RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

A day at Dakshineswar

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

March 1, 1885

578. “When has worldly man leisure to think of God”?

Yes, you must have sufficient leisure to think of God and have sufficient time and leisure to give un-diverted attention to God; you must renounce the world and adopt the life of a monk or a roving mendicant. Such is the instruction and injunction chalked out in Vividisha for those people who want to have God by self-exertion. But even they cannot attain God, nay, impossible to alter the natural law as experienced and laid down by the sages of the past; if it is to come, it comes spontaneously.
All-knowing and all-merciful God is within you. He knows and understands your ins and outs more than you do. Yes, He is fully aware that you have not got any leisure – it is also His creation. So He has created the Swapna Siddha for you. Every man has leisure while he is asleep and in that sleep he reveals himself. So no life of monk or any other life is required. It is a false conception which goads a man to go this way or that way for attainment of God because it is individual spirit or egoism which makes him so. Whereas sleep is an universal state of the human race and to attain God in sleep is also an universal thing for any and everybody. No spiritual life of a monk is required at all, because a monk’s life is an individual life denoting special aristocracy. It is also so announced by Thakur through Suresh Babu (Surendra Nath Mitra of Simla) while he spoke before Thakur, “Let us sleep now and when we shall get up in the morning we shall find that we have become Babu”.

Babu – means God.

579. “I want such a scholar of the Bhagavat who has sufficient time and leisure at his disposal to read the Bhagavat to me”.

Bhagavat is not a book to be read. The real Bhagavat is the realizations and the manifestations of God which an aspirant experiences within. God-the-Preceptor appears within and teaches him from the first plane to the seventh plane and till a man becomes God and appears within the human race – the reading of the Bhagavat is going on.

So it is said, Bhakta, Bhagavat and Bhagawan – the trio is but one; i.e. a devotee, the holy book and God – they are but One.

Religion is not a book but it is realization and manifestation of God within; nay a bit further, a man becomes God – “Thou art That”, and it is acknowledged by the human race!

580. “While the Pundit left the world, he sent a messenger to the King with the message – Yes, O King! Now I have understood”.

The best interpretation of the parable is that the Bhagavat is not to be read or to be heard but to be realized and established within. Even in that case it cannot stand. It becomes a set-up Siva and not a Siva coming out piercing the womb of the earth (body).

The parable is fabricated in the light of Vividisha. A man carries God with him and within him. If God (of course, not in form – to see God with form is to see Ishta – in the sixth plane), the specified realization of God where knowledge of God is given by God-the-Preceptor (‘Jnana Murtim’ – the form of Knowledge), is to be seen then He is seen within you and nowhere else. You carry God with you and within you! A man is not required to go away anywhere else for God. God is for one and all and it is in ordinary course of life and no extraordinary course is to be adopted. ‘Extraordinary’ means Individualism and ‘ordinary’ means Universalism.