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

621. “Bharadwaja and other sages declare you as a Divine Incarnation”.

A Divine Incarnation is an Individualism. One who gets the manikin form of God within, is called Avatar or incarnation of God. Did Bharadwaja and other sages get the process and the manikin form within them? No, not at all. An Avatar has to declare himself as an Avatar and the rest of the humanity has got to believe it. Bharadwaja and other sages were followers of faith of the Dravidian or Semitic cult. Religion is not a cult of faith but it is an automatic cult of realization. Furthermore, there are two kinds of realization:

(i) Individual, and (ii) Universal. Individual realization does not bear any proof as it is confined in a single man; whereas in Universalism, the proof is borne by the human race.

622. “Our meditation rests on Indivisible Satchidananda”.

What is Satchidananda?

Sat – existence. We feel the Life Power pervades the body through and through. It is ‘Sat’, but it is gross.

Chit – yoga – transformation of Life Power.

Ananda – Bliss. When Life Power reaches the cerebrum it becomes Bliss and Bliss alone. It is felt and the sign of Bliss is seen over the face. The two cheeks look swelled. It is Samadhi and according to the definition of Sankaracharya it is called Nirvikalpa Samadhi. The pundits or scholars having had no practical experience or realization of the thing take Nirvikalpa Samadhi, Jara Samadhi and even Sthitha Samadhi as one and make its use indiscriminately.

This Satchidananda is but one portion of the whole. And it is nothing but Individualism. The other portion is Chit Ghana Kaya.

Chit – yoga – transformation of Life Power.

Ghana – The Bliss in the seventh plane again undergoes transformation, gets condensed.

Kaya – human form, the shape of a living person. Here the Life Power becomes Paramatman and He will be seen by thousands declaring Universalism. This is realization and not faith.

The two terms taking together become: Satchidananda Chidghanakaya.

623. “The mind would lose its existence”.

(The translation in the Gospel is – “My mind would lose itself in the Indivisible Absolute”).

Here the idea runs that the Individual Absolute rests somewhere else and one’s mind gets up, merges, and collapses there. But I speak of my own personal experience. In deep Samadhi I lost myself and I did not know when I lost myself but when I came back in my sense I came to understand that I was not. My mind was transformed into void or nullity. It is called to come back with the knowledge of ‘Thou’ or Tattvajnan.

There is also a second class realization of this state. It takes place in the causal body. A man dreams a human form without head, that is, this Samadhi is taking place in his causal body. The realization is taking place in the body of his Guru or the body of God-the-Preceptor who is nothing but God Himself.

624. “So he (a man coming down from Samadhi) rests with devotees and devotion to God”.

It is but to come down. Here it signifies that the Life Power retracts and fails to make itself Universal.

Swami Vivekananda was asked by Thakur to go beyond Samadhi and furthermore, it was added that everything was but He.

Yes, this Dravidian cult or the cult of Bhakti ends in Individualism but the Sanatan Dharma or the spontaneous evolution of the awakened Life Power envelops the whole human race announcing the Universalism. It is so done through Mahayoga – the most mysterious and unfathomable mystery of the human life – an epitome of the Universe or nature.