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 )
255) “Till
the channel meets
the river”
Till life-power reaches the
cerebrum.
256) “Daughter
and wife”
These two forms of womanhood are
the greatest bondage and fetters to a man. Wife is but an ephemeral charmer and
a daughter is the image of softness and sweetness, i.e., good qualities. Both
of them are fetters, one is absorptive and the other is distractive.
257) “The
peasant held a
chase, spade in hand and scared
away both
wife and daughter”
The man broke the bondage of
woman. He freed himself from the fetters of charming illusion (Maya) around a
man.
258) “The channel was
connected with the river”.
The life-power in the man reached
the cerebrum or the seventh plane.
259) “Then
the peasant took
his bath and meal”
Then the man realized various
sportive forms of God.
The man attained no-ego state—the
last phase of transformation of life-power when there is no-ego-consciousness.
It is called Sthitha Samadhi or merging into the Great Cause.
261) “The
woman and Gold keep
God tied up
in the
body and do
not permit God’s
liberation”.
Woman and Gold must be shunned in
case of a man, and in case of woman, she must be shunning the company of man
and gold.
“A man will be he-eunuch and a
woman will be she-eunuch; then there will be liberation of God from the
body”.
---Shri Ramkrishna.
It does not mean physical but it
is to embrace voluntary renunciation.
You must be earning your
livelihood but it must be an honest earning and it will not be allowed to
exceed your bare requirements. So far gold is permitted to be earned, as otherwise
you have got to depend on others and that is also an impediment,
The man who is blessed with
spontaneous liberation of God from the body is not required to exert himself
for abstaining from “woman and gold”.
“The father has got his child on
his shoulder and there is no fear for the child to have a fall”.
---Sri Ramkrishna.
The man who is blessed with the
protection of God will keep himself aloof from the company of woman and he will
never accept any gift of money from others. These two phenomena will be
distinctly marked in the usual course of his everyday life.
262) “When
a woman accompanies
a man,
he is doomed to
lose his spiritual
power”
The human body is so constituted
that man and woman in close contact with each other acts and reacts over each
other’s body. It holds up the progress of transformation of life-power; nay,
not only this, but it lulls the life-power into sleep. If life-power gets
asleep there it will sleep for good and then there will be no upward course for
it.
It was the garden-house in
Cossipore—a suburb of Calcutta .
Here Thakur was taken for treatment at the last phase of his illness. A young
man of some twenty years age was brought by his relatives near Thakur for
pointing out what happened to the young man as he appeared to be in a high
beatitude state. Thakur saw the young man and told his relatives that all on a
sudden a high spiritual life (Madhura Bhava) flared up in this young man, and
would be better if they would leaves this young man with him (Thakur) there, as
otherwise in their house he would be coming in contact with woman and would
lose his spiritual life. The relatives of the young man did not obey Thakur.
They took the young man away. A disciple (afterwards Swami Saradananda) of
Thakur was present at the time. Sometimes after Thakur’s passing away from the
world he remembered the incident and went to enquire about the young man in the
latter’s place and so taste the truth of the forecast made by Thakur. To this
utter surprise Swami Saradananda found that the young man, as a matter of fact,
came in contact with some woman and lost his spiritual life as well as his
beatitude state.
263) “Then
there remains no
attachments of woman
in a devotee”.
The devotee has attained God in
him, i.e., in his own body. His inward physical condition is changed. It
changes. The life-power jumps upto the cerebrum, dances there and softens it
and is ultimately transformed into God. This happening causes lust (Kama ) to get evaporated from the brain as well as from
the body. Not only this, along with the attainment of God in the body, the
angle of vision is also changed. “A woman to me appears like a tigress,”---Shri
Ramkrishna. (This happens with a devotee at the time of observing religious
discipline).
“A woman is but a small magnet to
God—the bigger magnet”---Shri Ramkrishna, God, the bigger magnet, draws and
protects the devotee and the attraction of a woman fails. In other words, the
attraction of God in the cerebrum is very superior. It comes spontaneously with
those who attain God in their body.
