RELIGION AND REALIZATIN 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 )

546. “Not this, not this – process enables one to get Atman collected and accumulated in the seventh plane. When one, in the process of ‘Not this, not this’ gets Samadhi in the seventh plane then Atman is accumulated”.

Realization succeeds realization from the first plane to the entrance of the seventh plane. The aspirant is but a seer and the realizations follow from one plane to another as the awakened Kundalini marches on to her destination in the cerebrum. Here in the seventh plane Kundalini is transformed into Atman – the essence of Kundalini. Thakur very adroitly pointed it out in the metaphor where the snake held a chase and the frog tried to escape near the vicinity of the skull with rain water of the Swati star. The frog jumped over the skull. The raised hood of the snake spat the venom in the skull. As venom bespeaks the essence of the snake so Atman is the essence of the human body. But each and every iota of the transformation of Life Power comes spontaneously. ‘Not this, not this’ – indicates motion in upward move as the seer never utters this and the visualization of Atman does not take place within a day or a week or a month or a year but it takes twelve long long years and four months after the appearance of God-the-Preceptor in the body and furthermore there are other bindings and conditions.

A man gets real Samadhi in the seventh plane when God-the-Preceptor shows the Atman to the aspirant and the consciousness (pure one) of the seer remains within the Atman from where he sees and hears. He sees God-the-Preceptor to merge in the Atman. Yes, there is Samadhi in the sixth plane, known as Unmana Samadhi. The scattered mind is collected and placed in the sixth plane and Ishta or god or goddess with forms are seen and even in some cases God-the-Preceptor shows it to the aspirant.

547. “After seeing God and being acquainted with His attributes and characteristics as if He is the dearest self of mine, one is called Vijnani”.

This is the realizations of Atman or Self as termed ‘the realizations of the Vedanta’ or ‘Videha Sadhan’ as the realizations come after the aspirant has got the knowledge that the he is not body but he is Atman. It has five aspects and it is already stated.

548. “The pure mind acquires an attitude of Self-hood”.

A man’s mind becomes Pure after seeing Atman.

Attitude – Bhava – his own thought has taken the shape; it is not fact or reality. It is an illusory state, a far distant echo of the Reality to come after a long time.

Self-hood – I am all.

Here it is spoken of Bhava, the real thing comes in a different way. Pure means perfect. The force of this perfectness is a miracle. The people will see the Perfect Man within their own bodies and they shall declare it and that tantamount to the declaration that we are one with Him.

The knowledge of ‘Self-hood’ has got two aspects; the humanity shall be seeing the attainer of Brahma and the attainer shall be seeing the mankind in Him i.e. “One is All and All is One”.