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 )

409. “An unknown man whom the child has never seen before, appears and says, ‘Well, come along with me, I shall be taking you to your mother’. The child will accompany him and the child will be taken on shoulder by the unknown man”.

It is an instance of a child who in his play has forgotten everything. After sometime, the child is satiated with his play, nay, he becomes disgusted with his play. He feels a keen yearning to go to his mother.

Mother – God – the Absolute.

Child – I or ego.

God-the-Preceptor – God with form (Saguna Brahma).

Child represents any and every man in the world. Being forgetful of his real self he keeps on holding a chase after illusion. He seeks and runs after something but he does not know what it is. He gets himself disgusted. Then he turns towards God and feels a great yearning for Him. At this turning point God, out of grace, appears before the man as God-the-Preceptor. This God-the-Preceptor is an unknown man and he will take the man on His shoulder.

“The father has taken the child on his shoulder”.

– Sri Ramkrishna

It is seen.

The Master with Sri ‘M’ and other devotees

At Dakshineswar Temple

August 19, 1883

410. “It relates about Knowledge of the Self”.

Knowledge of the Self is divided into two parts. One is Ascent and the other is Descent. Ascent has two aspects:–

(1) God with attributes.

(2) God without attributes.

A devotee in the process of transformation of Life Power becomes identical with Atman. This is the first aspect of Ascent. The second aspect is the state of no-ego-consciousness. A devotee of an ordinary type (Jivakoty) does not come down. He gets Maha Nirvana or melts into the First Cause. It is called liberation in the true sense of the term.

In spite of getting melted in the First Cause if a devotee comes down in Descent then starts ‘Grand force of Life Power’ – Mahavayu and ‘Grand transformation of Life Power – Mahayoga. This is the stage which has been described and compared by Thakur as a paddy-field from where crops have been harvested and ‘a locality which is flooded with deep water’. At this stage a devotee sees Param (Grand) Atman. This seeing of Paramatman happens long before realization of Divine Consciousness (Chaitanya) which flares up in a brilliant red light in the seventh plane. But all these realizations happen with Avatars only.

411. “I am Grand Atman or Paramatman”.

There is a certain sect who repeats this thing; not that they have attained this stage but they simply keep on repeating. On their part it is pure and simple imagination. Because the man who is blessed with this realization gets his angle of vision changed and becomes a right royal devotee in these five forms viz.: –

(i) a servant to God;

(ii) a friend to God; 

(iii) father or mother to God;

(iv) a lady-love of God; or,

(v) absolute quietness.

But mere repetition ‘I am Paramatman’ does not help one to attain this state.

412. “They are Vedantists”.

Vedantists are they who realize God in the seventh plane in five different sportive forms, viz.: –

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

(2) God holding the Universe within Him.

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

(4) Seed in its turn changed into a Dream.

(5) Dream Vanishes.

... What remains nobody knows and the ego-consciousness has been merged into the Great Cause. These Vedantists are seekers of liberation or Maha Nirvana. They get only realizations of Ascent and they do not know anything of Descent.

413. “This is the idea entertained by the sanyasis or monks”.

Who is a Sanyasi?

Sanyasi – means one who has given up everything. In short, this human body is the only property which a man has got. To give up everything means that he will realize that he is identical and one with God. To have this stage there will be an emanation of God in full measure from the body. It means separation of body and God. Its manifestation will come physically.

This transformation of Life Power has got its own singular sign. No sooner separation of God from the body will be heard by him, his neck will keep on moving from right to left and left to right and in its course it will be making sound like that of a dried betel-nut in a shell or a dried coconut in a shell. Without this special yogic sign a man cannot be a true Sanyasi or ‘given up-of all’.