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 )
The Master
and Vijay Goswami
at
Dakshineswar
Thursday---December 14, 1882
245) “It was
his last birth”
Here, a real devotee who saw God with form committed suicide, Thakur
made this remark, “It was last birth”
Last birth—means to be merged in the Great Cause. But it is the last
phase of realization as laid down in the Tantras. Here in the life of this
devotee, God did not manifest Himself in Supreme Knowledge; then he would have
remained to fulfill God’s mission in
life. “If God needs then He manifests Himself in Supreme Knowledge in a man”.
Here the devotee died, so he had no God’s mission of fulfillment in life. It
transpires that he did not attain the Supreme Knowledge. To attain Supreme
Knowledge needs manifestation of God in the five sheaths as laid down in the Vedas.
The man in whose body God manifests Himself as Supreme Knowledge lives being
liberated from the bondage of body. There is no ego or ‘I’ for the liberated
one but a perpetual “Thou”; so there would not have been any suicide.
246) “Such
happenings come into
existence”
This is that very unexpected and
spontaneous favourable circumstances
which a man experiences in ordinary course of life. This favourable
circumstances arise through the grace of God and a man takes its advantage through
innate inclination.
In the course of realizations in
various forms of God as Atma in the seventh plane it transpires that the three
chambers---Past, Present and Future---of time are but one, and everything is
predestined. Nothing is to come bur everything is in existence. There is no
future but a continuous present. Present in the existence as it is predestined.
Thakur yearned for a bower of holy
basil plants (Tulsi Kanan). But he had no arrangement for it. All necessary
equipments for the bower came afloating in the Ganges .
The gardener noticed it and informed Thakur. So the bower of holy basil plants
was made.
The temple of Dakshineswar
The ‘Bhairabi’ (woman adapt in
Tantrik disciplines) being commanded in a dream came to Dakshineswar to help
Thakur in his realizations of the sportive forms of God as laid down in the 64
Tantras. Puri Maharaj (the itinerant monk who helped Thakur in his realizations
of the Vedanta in the seventh plane) came to Dakahineswar being led by the same
cause. It is to happen and it happens.
247) “After
a gold image
is cast into
a clay mould
you may
Preserve the clay
mould or it
may be broken”
Gold image---is the form of body
made of God’s light as seen in the forth sheath or the sixth plane. The ‘form
of body’ made of God’s light changes to Atma—God. After seeing this Atma, if
God so wills then the man lives or otherwise within 21 days of transformation
of the life-power into Atma, the attainer of this state gives up his body.
248) “So
some, after attainment
of knowledge and
seeing God cast
away
their bodies;
but to give
up body in
that way a
very tall talk”
Seeing God---is to see the Universe in Atma—God.
I am Atma. The Universe is in
Atma, that is, the Universe is in me---the Atma---God
But such realization comes only to
one marked man of God in an era. So the question of casting away the body after
attainment of knowledge does not arise. The attainment of knowledge---i.e.
seeing God in the form of Atma identical with Atma and then to see that the
Universe is in Atma are but rare realizations and they happen through sheer
grace of God, as the blessed man of all these realizations is born to receive
God’s commandment for relating the sportive forms of God as seen in the body.
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