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 )

555. “Sometimes Keshab used to declare you as John the Baptist”.

This declaration of Sri Keshab does not convey the sense that Thakur was John the Baptist and Sri Keshab was Jesus Christ. It has got a deeper sense. It is not yet established but its advent is observed. This is Universalism and Oneness in the spiritual world and Thakur paved the way for its manifestation.

556. “Rama is only One but He has got thousand names”.

Rama – (Lit:) means One.

This saying is coming down from generations to generations but no proof of it has yet been set up.

In individual realization there is no proof of it. You have got to believe the speaker. But to believe is no religion. Religion is based on the Universal Truth. It is meant for one and all. Universal Truth bears its own proof. ‘Diamond’ is seen within them by thousands and thousands and it is a positive proof that in the spiritual world the human race is identical with ‘Diamond’. They see, they announce and they evince. Such is the wonderful force of religion. Yes, ‘Diamond’ is One in the spiritual world but He has got millions of different names and forms in the outside world.

557. “All the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras – all scriptures, they seek Him and no one else, only that One Sat-Chit-Ananda”.

Him – Who is this Him?

There is no other ‘Him’ anywhere else, save and except, a Man becomes God and it is proved and acknowledged.

Sat-Chit-Ananda – is a state of individual Bliss. It is not a mental calculation. This Bliss comes over a man in Samadhi. His two cheeks will be seen swelled and his face will have a reddish glow with ecstasy.

There is an Universal Satchidananda in the form of a living human being and He unites all into One in the spiritual world. Nobody will call Him – “Jala, Water, Aqua or Pani” – in different appellations. On the contrary, the Buddhist sees Him within and calls Him ‘Diamond’. The Jew sees Him within and calls Him ‘Diamond’. The Moslem calls Him ‘Diamond’. It is but ‘Diamond’ and One and no other appellation. So we find here a mark of departure from “The Universal Catholic Church of Sri Ramkrishna”.

A gulf of difference lies between “Jala, Water, Aqua, Pani” and ‘Diamond’. Here the latter is pointed out in the Vedas and it is ‘Reality’; whereas, the former is symbolic and based with the view of toleration though no toleration is yet come in all the ‘Isms’ i.e. the sectarian religions of the world.

558. “You see all the women but they are only She – the Divine Mother”.

It is but Individualism – self-created fancy– sectarianism. There is neither ‘he’ nor ‘she’, nor Sankhya, nor Vedanta; but there is Reality – the real life of a human being.

Thousands and thousands of women see within them Diamond in their own places without physically coming in contact with Him. Yes, it signifies, outwardly they are women but spiritually they are One with Him. The operation is carried on in the Mahayoga having its origin in the Mahakarana – the cause of which cannot be known but its effect reveals the Truth.

In individualism one man sees and in the case of Diamond, He does not see but thousand others see.