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 )

526. “If the arum is good then its shoots become good. Like father like son”.

It speaks of heredity. In Vividisha a good heredity is an essential requirement for attainment of this Brahma Vidya or culture. Really it is not so. It is God’s grace – the only thing that is required.

In Universalism there is no bar for a man to eat the ‘Mango’ as every man is Brahma in embryo because he is born as a man. It is his birthright.

527. “The holy man makes God known to the aspirant”.

Holy man – is God-the-Preceptor.

He is seen within the body. He is made of God’s Light. He is nobody else but God with the form of a man who has become an Avatar. It is he who shows God to the aspirant. Aspirant has no form. He has become Atman. He has pure consciousness there within this Atman. This pure consciousness sees and hears. He sees God-the-Preceptor from there and also hears God-the-Preceptor speaking – stretching his hand and pointing with his first finger, “This is God! This is seeing God”!! – and then God-the-Preceptor is merged in the God – within whom the aspirant is with pure consciousness (Suddha Man). It is wonder of the wonders to the seer as he did never conceive such thing, did never read it in any book nor did he hear it from anybody.

The Vedic version is that God is beyond the conception of the human mind and speech. Thakur differs. He declares it emphatically that “God is seen by pure consciousness”. The writer collecting all the emphatics in him openly declares that Thakur is wonderfully correct and accurate. Thakur’s version runs thus “To see God is the sole purpose of the human life”.