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 )

(363)                     “Gold lies latent in Vidyasagar.  Had he but the least scent of gold in him, then in his all outward activities would have reduced, nay, but stopped together,”

Gold---represents  Atma  or  God.

If there is manifestation of God in full measure in the seventh plane, then there remains no outward activity. Thakur used to say, “Yes, I shall be eating, I shall be sleeping and I shall be simply existing (carrying on one’s existence for the sake of existence only). But if he is found to do anything else, it is to be understood that he is forced to do so by God’s commandment. And this work consists only in singing the glory of God as seen by him in his body in the process of transformation of life-power into the Supreme Bliss.

(364)                         “In  the  end,  every  activity  stops”.

It is to attain the condition of the Absolute.

(365)                         “kindness  bears  equal  love  for  every  created  being”.

 It means to be one and same with the whole Universe. An episode in Thakur’s life will clear it. Thakur was in his room in the temple of Dakshineswar. In the bathing platform on the bed of the Ganges there ensued a quarrel between two boatmen. One boatmen gave a good slap on the back of another boatman. The latter cried out and along with his cry, Thakur in his room, though he had no knowledge of the occurrence, cried out in equal pitch.  

The noise of the cry was so much that Shri Hridaya (nephew of Thakur) heard it, came into the room and saw the mark of five fingers on the back of Thakur. Shri Hridaya was in wrath. He could not squeeze out any cause from Thakur who was silent. Shri Hridaya ran hither and thither about the occurrence and saw the boatman with marks of five fingers on his back. He was simply amazed and came back into Thakur’s room.

This is to be one and same with the Universe and this is kindness. I do love but myself and here ‘myself’  identical with the Universe. But this state does not last for ever and happens when the mind comes down to the fourth plane. This is not ‘Universalism’. It is tasted once in the life of a devotee and then it passes away.

(366)                   “But Brahama is beyond the three attributes oCreation,  Preservation and  Destruction”.

The three attributes, (Triguna) of Preservation (Sattva), Creation (Rajas) and Destruction (Tamas) are manifested in the activity of a man’s life. A man’s activity is coloured with one of the three attributes and by its colour the activity is recognized and read. God, the Absolute, is beyond any kind of activity.

(367)                   “He  is  beyond  Primal  Power”.

Primal power has been transformed into God, the Absolute. It is to be changed into the First Cause or Great Cause.

(368)                  “These  three  attributes  Triguna  are  but  robbers”.

When there is a robber, there is a master house. The master of the house is God. The robber has got no right or claim over the house. He is but a false personnel and he is identical with illusion (Maya). Maya means that which does not exist. Attribute is like a colour and Maya, by this false attribute, declares her existence as real. Maya is also a transitory aspect of God.

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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 )

(357)               “Padmalochan though a devotee in the Path of ‘Knowledge’

                  (Jnani), yet, respected me like anything inspite of my repeating

                   Before him ‘Oh Divine Mother, Oh Divine Mother!”

Padmalochan, a great Sanskrit scholar, a big Pundit, did not see Atma or God. So he was not a man of Knowledge Gyani. He was a devotee. Furthermore, he was a learned man ; as such, he tried to get God by discrimination, and that cannot be done.

(358)                   “When he (Padmalochan) heard* Ramprosad’s song from me,

                        tears rolled down his cheeks in devotion”.

These tears of Padmalochan bore the testimony that he was a devotee. He was a lucky and blessed man as he came in contact with Thakur and heard the name of the Divine Mother from Thakur. Thakur’s utterance of ‘Mother’ brought a flood of devotion in Padmalochan ; so tears rolled down his cheeks.

*  Ramprasad of Bengal was a real devotee and  

made many devotional songs. His songs are very

popular like that of Italian Tasso.

(359)                      “Once Padmalochan was asked to decide which of the two deities,

                           Siva or Brahma, was the greater ? With a child’s simplicity he said,

                          “I do not know, Neither I, nor my ancestors back to the fourteenth

                            generations have ever seen Siva or Brahma”.

Padamalochan had no knowledge of the Causal body (Bhagabati Tanu). It is this Causal body in the sixth plane which takes the human shape made of God’s light appears before a devotee and talks with him. A devotee sees and hears Him or Her. In case of a superior receptacle this Causal body takes various forms of gods and goddesses, Avatars, saints etc. It helped one to understand that the very same causal body is changed into various forms. “He is blessed who was come to know the mystery of One changing into many”.

                                                                                                                    ----     Shri Ramkrishna

(360)                    “Ah  poor  me!  I  do  not  know .

                         But  I  do  relish  ‘Woman  and  Gold”.

Thakur’s body renounced ‘Woman and gold’. It was a spontaneous renunciation and not by practicing any spiritual discipline or self-exertion. If this mystery of renunciation is spoken out it cannot be understood by an ordinary man. So he evaded explaining the cause.

(361)                     “When he got back partial consciousness he began to

                          utter only ‘Ka’, ‘Ka’ (The first two letters of ‘Kali)’.

There was a tremendously vain Pundit (a learned scholar in Sanskrit). He did not believe in God with forms.

      God revealed Himself as Primal Power to the Pundit. He saw Kali and lost consciousness. When         he regained partial consciousness he commenced uttering ‘Ka’, ‘Ka’, ‘Ka’. Such happens with             one when he sees God with form, made of God’s light, for the first time.

      The scene was in the temple of Dakshineswar at the foot * Panchavati.

      Latu Maharaj (afterwards Swami Adbhutananda, a disciple of Thakur) was lying senseless on his       back. Thakur with on e of the feet was rubbing Latu’s breast and said, “Be quiet and silent ; you         have got a very poor drinking capacity. You have seen divine Mother, ‘Kali’, so you are wailing         and shouting like this. Be quiet”.

     * Five trees of different species clustered together. It is looked upon a holy and befitting place for        meditation and prayer. Panchavati is an outward symbol of Muladhar with five different currents,        named---(i) Ida, (ii) Pingala, (iii) Sushumna, (iv) Chitra, and (v) Vajrani—in the human body.               These currents make their way through the spine into the cerebrum when Kundalini or life-power        is awakened. Muladhar is the resting place of the life-power and it situates between the sexual            organ and the anus.

 (362)                    “Vidyasagar (the then Principal of the Sanskrit College in Calcutta and the most learned Sanskrit scholar of the time) has both scholarship and kindness ; but he lacks in inner sight”.

The sight is scattered in the outer world. It is to be collected and kept confined in the body. Then the third eyein the sixth plane will be opened and the vista of divine knowledge will appear.