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 )

    (337)                   “A flattering disciple of Keshab once told him, “you are the God-consciousness

                                 (Chaitanya) of this Ironera”. Shri Keshab pointed out me (Thakur), smiled and

                                   said, “Then who is he?”

 It was Shri Keshab Chandra Sen, the leader of Brahma Samaj in Calcutta, who came to know, of course through Grace of Thakur, that Thakur was an incarnation of God, as God-consciousness came down in Descent (Nigam) in  Thakur, God Himself gives publicity about the incarnation of God. He is in every man. He will take the form of the incarnation of God and appear before the man in dream, in trance, in meditation, or in an awakened condition and tell him, “Do you know who I am?”

 (338)                   “As  if  Siva (another name of God) has  come  out after  penetrating  the

                               earth  and  not  (the  image) set  up  by  human  hands”.

God out of His own will expresses and manifests Himself in the human body and not to be obtained by self-exertion. The question may rise---“What others will do?” The answer is the life of Jesus and Shri Ramkrishna.Others will lead their lives according to the instructions as given to them by their (Jusus and Shri Ramkrishna) own lives !.

 (339)                  “Only  some  of  the  birds  have  crooked  beaks”.

 

Beak of the bird---represents Adam’s apple in the throat of a man. Every man has got an Adam’s apple in his throat. Projecting out of this Adam’s apple is not a good sign in the process of transformation of life-power. If this Adam’s apple projects out in the throat then there cannot be emanation of God in full measure.

“A bird with Adam’s apple in its throat cannot learn to whistle or to talk”-----Shri Ramkrishna.

 (340)              “A man with spontaneous of God in the body (Nitya Siddha) is like a bee

                         which lights only on flowers and sips the honey”.

 Flower---represents cerebrum, or lotus with thousand Petals—the seventh plane.

 Honey---is the Supreme Bliss comes under such an easy control of the man with spontaneous emanation of God in the body that He transforms himself into the Supreme Bliss every now and then, and the turn of his mind is such that it does not permit him to take part an any mundane matter.

 

(341)                 “A meadow is filled with paddy. One has got to cross the meadow.

                           No alternative for him but he has to walk in a round about way

                           along the balk”.

 Meadow----here represents this human body.

To cross the meadow---means to go through the body in the process of transformation of the life power and to reach the seventh plane.

Round about way along the balk---is spoken about the ritualistic devotion.

The whole metaphor indicates that a man with ritualistic devotion can hardly expect to get the life-power transformed into Supreme Bliss .

(342)                “There is a village nearby. A man wants to come there. He takes a boat, launches it

                           in a winding river and tries to reach there by this round about way.”

Here also it is spoken about the ritualistic devotion. It is pointed out that it is like a winding river-course for going to a village nearby---the seventh plane.

Thakur means to say that by self-exertion, such as observing spiritual disciplines, there is hardly any chance for one to get God in him.

 (343)                 “When a man gets his life-power awakened, then manifestations of God in various

                             sportive forms take place and there crops up a love to God as He is the nearest and

                             dearest kith and kin; then it becomes, as if, to cross a rice-field from where all

                             crops have been harvested. It is a plain field now and one has not to walk on the

                             balk.One can go in any direction straight across the field.”

Here it is related to the condition of the man who gets spontaneous manifestation of God in the body.

(344)                    “ One has not to row through the winding river if the country is

                                flooded deep with water.  Then water runs twenty cubits deep

                          on the field . Let one row his boat straight.”

It is spoken about life-power. There are two stages of awakening of life-power.

(1)The first stage is called awakening of Kundalini or life-power. She has got two aspects. One is animal aspect and another is divine aspect. As long as life-power runs in the outside world, it has got animal aspect. But when life-power makes its course through the body towards the cerebrum or the seventh plane then she gets her divine aspect.

(2)In the second stage this life-power within gets nineteen times stronger and mighter than the first stage.   Hence it is called Mahavayu.

The second condition is shown in this way : It takes place within the body. The world is lying open before your very sight. There is a boat on the other end of the world. Within twinkling of an eye the boat comes arunning to you. She has a straight course and the stops near you.

It is also manifested in the body. If one comes in contact with such a man and if you simply ask him, “Well Sir, have you got your Mahavayu awakened in you?”---before he can answer you, his abdomen will commence shaking violently in a jumping posture, his body will be shaking violently in a writhing posture, his head will be moving on the neck like a pendulum and finally he will go into deep Samadhi. It is the Supreme Cult ; it will be heard and it will come upon the body in outward manifestation expressing the condition of inward transformation.