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 )

(319)                     “ Let your eyes be painted with the collyrium of excessive                                                                        divine love, and then you will be seeing Him”

It is spoken of meditations.

There are two kinds of meditations  :

(1)    Vishnu  Dhyan.

(2)    Shiva  Dhyan.

In the Vishnu Dhyan a man has got to fix his mind at the point of the nose. It is for the purpose of seeing God with form. Of course, it needs a matured condition of meditation when a devotee may see Karan Sarir of the fourth sheath taking a human form made of God’s light. A devotee of Buddha will see Buddha; a devotee of Jesus will see Jesus and a devotee of Shri Ramkrishna will see Shri Ramkrishna. It is God in the body taking the form according to the prayer of the devotee.

Furthermore, there is a developed condition of Yoga in this state. It is called Ardha Bajhya---half the mind within and half the mind outside. Half the mind within is seeing the form of Jesus in the fourth sheath. It is throwing reflection to the other half of the mind in the outside. The devotee is continually seeing the form of Jesus simultaneously both within and without. Of course, it appears only one Jesus. So at this stage wherever he will cast his eyes he will see Jesus.

In the Shiva Dhyan a devotee has got to place his mind at the meeting point of two eye—brows on the forehead. It is meditation of God without form. Ultimately it leads one to the realization of the five stages of Vedanta---viz.,

(1)    God  or  Atma  as  shown  by  God-the-Preceptor.

(2)     The  Universe  within  God.

(3)     God-the  Universe  changes  into  a  Seed.

(4)     The  Seed  is  transformed  into  a  Dream.

(5)     In  the  end  there  remains  no  Dream  and  what  remains  nobody  knows.

(320)      “In that case a devotee sees God in both

          His aspects, i.e. God with form and God without form”.                                                                                                                    

A.  God  with  form ;------                         (i)     God-the  Preceptor.

                                                                  (ii)    ‘Bhagavati  Tanu’                                                                      

                                                                            or Image of God as

                                                                            Seen in the sixth plane.                                

                                                                               

                                               (iii)      Several images of gods 

                                                          and goddesses. 

                                      (iv)    Lastly, it changes into a 

                                                Child---as child Jesus.

                                 

B.  God  without  form;------                    (i)      To see the sky in meditation.

(ii)               To see the God’s light. 

                                                               

                                                                 (iii)     To see God or Atma in the

                                                                            seventh plane.                                                   

                                                                 (iv)    Lastly, to get Atma changed

                                                                            Into Paramatma which happens only in case of a                                                                                     Mahayogi.                                                         

                                                                                                     

 In the human body where God’s emanation happens in full measure it can be understood that God with form and God without form are but both aspects of God in the body lying in an unseen and in an unattached condition.

(321)            “One  cannot  see God  in  the  seventh  plane    

  without  purity  or  inner  mind”.

The mind is lying scattered all over the world. It is to be drawn up the kept confined within the body. Then there will be growth of inner mind. The inner mind purifies itself in the process of transformation and ultimately it turns into pure consciousness. This pure condition of mind reveals in the realization. A man’s face in the front. It is seen to have turned towards the back when the back is seen. An amazing thing happens. The primal force of the body assumes the form of a girl and keeps on repeating---“Let the face be turned in, let the face be turned in.” And this is full measure getting the mind within and to have it kept in a pure condition for ever.

Again, the purity of mind takes place by parts only. A friend used to take part in the feast of the funeral ceremony. Another friend of him said, “well, Thakur has warned not to take parting the feast of the funeral ceremony.” Though warned the first friend did not take it so seriously. He joined in another feast of the funeral ceremony. On the next day of the feast he dreamt—‘At the very same place and on the very same table he was feasting himself with victuals and viands of the same kind has on the last occasion. An amazing thing was happening. Each and every kind of viand tasted like that of a fish. The friend was a strict vegetarian. The taste of fish disgusted him in a degree. He threw out the food from his mouth.’ This dream has got several kinds of meanings but in one sense it signifies inner purification of mind. It is but a partial purification of mind. It brought about a change in the first friend. He stopped taking part in the feast of the funeral ceremony.