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 )

270)     “He  alone  can  free  a  man  from  the  charm  of  illusion  (Maya)  as  it  is

              His  enchanting  illusion  which  has  kept  the  whole  Universe  enchanted

              with  the  most  charming  enchantment”.

Charming enchantment—is the unman body—the ego. This body turns in the fourth sheath as causal body. The causal body in its turn changes and appears as God with form. Then follows God without form. The Universe is seen within God without form. Then God turns into a seed. The seed appears as a dream. The dream vanishes and there remains no-ego-consciousness. Then flashes ‘I-am-not-but-Thou’. This state is liberation in life (Jibanmukti). Then starts the knowledge of ‘Thou’. God in the body shows his various sportive forms and these are but various conditions and stages of “I”. The “Thou” is changed into “I”.

271)     “A man’s real  religious  life  starts  after  attainment

              Of  God-the-Preceptor  in  his  body”

 At the outset God-the-Preceptor ushers in the body in the process of Descent (Nigam) and stops in the fourth sheath as causal body. Life-power in embryo at first gets awakened in the body of God-the-Preceptor. Without the body of God-the-Preceptor, life-power never awakes, nor she can have an upward motion.

272)     “They who  have  not  attained  God  in  them”

The attainment of God is firstly to see God in the seventh plane as shown by God-the-Preceptor and then to have the life-power transformed into Supreme Bliss.

273)     “They who  have  not  received  God’s  commandment”

The man who has received God’s commandment will appear as God-the-Preceptor to a real devotee. The devotee must have no previous knowledge of his God-the-Preceptor. The form of God-the-Preceptor is a real teacher; or in other words, it is God in human form.

“If you see me in dream to give you religious instructions then let you know that it is God speaking in human form”---Shri Ramkrishna. It is but a lower standard of God’s manifestation in the body as it has sprung up though coming in contact.

274)     “The man  who  has  not  strengthened  himself with  God’s  power”

The man must have the manikin form of God (Manus Ratan) in him, otherwise real power of God does not come in a man.

275)     “If  he  is  a  real  good  teacher”

It means God-the-Preceptor. God alone is good. It means Sat(Being) i.e., Asti(Reality). This Reality appears within the human form of God-the-Preceptor. It is the appearance of the invisible God without form in the body with form. In the words of the Vedas it is marking you as His special own.

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 )

264)     “After  attainment  of  God  a  devotee  verily  sees  that  a  woman  is

             but  part  and  parcel  of  the  divine  Mother,  or  calls  the  woman  as

              mother  and  worships  her  as  Divine  Mother”

Thakur himself worshipped his wife (Sadoshi Puja) but it was possible for Thakur only. It is better not to undergo the adventure.

It is fact that every woman is but a prototype of the Divine Mother. They should be so worshipped, but it is better to do so from a distance.

“When I see that some woman keep on sitting in my room and are not showing the least intention to go away, I myself get up and go outside”.

                                                                                                                                  ---Shri Ramkrishna.

265)     “Let  you  come  every  now  and  then, as                                                                    

              I  like  to  get  you  in  my  company  very  much”.

 God always wants a real devotee as there will be a talk about God’s display in the body. Without a real devotee this talk about God’s sportive forms does not come out spontaneously. God does not collect and manifest elsewhere save and except in the body of a real devotee.

266)     “Without  commandment  from  Him  in  Person,

             God  in  others  cannot  be  awakened”.

The man who gets commandment, also gets the power to awaken God in others.

“The Divine Mother showed me that I have many devotees”---Shri Ramkrishna. Even after such commandment, there is a certain class of devotees who keep silence over the matter. No devotee, however, unwilling he may be to play the role of a teacher, is a match to God. God chalks out His own way. He, in the form of the recipient of commandments, i.e., God-the-Preceptor, appears in some real devotees---unknowingly being ready, awaiting the advent of God-the-Preceptor and asks him to go to the teacher. Here the form of the teacher, a living man, and God-the-preceptor are identical.

This devotee who gets the teacher as God-the-Preceptor had no real knowledge of the teacher, may, the teacher is an unknown man to him. Thakur out of his grace has revealed this new method to us.

267)     “God  the  human  form  appears  and  hands  down written

              document  containing  God’s  commandment”.

God-the-bliss, assumes the human form of a very nearest and dearest elderly superior man, such as, father. appears, writes the commandment and shows it to the recipient of the commandment.

There is another class of commandment. God in the body speaks. It is called God’s voice. It is heard distinctly. The voice carries so much solemnity that the recipient understands that he will be compelled to carry out of the order.

268)     “A  man  cannot  discharge  the  hard  duty  of  a teacher  until  and

             unless  he  receives  God’s  power  from  God  in  person”

A man plays the role of a teacher only when God in Descent takes the manikin form (Manus Ratan) in him, otherwise not. In this stage it is seen that God is the doer and author of everything from within. “Divine Mother! Am I talking, or you are speaking out from within through me?’---Shri Ramkrishna, God’s voice must be made human to be understood by human beings.

269)     “It  does  not  lie  in  the  power  of  human  being  to  get  God  released

              from  the  bondage  of  the  body  another  human  being”

 If God out of grace frees Himself from the body then there is liberation”.---Shri Ramkrishna.