and  appears  before  a  devotee”.

It is a realization of the sixth plane.

190)            “A  man  of  Supreme  knowledge  becomes  conscious  of

                     God  without  any  form  in  divine  consciousness”.

It is so realized in meditation. It is the last tinge of divine consciousness and after that what comes cannot be said as no divine consciousness also remains.

191)            “It  is  exactly  like  an  onion . Let  you  peel  off  the  skin .

                     First  you  take  of  the  red  outer  skin, then  the  thick

                     White skin, and  so  on. At  last  there  remains  nothing”.

Onion---is compared with this human body.

Skin of Onion—represents sheaths of body. There are five sheaths in the body. The last sheath is “Supreme Bliss”. Beyond the last sheath there lies the First Cause, the Great Unknown.

192)             “In  filling  an  empty  pitcher  with  water  in  a  lake,

                      Gurgling  sound  comes  out  and  continues”.

Pitcher---represents human body.

Filling the pitcher in the lake---means to be merged in the First Cause.

Gurgling sound---represents all the sportive forms God with forms or without forms as seen in the body in the course of transformation of life-power and lastly to get merged into the Great Unknown . Of course, then follows Descent .   

193    “No  boat  ever  returns  from  the  ‘black  water’ of  the  ocean”,

Black water---is the First Cause.

Boat---is ego-consciousness.

Ever returns---means merges in the First Cause.

It is the ego of an Avatar or incarnation of God.

194)    “The  ego  of  a  devotee”

The manikin or Manus Ratan is within the body and the devotee sees Him. This consciousness of seeing the Manus Ratan is the ego of real and true devotee.

195)     “You  are  not  Vedantist,  nor  you  are  men  of  knowledge  of  God”

Vedantists are those who witness the sportive forms of God in the seventh plane ending in the Void zone. A man of knowledge is he who is perpetually conscious that he is not body but he is God.

You shall not be blessed with the realizations of God’s sportive forms in the seventh plane, nor you will get perpetual consciousness that you are not body but you are God. You lack in God’s grace in your life as you are fettered with the worldly pursuits.

196)     “The  path  of  devotion  yields  a  comfortable  journey  for  attainment  of  God”

If God in form of God-the-preceptor takes one up on His own shoulder then it becomes easier to ford the world.

197)     “God  with  form  is  seen”

God in human form made of God’s light is seen. By human, it is meant that a man may be a devotee of Jesus. God in the form of Jesus, made of God’s light, will come out from his body, stand before him and talk with him.