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 )

281)     “For  a  bit  of  fleecy  cloud  the  sun  is  not  visible”

It is the entrance to the seventh plane when a thin silken curtain is seen hanging and sun is shining behind it,

282)     “The  cloud  is  removed  and  the  sun  is  seen”

The thin silken curtain is removed and God is shown by God-the-Preceptor in the seventh plane.

283)     “If  by  the  grace  of  God-the-Preceptor,

              ego  vanishes  then  a  man  sees  God”

The consciousness that ‘I-am-He’ springs up in a man and he sees that God and the Universe is within God. All these happen within him and his vision is confined within. Again, when he opens his eyes, he finds the Universe before him and it transpires that God-the-Universe within and outside are but identical.

284)     “God  is  nearest  of  all  to  us”.

God is within a man and he carries God within himself.

285)     “Each  additional  attribute  of  ego

              Tightens  the  bondage  of  a  man”

More the worldly senses grow, more the man is distracted from the path of God.

286)     :A frog  had  some  money  in  his  hole. One  day  an  elephant  walked  over  the  hole,

The  frog  in a  fit  of  anger  came  out, uplifted  its  foot  and  showed  a kick  to  the     elephant”

Wealth is another factor keeping a man in separation from God. Sometimes elephant, i.e., white elephant i.e, mind hankers after God, but the weight of wealth arrests its upward course.

287)     “The  light  is  seen  within  a lantern  but  it  cannot  be  touched”.

It is in the sixth plane that a lantern, with a light within, it seen.

288)     “This  ‘ego’ standing  between  man  and  God  keeps  them  in  separation”.

A tripartite distinction has been drawn here between man, ego and God. It is simply to make the thing clear. They are but three aspects of the very same thing. When the ego dies, a man is transformed into God. “The Primal force and the Supreme Self are identical.”---Shri Ramkrishna.

289)     “It  is  only  one  or  two  who, by  getting  themselves

             transformed  into  God,  can  get  rid  of  ego”.  

It is only one man in an era. Thakur was the sole man in his era.

290)     “If  ego  is  adamant  and  not  disposed  to  leave  you  at  all,  all  right

              let  the  rascal  remain  as  a  servant  to  God”.

This is ego of the sixth plane. It is here that God with form is first seen and a devotee surrenders himself to his deity.

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 )

276)     “A  man’s  ego  vanishes  with  three  signs”.

As per Tantra it needs but three stages of realizations and a man’s ego disappears and disappears for good. They are:

(i)    To  see  God  with  form.

(ii)    To  witness  the  sportive  forms  of  in  the  seventh  plane.

(iii)    Lastly  to  merge  into  the  Great  Cause.

As per  Vedas,  three  signs  are :---

(i)  Knowledge, (ii)  Knowable,  (iii)  Knower. [Jana-Jyayo-Jnata - the Triputi (Three  in  one) condition]

God-the-Preceptor is Knowledge in person; God is the Knowable Object (Ishwar  Bastu  Lit; God—the Object); and Knower is consciousness. It comprises and comprehends seeing of God in the seventh plane as showed by God-the-Preceptor.

277)     “A  man  without  God’s  commandment  cannot  get 

             God  freed  from  the  body  of  his  disciples.”

A man can never play the role of a preceptor---Shri Ramkrishna.

If a man accepts any other man as a preceptor then that man will never be liberated from the bondage of body. The man who was got God’s commandment will appear as God-the-Preceptor within the body of a true devotee and teaches him all the processes of transformation of the life-power into the Supreme Bliss—the whole course of Rajayoga.

278)     “This  human  body  and  the  egousm  in  the  are

               but  the  causes  of  bondage (Maya)”.

A man thinks himself that he is this body of flesh and blood and the egoism in him leads him to the wrong course of asserting his superiority. Maya, literally, is illusion. It is the sense the Vedantists ascribe to her. But the whole episode of the mystery of Maya is solved in the Descent in the incarnation of God (Avatarbad). But Vedanta has no Descent or the incarnation of God in it. She is identified with a woman. This Maya has got for stages. They are ‘---

(i)    She exists.

(ii)   She exists and does not exist both at the same time.

(iii)  She is not in existence.

(iv) She is not in existence but also exists.

(i)   She exists---She is real in her Universal aspect.

(ii)   She exists and does not exist both at the same time---The continuous changes in the process of the transformation of life-power as seen with all her various aspects on her way till the evaporates.

(iii)   She is not in existence---It is but extinction of the sense of egoism.

(iv) She is not in existence but also exists---‘I am not but Thou’ “Thou art the Master. Thou art the Lord”. But there is a tinge of ego simply to speak out the glory of “Thou”. It is real love of God (Paka Bhakti) in the Descent.

Maya, in short, is but another aspect of God in which His various sportive forms get their manifestation and display. It is Maya which induces one to thank about God and ultimately she transforms herself into God, thus revealing her own true self as God with attributes, without attributes, and also in Descent as incarnation of God or Avatar.

279)    “This egoism  has  kept  everything  latent”.

It does not permit the true Self to get expressions in the form of reality. “When there is one false master (i.e.,ego) in the store, the real master does not come”.---Shri Ramkrishna.

280)    “Every  trouble  ends  when  ‘ego’ dies”.

It is to be merged in the Great Cause ( Sthita Samadhi). Descent is an extraordinary case and it seldom happens. It only happens to them who are specially marked for it by God.