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

625. “Otherwise, is there any other focus for his mind”?

Here also the same tune of Individualism is going on. As if, he (the man who attained Samadhi) is only for the devotees and not for the world abroad.

626. “The ‘ego of knowledge’ was retained by them (Sri Sankar and Sri Ramanuja)”.

In one of his letters to the court-pundit of the Maharaja of Mysore, Swami Vivekananda pointed out that both Sri Sankar and Sri Ramanuja were but pundits (erudite scholars). Scholarship is not religion.

Religion is to attain Godhood – Brahma and its only proof lies in the Universalism; otherwise that which remains confined in an individual life should not be reckoned as it is not accepted in the Vedas, as the Vedic truth is corroborated through experience by the general people.

627. “In Samadhi, the Oneness with God follows”.

It is spoken here with dualistic idea. God is in a separate zone in the seventh plane and an aspirant’s Life Power reaches the zone and merges into God. It is wrong in toto and a piece of fine imagery for explaining the thing. This is Individualism and it does not bear any proof.

Yes, the Life Power is transformed into God. He must be a living man. He must be seen by thousands within and it will be so announced by them about their spiritual Oneness with Him. Then and then alone it bears the proof that not only the Life Power of a man is transformed into God but a Man becomes God.

628. “Egoism evaporates in a man of knowledge”.

Yes, a Hindu sees ‘Diamond’, a Moslem does so and it is so with a Parsee, a Jew, a Buddhist, a Christian, a Vaisnava, a Sakta etc. Now what is ‘Diamond’? It transpires that He is for all.

So many thousands of men within them saw ‘Diamond’ bearing different names, belonging to different countries and different nationalities, and now to what name, what country and to what nationality, this ‘Diamond’ belongs to! It transpires He belongs to each country, each nationality and each individual. It is Godhood or Universal Self or Paramatman. This is knowledge as it solves the problem of self and the others.
It is meant for the whole mankind.

“He only lives who lives in all”.

– Swami Vivekananda

The above saying is not a hypothesis or a mental calculation or exalted and lofty poetic idea but it is factualism and realism. It takes place, is seen and proves its own veracity.

629. “The God of Jnani is brilliant light and the God of the Bhakta is a form made of sweetness and love”.

It is but a partial knowledge of the Self on its march to the Universalism. But again it so appears in an individual and it may be called no knowledge.

A Jnani will take a cudgel and a Bhakta will also take a cudgel and both of them will fight together for their superiority. It was so done in the past and it is still done in the present. Their experiences are no experiences as they do not solve the life-problems of the human race. This Oneness and Oneness alone solves the problems and it has come to us in a mysterious way; yea, it is a gift of God!

In the annals of religion of the human race it is never heard, appeared and seen with such a concrete and alive form anywhere or in any part of the globe, save and except it is spoken in the Vedas, but there also it lacks a living and concrete example.