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

583. “Ravana said, ‘When Rama is seen within me, the most beautiful celestial women like Rambha and Tilottama (the most beautiful women in the mythology – of course celestial bodies) appear like ashes of the funeral pyre”.

Yes, Rama means One.

When one gets this Oneness within and this Oneness is corroborated by the members of the human race, then no other desire arises – the mind is filled with the ambrosia of Oneness – any and every kind of desire (Kama) disappears, not to speak of any distinction.

584. “To one who has seen the beauty of God (to see God means to become God), the berth of Brahma seems to be insignificant”.

Berth of Brahma – means the ruler of this Universe like Yehovah of the Jews or Jupiter of the Greeks.

The beauty of God is to be seen in the seventh plane as shown by God-the-Preceptor and then one becomes Self-alone (Advaitam) in the shape of his own identity and it is to be seen and heard from others. The thing must be taking place during the lifetime of the seer of God and then all else will appear ephemeral.

585. “Living in the midst of ‘Women and Gold’, it is absurd for a man to realize God”.

Really, no such binding exists. Because, “If God out of sheer grace frees Himself from the body of a man, then and then alone, God is seen”.

– Sri Ramkrishna

It is so in Individualism as well as in Universalism. ‘Diamond’ is seen by thousands without being heard or seen. Afterwards somehow or other, they come, see and corroborate. It is their consciousness or Life Power which assumes the form of ‘Diamond’ and they see Him.

586. “If anything is to be begged, then it must be begged of God”.

It is in the parable of ‘Akbar’, the Mogul emperor and Fakir (Hermit).

It is dualism and illusory. A real hermit will never want, no desire of entertaining his visitors will crop up in his mind and he will never come to Akbar to disturb him. Any desire in heart and he is far away from attaining Godhood.