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

The yogic form of a Kirtan of Uddhavadasa

609. “First I heard His magic flute from the Kadamba grove”.

First I heard – yes, when Kundalini awakens with a musical sound, firstly of the first the sweet sound of a stringed-instrument or the slow and soft sound of a flute coming afloating on air is heard.

Magic flute a unique sound such as never heard before.
Kadamba grove – human body.

610. “And the next day the Minstrel told me of Him and thrilled my soul”.

Minstrel – it is ‘Bhat’ – matchmaker.

God-the-Preceptor makes one acquainted with God. So sometimes He is called matchmaker.

“Guru is like a comrade”. – Sri Ramkrishna

In an orthodox marriage ceremony in India first comes the matchmaker. So God-the-Preceptor first appears within to take the bride – Radha – or any and every aspirant to God – the bridegroom. Not unlike the matchmaker, God-the-Preceptor is an indispensible requirement in the marriage ceremony with God, for an aspirant. It is a fine metaphor and its application is common.

Told me of Him – showed me God. It takes place in the seventh plane.

Thrilled my soul – filled me with a bliss and there is no proper vocabulary which can express it. Its aroma is remembered and cherished at every moment of life.

611. “Another day, O friend of my heart, you chanted His blessed name”.

O friend of my heart – it is but my own self who spoke. This is aerial voice but coming from within. It bespeaks that the aspirant hears voice – sound – Nad. Yes, it is an awe-striking bliss. Sometimes causal body also speaks.

612. “The wise men too described to me His virtues without number”.

I got my realizations tallied with the realizations of the wise men.

613. “I am a weak and simple girl, and stern, alas! are my elders”.

The reading should be:

“By nature a non-speaker, besides, a Zenana of the harem; furthermore, there are torturing elders in the house”.
Non-speaker – the subtle realizations; manifestations, sensations and feelings take place within and they cannot be properly or thoroughly expressed or ventilated. To add to it, in Samadhi Life Power leaves the tongue and it loses its power of speech.

A Zenana of the harem – yes, on both ways it is so – physically as well as inwardly. Physically, she is a wife and must be keeping herself in the harem and inwardly, the causal body is confined and encased in the gross body.
The torturing elders – the evil passions such as lust, anger etc. are indeed the most turbulent enemies in the way to God. Yes, they are elders too, as they appear first within the body.

House – the body as well as the dwelling house of Radha as depicted and drawn in the mythology.

614. “My love for my beloved grows; how can I live any longer”?

The reading should be:

“My charming citizen and to him my love is on a galloping increase. I apprehend that my body cannot sustain my life any longer”.

Citizen – City is the cerebrum. It is the city of the body. God is in the seventh plane, so He is the citizen.

(The term ‘Nagar’ in Bengali means the man who lives in town. But in slang it means a lover as Sri Krishna was to Radha and here in slang the term Nagar expresses its inward sense – God, the citizen in cerebrum – the town in the human body).

Love is on a galloping increase – The ego or ‘I’-ness is rapidly changing into God through these yogic realizations.
Body cannot sustain my life – The animal life is not to remain and in its place the divine life will appear.