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 )

 240)     “Afterwards  I  told  Keshab,  “Why  do  you  say  such  things  so  often.

            “O  God,  what beautiful  flowers  Thou  hast  made!  Thou  hast  created

             the  heavens,  the  stars,  the  oceans  and  so  on”?

The  speaker speaks out to evince that his mind is roaming in the outside world and his life-power is not transformed into God, and it is not in the body, i.e., he not a Yogi.

241)     “So,  I  say,  a  man  seeks  the  very  same  man  whom  he  finds  Joy.

              He  does  not  go  to  enquire  address  of  his  house  or  how  many

              houses,  gardens,  relatives,  servants  and  wealth  he  owns!”              

It is spoken of a man who has got God in him all on a sudden—Hathat Siddha. A Hathat Siddha becomes so deeply moved with joy of God in him that he does not seek for other sportive forms of God.

242)     “Who  is  that  man  rowing  the  boat  on  and  across  the  land?”

The boat is rowed on and across the land through the grace of God-the-preceptor as God-the-preceptor opened out this passage when He come down from the formless God.

Land---here represents  body.

Boat---represents life-power.

Life-power courses her way through the body and falls into the ocean of the Supreme Bliss, i.e., in the seventh plane. All these things are seen, otherwise they cannot be understood. God-the-preceptor shows these things in the body and then makes one understand by teaching.

To row a boat on land is absurd. But nothing is absurd for God. God-the-preceptor shows the devotee that a boat is rowed on land by him. It is His grace.

243)     “Nikasha  replies---‘O  Rama, I am  so  long  alive,  hence

              I  am  seeing  all  these  sportive  forms  of  you, I  went  to

              live  further  so  that  I  may  see  your  more  sportive  forms 

              which are  to  come”

 Nikasha the mother of Ravana, the King of Lanka (Ceylon); it is so spoken in the great Indian epic Ramayana.

Ravana---represents the animality in a man. With the advent of God in the human body the animality dies;

The man with divinity in him lives and Nikasha represents that man. A man becomes ‘Nikasha’ when he gets the manikin form of God in him in Descent. He wants to live more to see other sportive forms of God in him as he is the marked devotee of God and his body is really the God’s house, i.e., temple, church, mosque, etc.

244)     “The  ways  of  God  cannot  be  understood”

“A milk pot for two pounds milk cannot hold eight pounds”---Shri Ramkrishna.

All the infinite sportive forms of God cannot get their manifestations and expressions in the human body. The limit of expression is so far as He by His grace manifests Himself in the body.