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 )

473. “At nightfall the glow worm flees hither and thither and it thinks that it lights the world”.

It means the light of the candle as seen in the fourth plane. A devotee sees this and thinks with wonder, “What is this! What is this”!

474. “The stars appear in the sky”.

In the sixth plane when flashes of lights are seen.

475. “The moon rises”.

Moon – is the symbol of Bhakti.

She is seen in the cerebrum in Samadhi known as Chetan when consciousness remains from the neck to the seventh plane. Chetan is the name of the Samadhi in Bhakti-yoga.

476. “The sun rises”.

Sun – is the symbol of Knowledge – Jnana.

It is also seen in Samadhi when a man attains Brahma-Jnana.

477. “The moon fades and is no more seen”.

With the advent of Knowledge the Devotion vanishes.

“After seeing God there remains no ritualistic religion for the man”.

– Sri Ramkrishna

Ritualism is a part and parcel of devotion or Bhakti. A man starts with ritualism and stops there. No evolution follows.

To clarify, let us point out Thakur’s own life. In India, there were innumerable Kali-temples. Thakur was a worshipper, Pujari, in one temple. He came out of the temple being ‘One’, i.e. identical with the goddess of the temple. Why it did not so happen with other Pujaris – priests? Their start and finish remained the same.