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 )
(322) “Then God
attracts and draws
the mind
as a
magnet attracts and
draws a needle”.
(323) “Then
comes ‘Samadhi’ and ‘God
is seen’.
Samadhi---is one sense means
transformation of life—power into God within the body.
First comes Unamana Samadhi.
The life—power is transformed into a point made of God’s light at the middle of
the two eye—brows. The scattered mind is collected, changed into a point and
located between the two eye—brows. Then the mind enters into the seventh plane,
takes the form of Atma and God i
(324) “You
may exert yourself thousands
of time but
without God’s
grace nothing can be had”.
God can be had by the grace
of God and not by self—exertion.
“Whom God accepts as a
bride, He gives His grace to him and it happens with him”.
It means that it is with
him in whom the life—power automatically is transformed into God. A devotee
terms it as ‘God’s grace.’
(325) “Ego
must be annihilated
in toto”.
With the annihilation of ego there comes a
spontaneous revelation. Ego lessens in course of transformation and revelations
come.
(326) “The egoism
that ‘I am
the Master’
debars one
from seeing God”.
In the course of
transformation of life-power the egoism spontaneously evaporates. One need not
exert himself to obtain this state; on exertion on one’s part can help him to
obtain this disposition. As by God’s grace realizations proceed, so, in that
proportion elimination of egoism goes on.
A man having no egoism is not
conscious of his own state. It happens after obtaining complete and through
Supreme Bliss. When a man becomes a teacher, he comes to understand this state.
He talks about God and finds he is not talking, but God from within is talking
through his organ. Thakur often used to say, “Mother, I do not talk, but you,
from within, talk”.
(327) “The man
who imposes himself
as master,
in
him God does
not easily appear”.
There is no room for two in
the seventh plane. Two does not exist. Only one exist and that one is God. From
one comes two and many.
(328) “God shines like the Sun of Knowledge. A
single ray of
His illuminates the world
with the light of Knowledge.
So one becomes
conscious of ones own state in
comparison with others”.
God within is like the Sun of
Knowledge. ‘I’ am but one of His rays and this ray appears direct from the Sun.
‘I’ and Sun have got direct connection. The sun bears and reveals the Universe.
The Sun, the Universe and ‘I’ are interlinked and have got straight connection.
This is not metaphor. There is no room for any kind of figure of speech here.
It is seen and realized. The first one happens at the entrance to the seventh
plane when the Sun is seen the Universe within God and this is ascribed as the
beginning of special Knowledge about God. What is special Knowledge? What is
God? He who holds the Universe within Him is God. But it is also only one
aspect of God. The Universe is but a reflection in the mirror of ‘I’ .
(329) “In the dark of night the
police-sergeant with a lantern
(lantern of the night-watch) in his hand goes
his rounds.
No one sees his face.”
God is within you. He is witnessing every
bit of your action. Nothing escapes him. But you are not conscious of it by an
iota.
“The light of the lantern
helps the police-sergeant to see everybody face, and all others also can see
one another”
The mind of a man is in the
outside. He is seeing the Universe and all else in the outside. It is God’s
light enabling us to see everything but we are not aware that the light is
coming from within.
(330) “Oh Sir, take pity, turn the light of
Knowledge on your
own face and let me see you for once at
least.
The mind is withdrawn from the
Universe and kept confined in the body. Then
follows realizations of God’s
sportive forms in full measure, of course, by God’s grace, then seeing of the
God (Atma)in the seventh plane; it is succeeded by ‘Supreme Knowledge’; again
it turns into ‘Knowledge of thou’, subsequently follows Descent as in an
incarnation of God or Avatar.
Police—sergeant---represents
God. If God out of His grace reveals Himself in the human body then these
sportive forms of God are seen and realized. Ultimately a man becomes God and
the mystery of the human life is solved.
