JIBANKRISHNA OR DIAMOND THE HOLY GHOST AND MY DIARY OF DIVINE DREAMS

Chapter 7

                     

FORECAST ABOUT MY FUTURE BY SRI RAMKRISHNA

20)   3^rd September, 1972,  At noon I had a dream—A known monk of Sri Ramkrishna order had come to our house .After some conversations he told me, ‘Sri Ramkrishna Deva told me through a dream that after entering the College, you will have non-addiction of woman and wealth’. Here the dream suddenly went off.

[Diamond used to term Atman Visualization as matriculation pass in the spiritual world. Accordingly, the seer, after visualization of Atman (dream no 20) has passed matriculation examination and is going to enter College life. 

Detachment of woman and wealth means the seer will have no addiction for these two in his future life.]

GOD-THE-PRECEPTOR’S  BLESSINGS  FALL  ON  THE  SEER

21)    16^th September, 1972. 

Early morning dream:  I was standing alone on a place. Suddenly a serpent jumped on my back and sticking all alone my spinal cord gradually opened her fan on my head. Without any fear I stood still. And then the serpent moved away and jumped on the ground in front of me.

After this incident I went to Diamond and saw a number of devotees seated around him. I felt that I went to him after a long gap. One of the devotees was reading Gospel of Sri Ramkrishna and Diamond was giving explanations as he used to do in his lifetime.

Diamond was seated on his cot and I also sat on the floor in front of him. After a while Diamond started conversation with me.

Me –See, as I did my Ph. D. course, so I was deprived of your company and missed such a great phenomenon.

Diamond—No, No, my boy! It is good that you have got a footing.

Me—When I used to come to you long time back, I was a bit immatured. I could not under- stand you and your sayings.

Diamond—See, it matters little. You know that you were a teenager at that time and it is a natural habit for that age. Don’t worry for that.

Meanwhile I noticed that everybody was leaving the room one by one. Diamond came down from his cot and sat on the floor in front of me. He was looking very joyous. I thought that I had been chatting with him for such a long time, let me tell him that I was incapable of doing meditation. But I felt very uneasy to beg something from him as this was my natural habit in reality also.

Another thought came in my mind that he had expired 5 years ago, but looking so joyous and rejuvenated! Moreover I was having him in front of me, so why should I need meditation?

Then I told him, ‘so long I did not come to you, I should never do such mistake. The Puja holiday is knocking at the doo, I shall come to you at noon and stay full time’. He gave a sweet smile and said, ‘Yes you do that’. The dream was then off.

[The first scene indicated that kundalini, in the form of snake is awakened within the seer.

The second scene indicated that all the happenings happened in the real life of the seer are being wiped out by God-the-Preceptor from the seer’s mind through consolation.]

TEACHINGS  OF  GOD-THE-PRECEPTOR

AND  NARRATION  OF  PREVIOUS  DREAM  WITHIN  A  DREAM

22)   6^th December, 1972, Wednesday .  

Early morning dream :  I had gone to Howrah town (adjacent to Calcutta where Diamond used to reside) . But with a great surprise, I noticed that most of the old buildings had been demolished substituted by new ones. Everything was looking attractive with lakes, gardens, modern architectural buildings . I went on thinking that henceforth I should stay here permanently.

However, I also noticed that the lane where one of my friend Nisith (who took me to Diamond in reality) used to reside became widened and I was sitting in a Doctor’s Chamber just at the entrance of the lane (in reality it was so). Suddenly I saw that Diamond came and sat beside me. I began to read Gospel of Sri Ramkrishna so that he could hear it : I had also some conversations with him in between reading. Diamond looked very joyous and I felt very happy seeing him after a long gap . But I was feeling guilty for having a long gap of meeting him (which happened in reality). So I asked him, ‘well, since I left you, you must have  forgotten me’ !

Diamond—What are you saying! Why should I not remember you!

Me—You have never seen me within you in trance, then I am not your close associate!

Diamond—Oh, No! No! Who said this to you!

While saying these to me, he continued patting on my body. Meanwhile he went out to the corridor. I kept sitting holding the book in my hand. Suddenly I noticed that my elder brother was also seated  there  However, I thought that before Diamond’s departure, I should pay my salute on his feet . But at this moment suddenly I woke up and thought that the dream remained incomplete. Let me sleep again to see the last part of my dream and so I slept again and saw in the dream that Diamond again had come to me in the same place as before. This time he was standing on the corridor (as he did in the previous dream) and continued our conversations.

Me—You know that I had a dream. Diamond came forward and said, ‘Say , what you have dreamt’. I narrated the same dream seen in my first dream and asked, ‘well, is this dream signifying my reflection of mind’? With a smiling face he said, ‘I shall say something to you’. But he did not say anything and went away. The dream went off.

[Firstly, the dream was a corroboration of the serial number 811 of the Bengali book ‘Dharma-O-Anubhuti’ written by Diamond based on his personal reflections . (Vide dream no 5).

Secondly, this was the first experience in dream where I narrated the previous scene in the next one.]

WILL  RECEIVED  FROM  GOD-THE-PRECEPTOR

23)   9^th December, 1972.  Saturday.  Early morning dream:  I had gone to Diamond at Kadamtala, Howrah. He was then seated on his cot. I entered into the room and sat on the floor. There were many other devotees sitting on floor. Conversations were going on. Later on all except one went away. That person was unknown to me. Diamond came down from his cot and sat on the floor in front of me. Then he took a piece of paper and told me to sign on the paper. It seemed as if he wanted to make a will for the seer. However, I signed on the paper. But it seemed to be a bit wetly and soft. Diamond asked me, ‘can you take a good dictation’? I said, ‘Yes’. He then started giving dictation in English and I also started writing: with a hard pencil . I noticed that the unknown person was sitting, there as if he was the witness.

I said to Diamond, ‘How wonderful is your English’! But I noticed that due to softness of the paper, the writing seemed to be hazy. Diamond began to scold me for this. So I told him, ‘It is a hard pencil, that’s why it is hazy. Wait, let me bring a pen’. But suddenly I woke up and thought, ‘Oh! This is an incomplete dream, let me sleep again to see the last. So I again slept  and said to myself in the dream that I had already completed taking the dictation with a pen .

Scene changed. I was now seeing that God-the-Preceptor and I was living together in a house and I was taking advice from him though nothing could be remembered after dream.

At the last moment in the dream I observed that he was going to take a bath. After completing the bath he wore clothes putting off his towel. I asked him, ‘Have you taken bath’? He said, ‘Yes’, I told him,’ then I am now going to take my bath. And I went to take my bath. Here the dream went off.

[The dream is very significant as this indicates that in future many realizations of Diamond will be experienced by the seer. Will is given to son by father. It means that all the wealth of father will be enjoyed by his son .Here wealth means spiritual wealth.]

RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

The Master with Sri Keshab

At

Dakshineswar and other places.

Saturday, January 1, 1881

(Henceforth Shri Ramkrishna will be spoken of as Thakur” when required as it is so done in the Gospel )

539. “It is so, that a pearl oyster is in readiness for the rain coming down from the star ‘Swati’. It takes a drop of rain, dives deep in the fathomless ocean, stops there until the pearl grows”.

Pearl – is Atman.

Oyster – is the cerebrum.

 with Nirguna Brahma.

The drop of the rain in the form of God’s grace comes out in the proper time as Atman, and it is shown by God-the-Preceptor. The first and foremost thing is to obtain the grace of God and it comes spontaneously. A real aspirant sees such rainfall many a time in his life and it denotes that more and more grace is coming upon him.

Grace should be looked upon as spontaneous. It makes a man – Universalle-La’-Homme.

It becomes the true insignia of grace, as Universalism is the summum bonum.

540. “Whom God makes great, let him live in a forest but he shall be known to many”.

Yes, it is so. God is in every being and in man He manifests in a degree.

God in a man will appear in the form of the very same man whom He wants to be made known i.e. publicity. It is a wonder, in its connection, vide our ‘Preface’ and furthermore it signifies that the man has become God or attained Godhead.

541. “The flowers bloom in the dense forest and the bees search and find them out”.

The saying has got two aspects. One is ‘Individualism’ and the other is ‘Universalism’.

1) Individualism – Thakur is at Dakshineswar and the devotees flock there.

(a) Thakur is flower

(b) The devotees are bees.

2) Universalism –

(a) When a man attains Godhood, He becomes a bee.

(b) The devotees are flowers.

Flowers are seen to bloom by the aspirants in the seventh plane and in the seventh plane of the devotees this Universal Man or Paramatman or Parama Purusha or Paramahansa – in its true yogic sense, i.e. the shape of a person who will be seen within by thousands appears.

It is said in the Vedas that Brahma in order to taste His own sweetness has become many. The devotees are many and God is but One. So devotees are flowers and God is a bee.

Forest – is this human body and this simile is current from the days of yore.

JIBANKRISHNA OR DIAMOND THE HOLY GHOST AND MY DIARY OF DIVINE DREAMS

Chapter 6    

INDICATION OF PUBLICITY OF MY DREAMS IN FUTURE

14)  23^rd, June, 1972,  Friday .   Early morning dream:  My friend Nisith, younger sister Prakriti and younger brother Malay and I went out for a walk. While walking, I was narrating my dreams to Nisith and here the dream went off.

[The dream was revealed to me thus : Prakriti is the symbol of Nature , Malay denotes gentle breeze and Nisith means nirguna or dark which means infinite . My dreams will remain in dark and in due course of time these will spread like a gentle breeze in nature or in the world.

After 20 years my dreams are being published in Bengali magazine and after 38years being translated is published in different websites.]

ACCOMPANY WITH GOD-THE-PRECEPTOR

          

15)   24^th  June , 1972 ,  Saturday ,  Early morning dream :  I had gone to Diamond and saw someone reading Gospel of Sri Ramkrishna . In between reading conversation was also going on. Devotees were coming and going . One known lady was also seen in the crowd. She was seated along with others on open corridor outside the room.

As soon as I saw the lady, it appeared in my mind that when woman folks began to come, Diamond might not be alive more.

However, Diamond seemed to be very bright. After a while when I bowed down to him with great devotion he patted my head and body with great affection and here the dream went off.

[In this dream the seer was being blessed by God-the- Preceptor and afterwards a great peace persisted in his mind.]

GOD-THE-PRECEPTOR PUTS HIS QUALITIES ON THE SEER

                                  

16) July 15, 1972.  One early morning when I was just waking up with half consciousness , I felt that someone was lying on my body longitudinally putting his whole body weight on me, I got a bit chilled as it was so vivid, but did not move . When ultimately I got back my full consciousness, I was surprised and thought, Ah! It was Diamond himself who was lying on me and for nothing I got nervous!

[This was a very significant dream indicating my future when many of the qualities of God-the-Preceptor will penetrate me in future.]

THE DOOR TO 7^TH PLANE IS OPENED

                           

17)   July 17, 1972.   While traveling in a bus I experienced a realization in a trance --- a one storied building with a gate on the right side for entry to the house. There I saw a woman standing at the gate with her two hands kept on the gate as if she was the keeper of the door. She had long hair, complexion not so fair with very large eyes.

I was thinking that she might be a Tantrik. Suddenly I saw with my surprise that she allowed me to enter the house. As soon as I entered into a room, I noticed, a 7—8 years girl with long heirs up to her feet was leaving that room . Then my trance went off.

[The trance signifies thus: Unless the Holy Mother or this body allows , One cannot enter the 7^th plane to see God or ‘ Atman’. There is a possibility that in future the seer may visualize ‘ Atman’ or ‘Self’ .

INDICATION OF RAJYOGA

18)  July 20,  1972.   

At noon one day I had a dream. Swami Vivekananda was seated on a cot, His head was clean shaved. I was also seated in front of him  though, without conversation. Meanwhile the dream went off.

[Here Swami  Vivekananda means Rajyoga . The dream indicates that the seer will have Rajyoga within him in future.]

(Note- It came true.)

VISUALIZATION OF ATMAN OR GREAT SOUL

19)   27^th August, 1972. Sunday.  

Early morning dream --- I was in a room seated on the floor for meditation. A wooden platform of small size was kept in front of me .I fell in meditation for a while within the dream. The meditation suddenly went off and I saw a small lump of divine light in the shape of a curved thumb gradually moving upward from the platform and fixed in air in front of my eyes. Then the scene vanished.

In the next scene I saw myself inside a room adjacent to the previous room seen in the first scene. It was packed with quite a number of people. One unknown person among them told me ‘You have seen your father’s Atman’. Here the dream went off.

[The divine light in the shape of curved thumb has been mentioned in Upanishads as Atman or Soul, which was visualized by the seer. Father’s Atman means the Atman seen by the primordial man on earth some thousands and thousands of years ago. Vedic Rishis used to visualize God in their dreams in the form of their father and so they always used the term ‘Father’. Here unknown person denotes God who is always unknown except His grace. Plat- form symbolizes the cerebrum where God is seen.

This dream is the confirmation of the previous dream seen on July-August, 1972 (dream no 17). The visualization of the Soul or Atman or God in the form of light is described in Maitri Upanishad ( 6.38) like this-

“Of size of thumb or span within the body,

A light of twofold or threefold brightness,

This Brahma who is being praised,

The Great God – He has entered in all beings”!]

RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

The Master with Sri Keshab

At

Dakshineswar and other places.

Saturday, January 1, 1881

(Henceforth Shri Ramkrishna will be spoken of as Thakur” when required as it is so done in the Gospel )

537. “Why so? Can’t you sleep without the smell of the fish-basket? Once, at night, a fish-wife became a guest at the house of a gardener. She was lodged to sleep in the room where flowers were stored and she could not lull herself to sleep. She commenced fidgeting. The flower-maid marked it and asked, ‘Hello! What’s up? What keeps you awake’? The fish-wife replied, ‘Well mummy, this smell of the flowers hinders the sleep. Can’t you get me my fish-basket’? Then a little water was sprinkled on the fish-basket, it gave off smell of fish and she fell fast asleep”.

Fish-basket – The lower zone of the three planes: –

a) Organ of evacuation,

b) Organ of generation,

c) and the navel.

It is the head-quarter of Tama-Guna which denotes dullness and inertia. One of the foremost insignia of Tamas is heavy sleep.

Fish-wife – is Avidyamaya or the Maya of ignorance. In some cases she assumes form and is seen by the aspirants.

Guest – Ego or ‘I’.

House – temple or church or mosque or synagogue – the human body.

Gardener – God in the body. Sri Krishna is called the gardener of the forest, Vanamali, and Vana is forest, i.e. body. It is so compared as ‘I’ in the body has lost his way in the forest. It is only the Gardener’s grace which can set a man aright and lead one in the right path.

Room where flowers were stored – It is the seventh plane or the cerebrum and here only divinity reigns Supreme – Sattva-Guna.

Flowers – Cells in the brain – they are so seen by the aspirants. Flowers of various kinds are seen and it expresses divinity occupying the cells in place of the animality. Lotus is the best insignia and then comes rose.

Could not lull herself to sleep – When one reaches the seventh plane Sattva Guna prevails and he loses sleep.

Flower-maid – Vidyamaya – the Maya of knowledge.

Water – (here in the metaphor) indicates Pranamaya Kosha where Life Power at the outset is seen like bluish gurgling water. The test is that one comes down to the lower zone where Tama-Guna pervades and the outcome is sound sleep.

Of course there is another rough sense that runs in the under-current of the metaphor. Sri Keshab has got his wife and he will get a sleep in the company of his wife.

Saturday, December 10, 1881.

538. “Now you see, it is due to her undivided devotion to her man-the-preceptor she saw Narayana (God with form and with four hands – a creation of imagination) and she showed Narayana to the Guru (Preceptor)”.

It is not the seeing of God.

It is a realization of the sixth plane.

Even in the case, God took pity to her earnest yearning, gave His grace and the realization of the sixth plane came upon her and she in her turn, gave her grace to the preceptor and he also saw Narayana.

The episode of the widow with the pot of endless curd and her guru bears a different character.

Thakur’s version runs thus: it is Guru, God-the-Preceptor, who shows the disciple his (disciple’s) Ishta – or an imaginary form of God and merges into the form. No guru or man-the-preceptor can do it.

Here it reveals that of one makes a man-guru then it turns out that the disciple may see Ishta – God-with-Form (if God takes pity and gives His grace) and if he (disciple) gives his grace to the preceptor then the guru may see the Ishta. In other words, the disciple becomes guru and man-the-preceptor takes the place of the disciple. Rather, it is a warning to the ‘gurus’ that being a man if you play the role of a guru, then your fate is sealed; nay, you are doomed.

There is no man to play the role of a Guru in the Universalism as it is ‘One and Oneness’. Very simple and plain is the method. A man becomes Brahma through spontaneity; numberless people will see Him within and become ‘One’ with ‘Him’ in the Atmic (spiritual) sphere and the ‘seeing of Him’ also comes automatically. A mango tree is grown. Not only the owner enjoys the mangoes but thousand others enjoy the mangoes.