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 )

                                                                                                 

223)     “Forehead  is  the  seat  of  the  sixth  plane, the  mind  reaches  there  in  the

              forehead  and  the  devotee  sees  God  with  form,  God’s  other  sportive

              forms,  and  God’s  light,  day  and  light”

 A retinue (Nityasiddha---Iswarkati) of an Incarnation of God (Avatar) sees God in His various sportive forms .But in an Avatar, the realization is different. Firstly, the third eye or eye of knowledge opens. It is called ‘eye of knowledge’ because it is the divine eye through which various sportive forms of God are seen within the cerebrum. In the eye of knowledge the symbols of realizations to come upon in the seventh plane are seen—such as, a miniature image of Buddha or other symbols. Then the image of Mysterious Maya (Rahaswamayee Maya) is seen. She is quite, slim, something made of unseen beauty, youthful and slowly dancing in rhythm and the gaze of her eyes are fixed on the toe of her feet. Then succeeds various sportive forms of God. Then God’s light is seen.

In seeing the God’s light there is a difference between an Avatar and his retinue.

A retinue sees God’s light in a lantern or in a bulb or both in lantern and electric bulb. Then he sees God’s light without any cover. But these are realizations of the sixth plane. An Avatar sees that a silk curtain is hanging before his sight and there shines the glorious rising sun behind the curtain.

224)     “Then  the  mind  enters  the  seventh  plane.  The man  is  endowed  with  the

               knowledge  of  Brahma  (God)  and  sees  God  (Brahma---Atma)”

    

It is spoken of seeing God in the seventh plane where God-the-preceptor shows God and merges into God. After seeing God in the seventh plane a retinue of an Avatar cannot keep up his body any more. So the great Swamiji’s (Swami Viveknanda) passage for the seventh plane was kept under lock and key by Thakur.

An Avatar’s body is retained after seeing God in the seventh plane. Atma (God) will revel Himself in all His sportive forms there. The mystery of life and death will be solved. Then there will be Descent. In descent though an Avatar is God Himself but He will keep on seeing His own sports.

225)     “As  long  as  you  were  absent  in  the  meeting,  we  were  talking  about  you,

              but  with  your  arrival  and  appearance  all talks  about  you  stopped”

It is Samadhi. Life—power is transformed into Supreme Self.

226)     “After  attaining  Supreme  Self,  all  outward  devotional

              actions  of  the  devotee  are  dropped”

The mystery of life and death is solved. The illusory aspect of the creation is realised. So no more the game of illusion is played.

227)     “In a  congregational  sing  in  the  praise  live  of  God,  at  the  outset  a  man

              keeps  on singing---“Nitai (a devotee  of  Shri  Chaitanya)  is  a  mad  elephant,

              Nitai  is  a  mad  elephant”

It is but to have the transformation of life-power set in motion. The curd is going to be churned for butter; the life-power is in the course of transformation into God.

228)     “The  devotional  mood  deepens  and  the  singer  only

               utters---‘Elephant’, ‘Elephant’  (‘Hati’, ‘Hati’)”

The life-power is coursing her way between fifth and the sixth plane. The vocabulary power is also transformed; as to speak is part and parcel of life-power and it is almost lost.

229)     “In  the  end,  the  man  keeps  on  uttering  only

              one  syllable---‘Ha’ ---(‘Ele’  of  elephant)”

It is the entrance from the sixth plane to the seventh plane.

230)     “Then  the  singer  becomes  silent”

The life-power has entered the seventh plane and has been transformed into God. All outward functions of life are stopped.