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 )
(376)
“An ego of knowledge was kept in him (Sukdeva) by God”
This state is seen and realized by
the devotee. He is in deep meditation, may, in Samadhi. In Samadhi he sees that
an exquisitely beautiful and soothing lady, made of God’s light, very
carefully, quietly and calmly approaches him on his back, spreads her arms and
keeps her arms over the arms of the devotee. The touch of the lady is so much
so soothing that it fills the devotee with ambrosia-like sweetness from head to
foot. The lady merges herself in the body of the devotee and simultaneously it
breaks open into the mind of the devotee---the lady representing ego of
Knowledge (Vidya maya).
(377) “I am His servant, His devotee ; I am not the doer
but He is the doer”.
It is but natured devotion in the
state of Tattvajnan of ‘Knowledge of Thou’. Here ego is but a watery line in an
ocean.
(378) “I told him, ‘Why don’t you read
befitting signs in a man and then accept
him as a Disciple?”
Indiscrimination in making a disciple does not help
anybody in any way”.
Parikshit (the man is whose body
God-the-preceptor appears) is the befitting man to listen Bhagavat---about the
display of God in the human body---as realization, at least in a certain
extent, will follow; otherwise there will be no realization at all. One cannot
be a Parikshit without attaining God-the-Preceptor in him. They are also
reckoned as Parikshit whom God shows to Sukdeva---“Well, all these are real
devotees and they shall be coming in contact with you.” It was so shown by the
Divine Mother to Thakur and Thakur saw them long before they came in each
other’s contact. It is also essential on the part of the devotee to get Thakur
as God-the-Preceptor. In that event there will be no faltering in the devotee.
“The father has taken charge of the son”.
(379) “Keshab (Keshab Chandra Sen,
Leader of the Brahma Samaj in India)
acknowledged the
Divine Mother ‘Kali’ (Primal Force---).”
Through the grace of Thakur,
Keshab saw the Divine Mother Kali.
(380) “Bhagavat, Devotee and
God---the trio. They are same and one.”
“God manifests and expresses
Himself in the body. In whose body He manifests, he hears God in him and he is
the devotee. And narration of God’s display in the body is Bhagavat.
(381) “Preceptor (Guru) God with form (Krishna) and
the devotee (Vaishnaba)”.
Preceptor---is the invisible and
unattached God lying pervading the body both in the inside and also in the
outside of the body. The invisible God comes down within the body with a human
form, made of God light.
(It is Krishna or Jesus or God-the-Preceptor).
He who bears this God with form is a devotee. The man who is blessed with
God-the-Preceptor, gets realizations both in Ascent and Descent. Of course,
there is a variation in the degree of realization. In a big receptacle, the
manifestation is in full degree and in a
small one, it yields but a taste only.
(382) “It is very hard to go beyond
the three attributes of
Creation, Preservation, and
Destruction (Triguna)”.
It means to live after full liberation
of God from the body and also after attainment of the Supreme knowledge (here
ascent ends ; in other words, it is to live in Descent which happens only in
case of an Avatar or incarnation of God.
(383) “Without attaining God in the body
this condition does not come”.
God or Atma as shown by
God-the-Preceptor in the seventh plane is to be seen and attained ; then and
then aloner a man can go beyond the three attributes and get merged in the
First Cause.
