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 )

Friday, April 24, 1885

593. “Restless, breathing hard, she looks towards the Kadamba grove”.

Restless – the awakened Life Power makes her slowly swing and sometimes makes her dance in a sitting position like a frog.

Breathing hard – sign of yearning for God. The mind is at the middle of the fourth plane and the fifth plane in the heart. This hard breathing is the insignia.

Kadamba grove – this human body –

(i) Sri Krishna – God in the body.

(ii) Tree – man, the best receptacle.

The Vaishnavas have compared their body with Kadamba tree as it is described in the Bhagavat and in other mythologies that Sri Krishna (the imaginary God with form) was fond of playing beneath the Kadamba tree and it was his favorite tree. So Radha looks towards the Kadamba grove as if Sri Krishna is hidden there.
“A man is the best receptacle where God manifests in the highest degree”.

– Sri Ramkrishna

Looks towards the Kadamba grove – her visions have turned towards the inside body in search of Krishna. A Yogi’s vision is confined in his body. God is to be seen nowhere, save and except, in the human body. The awakened Life Power in the Yogi turns the vision within and realizations of the manifestations of God take place. To see Sri Krishna is not the seeing of God. But it is seeing of Ishta – the imaginary form of Life Power after one’s own liking. It is not the seeing of God as specified by Sri Ramkrishna. The actual seeing of God will give its own publicity. If the seeing of God is in its full measure then He becomes God. To see God is to become God. This seer of God will be seen by thousands within them and in some cases He asserts Himself and declares, “Look here: I am God”. It is carried out in Mahayoga, having its origin from Mahakarana which cannot be fathomed. Here effect becomes the tangible cause. The whole system is an automatic, expressive manifestation of the Life Power. It has its birth in a single individual and in its full course, it unites all into One in the spiritual world.
Radha or any aspirant will get all the above signs of Yoga on the body and they will be marked by others.

594. “Is she afraid of the elders? Has she been possessed by a ghost”?

The proper reading should be:

“How is that? She is not afraid of the wicked elders. Has she got within any Devata (Divine power awakened in her)”?
The wicked elders – yes, passions of the human body are first to appear in the body. They have got a priority claim over the body and they are all wicked as they are the obstructions on the way of the attainment of God. Like parents and other superiors who have come first and I have come afterwards so the passions have come first and they are compared with the elders.

Has she got any Devata in her – yes, her Life Power is awakened in her by the grace of God, so she sets at naught all the evil passions.