RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

A day at Dakshineswar

Saturday, April 5, 1884

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

542. “But manifestation of God in a man takes place in a greater degree”.

There is no other receptacle for God to get Himself manifested save and except the human body.

The idea of one section of Vedanta is that God permeates the Universe through and through. It is but a very happy imagination as no proof of it has ever been put forward.

Thakur’s realization in the temple of Kali, the goddess of Dakshineswar, that the whole inside of the temple containing any and every article was besmeared with God’s Light (Chaitanya or Consciousness) was explained by Himself when He declared that a jaundice-eyed man sees everything yellow.

The thing happens in the fourth plane. Your eyes are covered with yellow color which is but a reflection of the light newly manifested in the fourth plane. So with those eyes on whichever side you may turn, you shall be seeing yellow. This is a misconception or wrong way of explaining that God permeates the Universe through and through.

Yes, a man spontaneously gets himself transformed into Atman, God, or Brahma.

In a man when God incarnates as an Avatar, He is confined within the very same body. It is individualism and it does not bear any proof. It is Semitic or Dravidian cult. It is but a half measure.

When God manifests Himself as Brahma, it bears proof. It is Aryan cult and its proof will be realized by thousands and thousands of members of the human race as He will be seen by them within their own bodies.

It is but the evolution of the Life Power. The capacity of the Life Power cannot be gauged. Hence it is called Nirguna Brahma.

543. “Being entrapped in the snare of the five elements, even Brahma Himself weeps”.

Every man is Brahma in embryo. Every man wants to be liberated. His body allures and entices him to remain confined in the body. He forgets his own proper Self or Godhood.

544. “Don’t be forgetting that Rama had to weep for being stricken with grief at the bereavement of Sita”.

Sita – is the causal body. In the upward progress of the Life Power the causal body in the form of a god or goddess vanishes. But the aspirant for his devotion to his Ishta does not want to part with it.

It was so with Sri Radha – the heroine of the Bhagavat.

It was so with Sri Chaitanya.

It was so with Sri Thakur in the cottage at Panchavati when He was instructed by Totapuri Maharaj for Nirvikalpa Samadhi.