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 )

483. “Every now and then one should retire in solitude, pray to God for being ‘Perfect’, or to be one with Him, or getting transformed into Godhead”.

Solitude does not mean ‘Alexander Selkirk’ in the island or alone in the Himalayan cave or in the desert of Sahara or in the forest of Africa. It simply means a place where there is no kith and kin of a man so that he may have an undiverted attention and the mind may be at rest and peace.

This is Vividisha. This Brahma Vidya or Supreme Culture or culture which makes a man spiritually One with all the rest of the human race cannot be had by self-exertion. It is Para Vidya and not Apara Vidya. In Para Vidya the knowledge comes spontaneously from within and Apara Vidya means the knowledge got from the outside.

Not unlike the Rishis of the ancient time Thakur declared openly, “Yes, I have seen God”. Whereas, in case of Buddha, he did not do so; he did not see God. In case of Buddha, it was self-exertion and in case of Thakur, it was spontaneous. Just remember – eleven years old lad Ramkrishna (Gadadhar then) on his way to the village Anur saw Light within and got Samadhi. This was the fountainhead from which every other realizations followed.

This Thakur’s ‘Seeing of God’ did not bear any proof as chalked out in the Vedas – “Twam Jato Bhavasi Viswatomukhah”.

In short, it is not acknowledge in the Vedas.

Universalle-La’-Homme or the Universal Man bears the insignia of the saying of the Bible – “Be Perfect as your Father in Heaven is Perfect”.

The Vedic Truth also declared long long ago – “The Man in the Sun is Perfect”. Otherwise perfection does not follow.

484. “He who with all the tendencies of life, mind and the innermost self, has merged into God is Sadhu”.

God alone is Sadhu or Perfect or Advaitam.

A MAN becomes GOD. He is seen within by thousands and thousands and in the some cases He says openly, “Hello, look here! Do you know who I am? I am God”. Really, it is wonder of wonders!

485. “Renunciation of ‘woman and wealth’ is the denomination of a Sadhu”.

It is secondary. A man may feign it.

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 )

480. “Both father and mother are to be looked upon as god and goddess”.

Here it is a combination of the two ideas; Servant and Son. Hanuman serves Rama and here Hanuman is a servant. Jesus cries out “Father! Father”! Here Jesus is a Son. If a son serves his parents with such earnestness and zeal then he may get realization of the sixth plane, i.e. God with form. It is called Sahajiya or the easy way.

In Universalism there is no ‘Father’ or ‘Mother’.

To worship God as ‘Father’ or ‘Mother’ is an imaginary data and it is called Bhava, a false start of emotion for reaching Godhood and a man cannot get his end. The Vedic Truth stands good and the man from Brahmapura must come; otherwise, no goal can be reached.

Sometimes in dream ‘Father’ and ‘Mother’ are seen, but there they represent “The First man” (Adi Purusha) and “The Primordial Force” or Kundalini.

481. “If a man takes to the family-life after attainment of God then no physical connection remains with the wife”.

It is Thakur’s own life. Not that he neglected his wife but on the contrary the Holy Mother was worshipped by him as goddess.

The lust vanishes from the body. “When there is Rama, there is no Kama (lust)”.

“The love of the washer-woman is like pure gold, symbol of Atman, and it does not carry the least smell of lust”. – Chandidas

The lust has left the man and its outward manifestation is visible in the body. Let somebody utter the word ‘lust’ before him or let him utter the word Kama, he shall get Samadhi.

It is Pratyahar of Yoga and it means to cast off.

The sound of the word may pollute the body of the devotee. He (God in the man is in an awakened condition) manifests Himself to a degree and saves the body from the contamination of pollution.

482. “The common people cannot reckon them”.

Common people – means those people who think that they are ‘bodies’, a lump of flesh and blood only, and having no sense of God within, nay, a bit more, devoid of the sense that he is born to become God.

“The sole aim of this life is to get transformed into God”. – Sri Ramkrishna

Cannot reckon them – yes, it is very difficult to recognize a True man. It needs grace of God and Yoga. God within you will assume the form of the True man living in the outside and appear within you, i.e. a True man lives being merged in God – i.e. a True or Perfect or Real man has got his abode in every man. This is the only test for a True man.

“The publicity of the True man is given by God”. – Sri Ramkrishna

It is Universalism and Universalism only which reveals the True man as pointed out by Rabindranath Tagore, “Yes, there is a ‘Man’ in us and that Man crossing the border of the individual ‘mandom’ always abides in the heart (cerebrum – the seventh plane) of each and every member of the human race” – and this saying of Rabindranath runs abreast with the teachings of the Vedas, but with ‘Diamond’ it is His life-picture.

Again to add to it, Dr. Tagore borrowed it from the Baul Sampradaya of Bengal and with them also it is but an imagery. With us even at the present era it is de facto and the first alive appearance in the human life of the prayers of the Vedic Rishis and the human race alike.