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The Vedic Truth and Shree Ramkrishna Deva as a Hindu

23. Sri Ramkrishna says: – “He shall make you know who is He and what is your real self”.

Yes, it is the Vedic Truth but Sri Ramkrishna puts this riddle before a man and leaves him to grope in darkness. Of what he means by this vagueness, nothing can be understood.

‘He’ – who is this He?

Of course, a man should say, why, it is obvious, ‘He’ is God.

How does God look?

Here no answer can be given as ultimately it will lead to ‘as many men as many Gods’ because God is an imaginary data here.

The Vedic version is very simple and plain. A man becomes God. He shall appear within you and you shall visualize Him; and He thus creates Oneness which makes you know that the man seen within, and the seers, are but one in the Atmic world and thus you come to know your Real Self or ‘Tat Twamasi’ – ‘Thou art Brahma’.

24. “Those who are liberally disposed, acknowledged and accept every kind of image such as Rama, Krishna, Shiva, Kali”.

Here the term ‘Liberal’ has been used in the esoteric (yogic) sense. One may see his own deities such as Rama, Krishna, Shiva, Kali, etc., One has a narrow experience and the other a broader one. They differ, disagree and dissent. A man with narrow experience, but the latter will not accept Krishna, Shiva, Kali, as he lacks in experience.

Sri Ramkrishna means to say that man with more experience becomes liberal. Even he (Sri Ramkrishna) goes so far as to declare that blessed is he who has united all into ‘One’. It reveals his idea of ‘Oneness’ which is considered as an experience of the casual body where it is experienced that the casual body of the aspirant assumes multifarious forms being the creation of imagination and the aspirant comes to be acquainted with the esoteric secret that all the various deities about whom he heard so much is but the various forms of the one and the same casual body.

The Vedic principle of ‘Oneness’ deals with a man alive and thus announces:

(1) “Ekam Rupam Bahudha Ya Karoti” – (One human form of a living man made numberless and seen within their own bodies by also numberless men).

(2) “Ekam Bijam Bahudha Ya Karoti” – (One seed made innumerable and seen within).

The deities are but fictions and the fountainhead of disagreement in the midst of the human race whereas this Oneness brings ‘harmony of love’ and the ‘Point of union’ between man and man as sought by Swami Vivekananda though it did not reach him.