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 )

550. “Narayana in the guise of the sadhu.

Narayana in the guise of the cheat.

Narayana in the guise of the Jealous.

Narayana in the guise of the lecher”.

How does Narayana look?

No reply to this extent has been given by anybody. From time immemorial it is the conviction that the one and same Atman is in the heart of everybody but no proof has been set up for it. It becomes hypothesis. It is declared by Swami Vivekananda. “All religions of the world are hypothesis”. The long and short story of the theme is that one realizes and the rest of the human race has got to believe him. The individual realization is no realization. An Universal realization is religion as it is meant for the whole human race. Yes, a Man becomes Narayana. When He becomes Narayana He will be Universally seen in the shape of His own person.

What about the individual realization of this Nara-narayana?

Yes, there is a realization. When a man becomes Narayana by his own internal realizations he dreams that on the palm of his hand he has got Salagram Sila, a symbol of Narayana worshipped in India. But this is Individualism and it is but a seed and ultimately the seed becomes a tree and the tree bears fruit and the fruit is tasted by the whole human race. They come to know by seeing Him within that they are also Narayana in different forms and names. So everybody is Narayana. There is no bar for becoming Narayana.

551. “She alone knows why she assumes the two aspects – terrible and compassionate in her at the same time”.

It is spoken of the human body. The image of Kali represents this human body. A man in his own body has got these two aspects – one is animal and the other is divine. Lesser the animality, greater the divinity – but this divinity in a man comes out automatically annihilating the animality, or in other words, this human body is such a wonderful machine of the Mother Shyama that it converts all the evils into Universal goodness, that is the Universal Self – the form of a living man – the attainer of Sukram (Purest of the Pure) in the Vedic term.

552. “Had Keshab Babu been a genuine one, then his disciples would have in a better plight”.

“Like father, like son”, they say.

The yogi gets the spiritual self, in the shape of his own image, transferred and established within the body of his disciple and takes his charge. He is seen to accompany him everywhere. He talks, guides and instructs him. In the spiritual world the disciple is thus uplifted.

But here in Keshab Babu it was not so found.