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The Vedic Truth and Sri Ramkrishna Deva as a Hindu

13. Sri Ramkrishna often quoted this metaphor: “A salt doll went out to measure the depth of an ocean but as he plunged into the water of the ocean he melted away in it”.

A salt doll is an aspirant in the seventh plane. Ocean is “Mahakarana” or “The First Cause” or “The Absolute”.

The plain meaning is that the mind of an aspirant in the end merges in the “Absolute” or “Mahakarana” and never returns. This is in accordance with the rules outlined in the treatise of the Tantras. This is nothing but the running idea of “Liberation” or “Mukti” after death. It is the highest sophistry to befool the humanity, as no reporter has yet come back to the mankind with the news of liberation of anybody after death and not even of Sri Ramkrishna or Buddha, etc. It is simply and solely childish and a matter of deep regret that a man should be so treated by another man whose false vanity of “Avatarism” allows him to pose as the teacher of mankind and to give out a version without adducing any proof to it or having been personally acquainted with it after due experience of the thing. If a salt doll merges in the ocean, then while Sri Ramkrishna gauged the ocean how it was possible for him to come back and to give this pleasing and happy news to the humanity. Oh, he is an “Avatar” and he alone comes back for teaching the humanity. Yes, the flag of Avatarism is flourished and an easy escape is made.

I am sorry to say that there is no “Avatar” in the Vedic Principle. As for liberation there are four kinds of liberation running current in India.

(ii) They are: –

(1) To get liberation after death. It is depicted above. Almost all the great teachers of India from Buddha down to Sri Ramkrishna advocated it. Nay, Sri Ramkrishna went a bit far, and endorsed as long as a man lives he cannot get liberation. He used to explain it through a metaphor. Yes, just think of an earthen pot (Ghata) kept beneath the water of an ocean. The pot is filled with water – water beneath it and water above it and water within it and water all around it and ‘water, water everywhere’ but still the pot has got a separate existence – the pot exists. But when the pot is broken there is water only. It is really a matter of deep regret as liberation has got an absolutely different characteristic. Liberation is realistic and factual and it is announced by the humanity after seeing the liberated one within their own bodies and thus making the man seen within – Universalle La’ Homme. This is the Vedic liberation and it means not liberation of a single individual but it means and establishes liberation en masse. A bit further, it is not obtained by self-exertion but is distributed and the distribution has its own characteristic as it functions through the five elements – Earth (in the shape of a book); Water or hydrogen – When the Sun and the “Man in the Sun” is seen in one’s own cerebrum; Teja – by physically seeing the man when coming in contact with him; Air – by hearing his name and his instructions – and through Sky or Ether.

(2) To be liberated step by step – As the aspirant is proceeding towards the seventh plane and in each and every plane or each Kosha, various experiences occur and the aspirant comes to know about the piece-meal liberation of Atma from the body. But with all its “Yes”, one only beguiles oneself with it and has self-satisfaction which remains confined in the aspirant only. No, it is no liberation at all but a poor consolation to a diseased mind. Liberation means, in the word of the Royal Bengal Tiger, Swami Vivekananda – “You must liberate the whole universe before you leave this body” – though the great Swami could not bring it into existence in his lifetime. Let us go a bit back in the past, some two thousand years ago, Nagarjuna the originator of the Great Vehicle or Mahayana system of Buddhism created an imaginary “Avalokiteshwara Bodhisattva”, who announced that he would not take his (Avalokiteshwara Bodhisattva) own liberation till each and every member of the humanity is liberated. It is far distant glow and murmur of the Vedic Truth – “Twam jato bhavasi vishwatomukhah” – Thou art but all. We are the most fortunate and the blessed people to find a de facto and alive picture of the thing itself in our everyday life.

(3) Spontaneous revelation and immediate liberation. It has been mentioned in the Kashmiri Shaivism. The full text of it was not available even some eleven hundred years ago when Kashmiri Shaivism was written save and except that the name was mentioned only. It transpires that when the unknown man comes down from the Brahmapura and appears before the aspirant in the casual body, it is immediate liberation as favoured by spontaneous revelation. But it is liberation in embryo.

(4) The Vedic liberation announces the liberation of the whole humanity or there is no liberation and it is called “Jivanmukti” – “Freed in life” and to add to it, this is “Kamachara” state as spoken of by the Vedas.

Now it is transparent that Sri Ramkrishna’s ‘liberation’ tells a different story and it should be reckoned as nothing but a kind of self-illusion which is confined in an individual.