RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

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 )

465. “Fettered one is Jiva and freed from fetters is Siva”.

A fettered man is Jiva and this very man when freed from fetters is Siva.

Every ordinary man is a Jiva.

Who is this Siva?

Thakur while in a boat passing by the bathing platform of Manikarnika (name of the bathing platform on the Ganges) in Benares saw Siva standing on the river with all the graveness of the world. The image slowly came and merged in Thakur. Is this Siva? No.

It is but a reflection of the causal body of Thakur. This causal body within casts its reflection on the eye in the river bank and so Siva was seen by him. Nobody else on the bank or in the boat saw Siva.

This form of Siva was but an imagery.

Siva is He who brings ‘Unity in Diversity’?

How can this be achieved?

When a Jiva becomes Siva, this comes automatically. This Siva in the form of the very same Jiva will be seen by thousands and thousands of men, women, children and old men, even thieves, rouges, rascals and the vilest criminals included and they will announce the truth and the mystery of the human life as done in the Svetasvatara Upanishad by the ancient Rishis, “Thou art man, Thou art woman, Thou art boys, Thou art girls, Thou art the very old man tottering on the stick, and verily, Thou art the whole human race”.

This is Siva by establishing Oneness in the shape of a living person within every human being.

It exceeds the ‘Practical Vedanta’ as pointed out by Swami Vivekananda (vide the dialogue between the disciple and Swamiji in Vol. VII, page 161 of his Complete Works – Mayavati edition).

Truth is One. It concerns the human race and its proof will be borne by them.

466. “By an un-diverted devotion to God a man may get Bhakti”.

Even this devotion or Bhakti cannot be had without Yoga and that Yoga must be spontaneous.

467. “To attain ‘Pure Love’ in ecstasy to God is a rare thing”.

Bhakti is no more a devotion but now it is love and a pure one.

Nowhere in the Bhakti Sastras. i.e. in the scriptures dealing with devotion to and love of God, ‘Pure Love’ has been properly described. Only the popular idea and imagination have been set forth.

By Mahayoga ‘Pure Love’ can be asserted by transforming others into one’s own self in the spiritual world. A man becomes God. God is love. This love asserts itself by transforming in the spiritual world within any and every man by placing his own God-self in the shape of his own living person.

Yes, it is the highest manifestation of Pure Love which has never been evident in the annals of the world.

No, it was not established by any of the past teachers of the world such as Zoroaster, Moses, Buddha down to Ramkrishna.

Only it was announced in the ancient era of India – “I am one, but I shall be many”.

Though the announcement was made but it was left unrealized and unproved.

It is realized and proved now.