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 )
419.
“Near the tank, I (Sri Ramkrishna) got my inward self spontaneously transformed
into God (Samadhi) and though I did not see the Goddess Mrinmoyee before, but I
saw Her there up to the waist”.
How
could it happen?
It
is a feature of realization in the domain of Vedanta.
Thakur’s
body was a perfect barometer which exhibited realizations so far solving the
mystery in connection with God (Iswar), Illusion (Maya), Living Beings (Jiva),
and the Universe (Jagat) and he used to see all these four things
simultaneously and in a linked condition. Thakur had God in him. The Universe
was in God. It was God-the-Universe – one of the greatest sportive forms of
God. In the outside he came nearby to the temple of the Divine Mother Mrinmoyee
to show that the outward Universe and the Universe in God within Thakur were
the same and one. God manifested himself with the form of the Divine Mother
Mrinmoyee in him. The outward Universe was but a reflection of the Universe in
God within Thakur, or ‘I’ or ego. So far, it was in Ascent. But again in
Descent this outward Universe was real and an aspect of God. Both the features
were but different aspects of God. In the ‘Gospel of Sri Ramkrishna’, Sri ‘M’,
the author, an earnest and real devotee of Thakur made this remark, “Well, he
(Thakur) did not give away the Universe by declaring that it was an illusion;
on the contrary, he declared that the Universe was real”.
Similar
realization like the Divine Mother Mrinmoyee came upon Thakur, while he had
been in Navadwip – a holy place in Bengal. Throughout the length and breadth of
the locality he had not a bit of realization manifested in his body. He
wondered, how could it be? Was it not the place where Sri Chaitanya and Sri
Nityananda had been? But after all no iota of realization came upon him. Then
he came to the bank of the Ganges (river) and boarded a boat there. He was yet
in a standing posture when all on a sudden he cried out, “They are coming down,
they are coming down upon me”! and he got Samadhi. Afterwards he related that
he boarded the boat, stood on the deck and saw that the forms of Sri Chaitanya
and Sri Nityananda made of God’s Light with an aura in a circular shape around
their faces and heads came down upon him and vanished. By this realization he
came to the conclusion that this was the locality where Sri Chaitanya and Sri
Nityananda had been living and then in the course of time, the locality was
absorbed by the Ganges.
But
of course, this realization took place within Thakur. In Vishnu Dhyan or
meditation known as Vishnu, when half of the mind was within and half of the
mind was in the outside, it appeared that he saw this in the outside. But it
was not so. Had it been in the outside then it would have been seen by one and
all.
420.
“But Kaluvira was the most favorite of the Divine Mother”.
(Kaluvira
was a hero in one of the epics of Bengal.)
The
most favorite – means that God in Kaluvira manifested in a greater degree in
comparison with other men of the era.
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