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 )

                                                                                                 

231)     “When  the  Brahmins  are  fed  in  a  feast,

              there  is  much  noise  at  the  beginning”

At the start, a man is prone to make a parade of his devotion to God with grandeur and pomp.

232)     ”Then  they  sit  with  plantain—leaves  in  front  of  them”.

              (In  a  fest  of  Bengal  plantain  leaves  serve  the  purpose  of  plates).

When a man becomes composed and quite, then God in him emanates and life-power concentrates and wake up.

233)     “Bring  some  ‘luchi’, bring  some  ‘uchi’ (unlaven  bread

              Fried  in  clarified  butter)”

This signifies a through yearning for God and also that an inner transformation of life-power is going on.

234)     “Then  they  commence  partaking  of  ‘luchi’ and  other  dishes”

Then start various kinds of realizations.

235)     “Some  three  quarters  of  the  noise  of  feast  have  subsided”

God from the body has emanated by three quarters and the man is enjoying the tuch of God in himself. “A monk has got three quarters of his mind in touch with God in himself---Shri Ramkrishna.

236)     “Curd  succeeds  luchi  and  other  dishes”.

Here curd represents the seventh plane. In the course of the transformation of life-power, the seventh plane or cerebrum is seen.

237)     “Then,  after  the  feast,  follows  sleep”

Sleep---signifies “Samadhi” or transformation of life-power into God, both with attributes and without attributes.

238)       “When  a  daughter-in-law  in  a  family  conceives,  the  mother-in-law

                 lessens the  household  work  of  the  daughter-in-law.  At  the tenth

                 month  of  conception  there  remains  no  work  for  her.  When  the

                 baby  is  born,  the  mother  is  at  absolute  rest.  All  she  has  got  to

                 do  is  to  tend  the  new-born  baby”.

(a)   To conceive---here represents God’s emanation from the body.

(b)   Daughter-in-law---is the form of God as seen in the fourth sheath or the sixth plane.

©    Mother-in-law---represents body.

(d)   To lessen the household work---is to collect and get the life-power transformed and fixed in the sixth plane.

(e)   At the tenth month---means the entrance to the seventh plane---when God’s light is seen further on when the glorious sun is seen behind a silken screen.

(f)   The baby---represents Atma---God in the seventh plane.

(g)   Only the tend the baby---means to have God unfolded His mystery and characteristics in various sportive forms in the seventh plane. Principally the sportive forms of God may be divided into five chapters :--

  

(i)    God---Atma ;

(ii)   The universe  is  in  God

(iii)   God, the  Universe,  turns  into  a  Seed---an  Atom ;

(iv)   God, the   Atom, is  but  a  Dream ;  and

(v)    The  Dream  vanishes  and  there  remains  no ego-con-sciousness.

239)     “When  a  well  is  dug”

It is spoken of the body where a well is dug. In the well God is seen in the form of transparent water. The water of well is transformed into vapour. The vapour penetrates the body and makes God and body separated. In the end it penetrates the sound also. These penetrations of body and sound express and manifest their signs over the body and they are not only seen but they are heard also.  

When the vapour penetrates the body, the head keeps on swinging from left to right to left and a ‘cling’ ‘cling’ sound is heard. It is like to sound of a dries-up cocoanut or a ripe betel-nut in a shell.

When the vapour penetrates the sound (Nad) in the end of the seventh plane, the head will keep on swinging onward and backward. It is exactly like a big chunk of ice sinking and floating in a vast sheet of water. Then the chunk sinks and no-ego-consciousness remains.

Another striking feature is that if any blessed man has retained all these realizations in his body, then if anybody else speaks out all these before him them all the outward manifestations shall come upon the body of the retainer and they cannot be keep in concealment. The supreme Culture---Brahma Vidya---no sooner then will be heard, will express itself over the body of the retainer, as it is God’s sports in the body. If the body does not respond at the mention of the name of Brahma Vidya, then it is to be understood that the man has not attained it.