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 MARCH --1882

 Place : -  Temple  of  Dakshineswar

 (Henceforth  Shri  Ramkrishna  will be  spoken  of  as

Thakur” when required  as  it is so  done in the  Gospel )

48)      “In the Vedas it is spoken of the bird Homa (a species of bird not known now). It lives high up in the sky and her eggs are laid there. The egg starts falling down and the downward fall continues for many days . It hatches as it goes down and the chick comes out and continues falling . Its eyes open and wings grow in the course of falling down . With the opening of the eyes, it comes to know that the fall on touching the earth will dash it to pieces . Then it shoots up high in the sky towards the mother bird”.

It is an allusion of God-the-Preceptor . The mother bird Homa is God, the absolute . The chick is God-the-Preceptor and He comes down and appears within the body . Then he shoots up high, as otherwise He may be encased in the body . In the course of shooting up, the sportive forms of God are seen as God-the-Preceptor is God, the Absolute, nut with form .

49)      “He (Thakur) became absent-minded in the course of hearing”.

To avoid hearing of any mundane affair, the mind of Thakur shut up in the sixth plane . It was spontaneous .

50)     “It is called Samadhi.”

Samadhi means transformation of life-power to God .

There are three stages of this transformation—

1)    To see God in the seventh plane.

2)    To be transformed into God—‘I am He’.

3)    To be eliminated in the Absolute, or in other words, to lose the sense of ego-existence—Sthitha Samadhi .

The Buddhist in their list have got 135 kinds of transformations (Samadhi). It is as if to measure God with a measuring tape . Every time this transformation reveal a new character . An ordinary man is not blessed with this kind of realization . Only the Nityasiddha, Iswarkati, Avarats (vide Foreword—Page26) are favoured with realizations like this which come to pass every now and then .

The transformation as experienced in meditation is of lower category . This transformation has been divided into four classes by Thakur :

1)    Unmana—to collect the mind and to have it fixed at the meeting point of the two eye brows . The mind here looks like the point of a needle made of God’s light .

2)    Chetan—the point of the needle penetrates into the cerebrum and God’s light flashes in the in side from neck to head . The ego-consciousness remains in this part of the body only and not in the lower portion .

3)    Jara—It is to collect and transform the life-power to a point only . The point remains bearing the sense of the point only . Its location is at the end of the seventh plane and it is to be reckoned as a geometrical point .

4)    Sthitha—It is entire elimination of ego-existence and nothing can be said of it .

51)     “ A light  spasm  came  over  the  body  of  Shri  Ramkrishna”.

This light spasm (Siharan) is one of the eight insignia as manifested and seen in the body when life-power within undergoes transformation . In fact life-power makes her way in the cerebrum, touches the cerebrum and tries to flash into God’s light . She does not stop there but comes back and again goes back to the cerebrum . It is called her dance of joy .

52) .    “All through  and  over  his  body  hairs  stood  on  end”.

Standing of hair on end signifies manifestation of God in the body . A change is taking place within the body and the expression of changes appears on the body . It is also one of the signs belonging to the group of eight outwards signs of inward transformations (Asta Sattvik Lakshman).

53).    “Tears  of  joy  rolled  down  the  cheeks”.

It signifies that transformation is taking place within the body . Life-power is on way to the cerebrum . It acts within, and as an insignia of action tears come down .

54)    “As  if,  from  time  to time  he  is  seeing  something  in  him  and  smiling “.

No, he not smiling at all . When life-power enters the cerebrum the cheeks heave and the lips are parted . To an ordinary man it will appear like a smile .

When God separates from the body some expressions bearing the marks of separation come over the body . One of them is light parting of the lips with slight trembling as if it is a smile . In fact, it is not a smile but mark of separation of God from the body (Paramhansa condition) .

55) .   “ Is  he  seeing  within  himself  God  with  form  made  of  God’s  light” ?

There are two kinds of God’s light . One is with form and another is a splash of light only . The later is of superior type to the former . Form made of light is seen in the sixth plane, whereas splash of light at the entrance of the seventh plane .      

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 (Henceforth  Shri  Ramkrishna  will be  spoken  of  as

Thakur” when required  as  it is so  done in the  Gospel )

42)   “There are four classes of man . They are—(1) those from whose body God does not emanate. They are called Baddhajiva (of fettered one) . (2) Those who have inkling for God but cannot break up the fetters of the body and if sometime it is done , the emanation is but very poor . They are called Mumukshujiva (or an as pirant for liberation). (3) Those from whose body God emanates in full measure and gets Himself separated from the body. In some cases it may happen in the life time and again in some cases at the time of death . To get God separated from body in the life time is a rare thing . They are called Muktajiva (or liberated one) . (4) Those who have got God separated from their body with their birth are called Nityajiva (or ever-free).

1)   Baddhajiva is a man belonging to the ordinary category. He is fittered with woman and gold . “They camel chews and eats thorny plants . Blood trickles down its jaws . But its thinks that it is the best life”—Sri Ramkrishna .

2)   Mumukshujiva is he who has got a taste of God’s emanation from the body but in fact the taste is a meager one . Sometimes he forgets the taste and sometimes it awakens in him .

3)   Muktajiva are of two kinds---

(a)  God emanates from the body in full measure . He is shown by God-the Preceptor in the cerebrum and He is seen by the seer . This is but the supreme liberation .

(b)  There is also another class of liberation . The God comes out from your body in your form . With two hands uplifted . He dances with jot and says, “I am free! I am free!” It happens before the very eyes of the seer and he witnesses the whole episode . “God with form will stand before eyes and speak out, then it is correct and prefect and you will be rest assured”—Sri Ramkrishna .

4)   Nityajiva—Nityajiva is he in whose body God emanates and assumes the form of God-the Preceptor, chooses the body as His field of sportive forms and expresses in various manifestations. These Nityajivas in their form live forever and God when required takes the form of a Nityajiva and appears before a devotee .

     Moses is seen by devotees even now though some 3500 years have rolled by. Buddha though born 2500 years ago is seen. Jesus of 2000 years old is seen. Mohammed though born 1500 years ago is still seen. Sankar, Sri Chaitanya and now a days, Sri Ramkrishna are also seen.

     How does it occur ?

    God is in the body. The whole Universe is in God. The Universe is partitioned into three chambers of time—Past, Present and Future. God-the Preceptor appears in the form which had been in the past and gives His grace to the devotee. A Jew will get Moses as his God-the Preceptor, a Buddhist will get Buddha, Jesus for a Christian and so on . In course of time if God is so disposed then He will make the seer understand that all these forms of Moses, Buddha and Jesus are but separate forms of God in the body.

                               

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43)     “Once faith is gained, then everything is gained”.

               

              Faith means God’s emanation from the body and to witness and realise . His sportive forms, otherwise no real faith can grow. Realizations are of two kinds—a complete one and the other by part. By part, it means to see God with form or to see God’s light and in some cases it means both, God with form as well as God’s light . The complete realization is to see God as shown by God-the-Preceptor. Thakur said to Naren, the junior, “If you do not see God, then how can real love for God grow in you”?

44)         “You must have heard the tremendous power as exercised and evinced by faith . The Purana (Hindu Mythology) says that Ramachandra, though he was God Himself, required a bridge to be built to cross over the sea to Ceylon (SriLanka), Hanumana (an ideal devotee) had faith in Rama’s name . By dint of his faith, in one jump he crossed the sea and landed on the other side. No bridge was required for him”.

Ceylon—represents cerebrum where life-power transforms into God .

To build a bridge—means to go step by step in the process of transformation .

Ramachabdra, though he was an incarnation of God, went step by step in the process of   transformation  

of becoming God. Hanumana was a real devotee . He saw Ramachandra, the embodiment of God. To see an incarnation of God is equivalent to get oneself transformed into in spirit . Hanumana trusting in the name of Ramachandra crossed the sea in one jump as he saw God . He had not go by steps . He was perfectly aware that God and God’s name are one and the same . “Utter the name of God and along with the utterances, the life-power will be transformed into God . Then you have attained the matured power of transformation”—Shri Ramkrishna . Life power being transformed will reach the cerebrum in a jump like a monkey . Hanumana saw God sohe had such real faith in the name of God .                

Here in the simile of Ramachandra and Hanumana, a difference has been set out between the transformation of life power into God as happens in case of an incarnation of God and a true devotee The incarnation of God is acquainted with every nook and corner of the process of transformation whereas a devotee gets the thing all on a sudden. The former is a full- fledged one and the later is the result only .

45)        “Vibhishana wrote the name of Rama on a leaf and tied it in a man’s wearing cloth as the man was about to cross the sea . Vibhishana said to him, “Don’t be afraid . Have faith and walk over the sea . But mind that as soon as you will lose your faith, you will be drowned,” The man went on easily over the sea . On his way a keen desire burst out in him to see what was tied in the corner of his cloth .  He drew out the leaf and found only the name of Rama written thereon . He thought—“Well, the name Rama only ?” No sooner had doubt crept into his mind than he sank in the water”.

“If God out of sheer mercy frees Himself from the body, then there is emanation and liberation”—Shri Ramkrishna .

            Rama was God . Vibhishana was not God. He was a true devotee . He wanted to show mercy so                          

that the  sea of life and reach the cerebrum. But it could not be . Only God and God alone can show such mercy; then the man can easily walk over the sea of life and reach the other coast .

            46).    “If a man with faith in God commits the mast heinous sin such as killing a cow , abrahmin, or

woman—even yet his faith will save him . Let him pray and say,” O Lord ! such an action will not be repeated by me’, and then he need not be afraid of losing himself.”

“God excuses a man but once’—Shri Ramkrishna .

To commit a sin—means to hurt himself. God is in you . With hurts God retires in inner parts . He does not emanate . The evil of sin comes over your body and your body becomes stiff and does not permit emanation .It is the highest punishment . It foils the sole purpose of life .

47)      “A naughty boy assumes a very gentle pose while he sits by his father . But he is quite different person when he plays with others in the market .”

This was spoken about Swami Vivekananda .

A naughty boy—means a body where God’s power will be manifested in a greater degree .

To sit by his father—means to be in meditation . The mind is in the seventh plane and everything is quite i.e.in Samadhi .

To play with others in the market—It was the forecast Thakur predicted about Swami Vevekananda, the most prominent figure in the Parliament of Religions in Chicago .

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 Place : -  Temple  of  Dakshineswar

 (Henceforth  Shri  Ramkrishna  will be  spoken  of  as

Thakur” when required  as  it is so  done in the  Gospel )

36.                “Yearning for God is the appearance of. Aurora. Then the sun bursts

                                          forth. Yearning is succeeded by seeing God .”                                 

Aurora is seen the plane whence God’s light is seen . Seeing of the sun has two aspects : ---

            

(1)      There is a hanging silk screen before your eyes and behind it is a glorious rising sun . It is the entrance to the seventh plane .

(2)       Second one is Atma, God . It is the seventh plane .

37 .               “ There will be a combination of three forces of attractions and they will 

                        undergo transformation into God and God will be seen .The three attraction  are---(1) the attraction of the worldly man for his worldly possession.(2) the love of a mother to her child and (3) attachment of a wife to her husband.”

               

The three attractions are  (1)  this physical sheath, (2)  the aerial sheath and  (3)  Bhagavati Tanu or the sheath made of God’s light as seen in the sixth plane .

Here the body has been divided according to the Vedas . They tally with each other and they are not different in substance, save and except, that the divisions and realizations in the Vedic system is much deeper and clearer for a man to understand the process of transformation of life-power into God .

1)       The attraction of the worldly man for his worldly possessions---is body . The foremost love a man entertains is for himself i.e., he loves himself utmost and best . His soul will emanate from his body and he will losing his attachment for his own body .

2)       A mother’s love for her child—is the aerial body . It comes out from the physical sheath and it is seen . What an aerial body ? In dream a man sees himself to fly . The flying body, he sees in the dream, is the aerial body .

3)       Chaste wife—is the inner body made of God’s light . The body made of God’s light is ultimately transformed into God and He is seen in the seventh plane .

38 .                     “Mew, Mew,” cries the kitten and calls its mother and

                                                   that is its sole function”.

 For seeing God, all that a man can do is to keep on praying . Shri Chaitanya always used to say ‘Krishna’! ‘Krishna’!

                       Thakur used to say—‘Mother ! Mother’!

                        Jesus used to say—   ‘Father !  Father’ !

                        Mohammed used to say—‘Allah ! Allah’!

The realizations which are seen are spontaneous . It is called Vidwat of the Vedas . The man who is blessed with all these realizations is but a mere witness .

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39          “Elephant God and Elephant-driver God”.  

                Elephant God---is mind in the body .

                Elephant-driver---is Atma and He expresses Himself in the body in the form of consciousness .

                The mind has an inclination to conduct you for enjoyment . But the mind is to be kept under control . So you should always be guided by your conscience exactly like elephant driver who controls the elephant from going astray .

40 .                        “Water is God but it has its  own form”.

God is in every man . In some men He has expressed Himself with good attributes and in some again with badness . Good is to be courted and bad is to be shunned .

41 .                 “There was a meadow, The cowherd boys used to tend their cows .A poisonous snake lived there .Everybody was afraid of it . None dared to come near the snake.

One day a Brahmachari(a man with a vow of celibacy for attaining God in his own

body) came on the way .The cowherd boys warned him not to go on the way .The   Brahmachari did not hear them .He went on .The snake met him .The snake was charmed. It got its initiation from the Brahmachari. He told the snake that he would come and see it after a year . The snake became very docile. The cowherd boys noticed  it. One day they took the snake by tail and dashed it repeatedly against the ground .                 

The snake was severely hurt . It did not dare to come and again from its hole in the            

daytime It was reduced to a skeleton . A year rolled by . Brahmachari came back and   

enquired the cowherd boys about the snake. The cowherd boys replied, “The snake is dead” .Brahnachari knew that it could not be . He went to the hole of the snake and called it. The snake came out and bowed down . The Brahmachari was much moved to see the reduced condition of the snake and asked the cause of it . The snake related the whole episode . The Brahmachari said that you should be knowing to protect yourself and added that you must be raising your hood and would hiss but you must not be biting others”.

The cowherd boys—are the passions in the body and they tend and tempt a man for enjoyment and other misdoings .

        Cow—is body. The body is moved according to directions of the cowherds .

        Snake—is life-power.

        Brahmachari—is God-the-Preceptor .

This life-power may be conducted outside in the world or it may be diverted towards the cerebrum in the inside of the body . When the life-power is let loose in the world it runs for enjoyment. The cowherd boys are highly satisfied as they are the masters of the body.

God-the-Preceptor came and gave His grace. The God’s grace turned the life-power in the inside of the body. None of the passions would attack vehemently. At this stage you must be resisting them. God-the-Preceptor has given you His grace . You are sure to win . “When a father takes his child by his own hand, there is no fear for the child to fall down”.----Shri Ramkrishna .

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(Henceforth  Shri  Ramkrishna  will be  spoken  of  as

Thakur” when required as  it is so done in the  Gospel )

29.               “Always  remember  God  and  talk  His  glories”.

Shri Chaitanya always used to repeat the name of God, Krishna, (Nobody knows the real name of God . Aseribe any name to God and pray with sincerity and the response is sure to come.

You will find that God will come out in the form as described by you and He will talk with you). This Continuous repetitions of God’s name will bring the tongue in touch with the roof of the palate.

This soft hurt between the tongue and the palate will create and start Yoga—transformation . God is in the body in a dormant condition. He is to be awakened ; in other words, manifestation of God may come in this way . There are two points in the body from where the transformation may start . Softly to clap one’s hands and utter God’s name or to repeat God’s name and thereby the tongue will continually touch the roof of the mouth . “Both in the morning and evening repeat God’s name by clapping your hands”—Shri Ramkrishna.

30 .                Every  now  and  then  pay  a  visit  to  God’s  devotees  or  holy  men”.

Who is a holy man? By a single utterance of God’s name the man who gets himself transformed into God is a holy man. In meditation a man is transformed into God but it is a slow measure. To be transformed into God at every moment denotes perpetuity to remain in the state of being God.

The man who has seen God is also a holy man but not in full measure .

 Who is a devotee ? The man who has seen the manikin form of God (Manus Ratan—vide, Foreward, Page 34) in him and carries the Manus Ratan all along his body is a devotee.

 God is in the body, and in the body He Himself assumes the form of a devotee and repeats the name of God by clapping His hands. And here, God, God’s name, and the devotee meet, unite and become a triad (Avatar).           

 31.                  “A maid in the household of a rich man is very particular to do her

                      duties but her mind is fixed on her own home in the native villag .”

                      Maid---is body.

                      Household of a rich man---is this world.

                      Own home---is God.

You are a mere spectator and passerby in this world of grandeur and you should be remembering that you have come from God and you belong to God and you must return to God.

32.             “ First get your hand besmeared with the oil of divine consciousness and then set

                      you hands to other work in the world “

                      Oil---is the symbol of Bhakti in the first instance .

                      Oil---is Chaitamya or Divine Consciousness in the second instance . The last symbol of Chaitanya is honey ; and Chaitanya itself looks like a brilliant red light . The oil of divine conscious-ness is Chaitanya, that is , Tattajnan (no ego-consciousness but a perpetual consciousness of God).

 For a man to live in this state is merely to live for speaking about the manifestation of God already realized and seen and furthermore to witness God’s all other sportive forms which are to come.

33 .               “If you like to have butter, then you let milk set into curd in a by-place .

                       If milk is shaken every now and then, it won’t turn into curd .Next ,you

                       set aside all other work, sit alone in a secluded retreat and before the

                       sun rises you must churn milk. Then only butter may he had”.            

                            Butter---means God, Atma.

Let milk set into curd in a by-place—means to be along. The mind is to be withdrawn from the world and to be kept confined in the body. You must not see such thing, touch such thing and hear such voice as may agitate your mind and create the least disturbance in your blood . If these bindings are not rigidly observed then milk will not turn into curd.

Before the sun rises---means within 25 years. In full-bloom-youth, (i.e., 25 years) the butter comes out the body must be in an unsullied condition, both inside as well as outside ; the age must be within twenty five ; you must be giving away the body i.e., you must be separating from the body and get your animal life transformed into God and for good.

Kundalini or life–power is the churning rod. She makes her way into the cerebrum and by soft dancing softens the cerebrum making room for God and ultimately God comes out.

34 .           “If the butter is placed in water of the world then it will not mix

                  But it will keep on floating”.

This state is obtained in Tattajnan when no ego-consciousness exists and divine consciousness  of ‘Thou’ and ‘Thou’ predominates .

35 .            “Is there any possibility of seeing God”?

Yes God with form and without form is seen in multifarious aspects. Its start is to see and get God-the-Preceptor (Satchidamananda Gura) in the body.

You adore a certain form and ascribe the form to God. God will assume the form and He will appear to you with the form. It is seeing God.

God-the-Preceptor is showing you the Atma, God. It is seeing God.

The world is seen within the Atma, God. It is seeing God . Thi8s Universe is again changed into a seed. It is seeing God . The seed in its turn again changes into a dream. It is seeing God .

Next succeeds the unknown and unknowable region. Here comes a temporary lull in the realization as no-ego-consciousness rules or exists.

Again when consciousness comes back it is divine consciousness and it cries out . “Not I, but thou ! Thou !”

“My friend, I go to seek out my own self but I cannot”—Sri Ramkrishna.

This ‘Thou’ takes a form and flares up like a meteor emitting brilliant and light. And again starts the seeing of God.

Then comes the visualization of Descent. The divine consciousness is coming down with forms and they are seen. It is called the Descent of Chaitanya.

 Next, the manikin, Manus Ratan, is seen . It is succeeded by God’s sports and the Absolute and vice-versa—the two termini aspects of the very same thing. Here is also seen the sportive forms of God. It is also seeing of God. ‘There is no end of it ‘.

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25 .               “No, no, not clay ! The  image  is  made  of  God’s  light “

A real devotee sees that the image is made of God’s light . At first a shining light is seen all around in the image . Then the light develops and covers the image . The image appears to be made of light only . This light does not come from outside but it emits from the eyes of the devotee . First it takes the shape of image in outline and then it covers the whole image and lastly there remains the form of image made of God’s light . The God is within you and from there, comes out His light through your eyes and shrouds the image .Apparently, on the surface it appears so but if a deep penetration is made then it transpires that the devotee is seeing this image of light in his own brain and the happening before his sight is but an outward reflection of his inner condition . At this atage the devotee is not in a position to demarcate the inside from the outside. He knows that it is an outward occurrence .

An occurrence of Thakur’s life in the form of realization is quoted here which will throw light over the confusion of inside or outside .

Thakur once saw that Eternity (lit : eternal time in the form of a man called Kalapurush) came out of his body.

Thakur prayed to his Divine Mother to do away with the man . The Divine Mother at once hacked the man into pieces .But there was no blood there in the outside . Thakur witnessed the whole episode within him and nothing happened in the outside .

Another realization is cited here which will throw more light and clarify the thing . God is seen . Then various sportive forms of God are also seen . By such continuous realizations the body becomes very light . At this stage it is seen that God with form comes out of the body and enters the body again . God in the body makes you know that God with form seen in the outside does not come from without but comes out from your own body .

26 ..               “Thousand  lectures will  not  render  the  least  help 

                       to make  a  man  understand  anything  about  God”

     If God reveals Himself to you then you may know God, otherwise nor . You yourself do not know the sports of God as evinced by your lectures, then how can you make others understand about God ? Had you been acquainted with the thorough text of God’s sports then you would have remained silent . Of course, those who get God’s commandment have a different case . They do not deliver lectures but they simply live by speaking out the God’s sportive forms as seen by them in their body ; nay, not only this, but they find out that they do not speak out but God in them talks and teaches others .

27 .                 “If  it  Is  required  that  others  are  to  be  taught  then  God

                         Himself  will teach  them. He lives  in  every  man , Granted,

                        It is an error  to  worship  the  image  of  clay, but  God  is

                        fully aware that  He is  worshipped  in  that  way  and  He  is

                       satisfied  with  it . You  need  not  be  beating  your  brain  over  it “.

    God living in you understands the disposition of your mind and if it is sincere one . He is satisfied with it.’The image of clay’ is this human body. The body is to be worshipped and propitiated and then God will emanate from the body and will appear as Atma in the cerebrum . “Till a daughter (Parvati—is the name of the daughter . She is Bhagavati Tanu—fourth sheath—sixth plane ) is born in the house of the Himalaya, the Himalaya is but a huge heap of stone—i.e., clay”. Himalaya is a man, Daughter is Bhagavati Tanu .

28 .                    All  the  various  forms  of  worship  have  been  provided  by

                         God  Himself. He  is  the  Lord  of  the  Universe . Every  iota

                         Of  creation  is  His  own . It  is  his  arrangement  to  provide

                        different  men with   different  stages  of  manifestations  and 

                        realizations .  The  mother  sets up  separate  menu  according

                       to  the  taste  of  her  different  children .”

                   

       Here it is  spoken of God’s emanation in the body. God emanates in the body in different measures. Somewhere a shilling and somewhere a pound .

       In some cases there are realizations as depicted in the holy Tantra (a treatise on Yoga and the realization is to see God with form . But Tantra does not end here . After seeing God with form there comes realizations of the sportive forms of God . At the time of death the ego-consciousness merges in Mahakaran or the first Cause,. Tantra’ has got four sheaths in six planes ) .

       In some cases God manifests Himself with the realizations as laid down in the Vedas—five sheaths in seven planes .

        Again in some cases God expresses Himself in the realizations of the Vedas and also that of Vedanta (lit; the end of knowledge), i.e, to know God stage by stage till nothing remains—the ego-consciousness melts away in the First Cause ; the God opens Himself and shows His inward composition and component parts (i.e, Sadhan of Atma). This Vedanta is realization of God in five stages and they are ---

          1.   God  is  in  the  body .

          2.    The  Universe  is  in  God .

          3.    Universe,  the  God,  changes  into  a  seed.

           4.    This  seed  again  changes  into  a  dream .

           5 .    The  dream  vanishes—the  ego-consciousness  evaporates .

                    What  remains  nobody  can  know  or  say .

                The Ascent (Agam) ends here . Then comes Descent (Nigam). In descent there are multifarious conditions and realizations .   

RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

MARCH----1882

Place  :---Temple  of  Dakshineswar 

(Henceforth  Shri  Ramkrishna  will be  spoken  of  as

Thakur” when required  as  it is so  done in the  Gospel )

19 .  “Alas, he is not free, already married”!

Continence is an essential requirement for attaining God in the body. All animal passions are but obstructions to the way of God’s freeing and manifesting in the body

“The man who has renounced the pleasure enjoyed in the company of a wife, has really given up all the pleasures of the world”—Shri Ramkrishna .

Everything on the face of the earth takes place as God wills it . The man is fettered with a wife at the will of God . So in this case it appears that God’s grace is less. Had he been favoured by God there would have been no marriage at all for him .

20 . “Ah me ! He is not only married but has also got a child”.

 A son is born of me and it is reckoned as a second birth of my own body .

 “You, in another form, are your own son”—Shri Ramkrishna .

The full measure of your body has gone down at the birth of your child as he is come out from your body. It means a loss of potential power in you . So there will be very meager emanation of God in your body and you are not favored with all the knowledge of the sportive forms of God in you.

The body is required to be kept intact in an unsullied condition . Then there will be an emanation of God in the body in full measure . All the sportive forms of God will be seen . The mystery of life and death in connection with the world and everything else surrounding you will be solved . For instance, the world, you see, appears to be before your eyes. But really it is not so . You have seen God within you. Then you will come to see that this world in the God within you . Your knowledge of self-ego plus body is but a mirror and the world is reflected there. So you are seeing the world in the outside but it is exactly like a mirage—something not in existence but appears to be true and real.

21.  “Is she endowed with goodness (Vidya-sakti) or badness (Avidya-sakti)”.

Goodness is conscience, renunciation, of God etc.

                                          

Badness is to have a keen worldly attachment, to have more creature comforts, devoid of the sense of right and wrong .having no respect or regard for God etc .

God has manifested Himself in everybody in the form of life-force, and in some this life-force is tinged with goodness and in some again with badness .

Why there is such difference ?

It is predestination .

 What is predestination ?

It is very clearly exposed in the story of Prahlada in the Mahavarata, a mythology of India .

Prahlada was sent to school when he was but a mere child. He saw the first alphabet “K”and tears rolled down from his cheeks. (K is the first alphabet in the list of letters in India. Krishna, the name of God as described, starts with K). The alphabet K reminded Prahlada about Krishna. His love of God burst out seeing the simple letter K. Kiddy Prahlada was not aware anything of God. It did not matter with the child but tears came out spontaneously. The spontaneity signified predestination .

22 .  “   And you are blessed with knowledge”?

The man who has got knowledge of himself is called Jnani, who is he ?

The body must be in full-bloom-youth i.e. between 24 and 25 years of age .There will be no defect in the body. God in full measure will come out and accumulate in the cerebrum. God-the-Preceptor will point out and show God (Atma). Then succeeds various forms of God and they will annihilate time and space. Then comes the realization and consciousness from within that I am not body but I am God .

This state is attainment of knowledge and he who has attained this state is called a man of knowledge (Jnani). This is but the first stage of attaining knowledge as in full knowledge there remains no-ego-consciousness to give out “Not I, but Thou (God)”.

                                          

23.  “Yes, have you got faith in God with form or without form”?

 “God emanates from the body and is transformed into ‘no-ego-consciousness’ and again from “no-ego-consciousness’ comes God with form”—Shri Ramkrishna . (Nitya and Lila—from Lila to Nitya and Nitya to Lila) .

God with form is seen in the fourth sheath or the sixth plane . Here the devotee sees his God with form. You are a devotee of Jesus and if (God in you takes pity on you then He will come out from your body in the form of Jesus and you will see Him ; nay, you may even talk Him though not in all cases .

There is another form of higher realization of God with forms . Jesus you see before you but that Jesus will be transformed before your very eyes into Mary, and Mary again may change into Shri Ramkrishna and so on . It makes you conscious that there is one God but He appears in various forms .

God without form starts from seeing the Atma in the cerebrum till God, after various sportive forms, reaches and is transformed into ‘no-ego-consciousness’, and if God wills it then He may descend into divine consciousness only in give out—“Not, I, but Thou and Thou “.

24 .    “But cling to your own faith “.

If God makes one understand all about God then one understands what God is .

If God out of His own accord emanates and in the body and realization in full degree covers at every stage of transformation of the life-force to God then God is seen, understood and can be spoken of. Nobody knows who is God or what is God. If God makes Himself known to you then you are in a state to know .

RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

RELIGION  AND  REALIZATION

MARCH --1882

Place : -  Temple  of  dakshineswar

(Henceforth  Shri  Ramkrishna  will be  spoken  of  as

Thakur” when required  as  it is so  done in the  Gospel )

13)     “No, no evening prayer with rituals, Mine is not so.”

Evening prayer with rituals is but showy religion . It is for the beginners . Thakur was a master in the Supreme Culture—Brahma Vidya. All that was needed in his part was either to remember or to hear any attribute of God or to think of God and God would manifest in his body sometimes in half measure and sometimes in full, and the inner-self of Thakur would transform into God.No showy  religion can be performed by him who has attained God in him, as his inner- self will  transform into God no sooner he will remember Him .        

14)    “Who is this person of mold mine ? I feel an inclination attracting me to go back to him.

Is it possible for any one to achieve greatness without a thorough scholarly education”?

Lo, wonder! I would like coming again to him. Either to-morrow or day after, I shall be Coming again to him.”

 Shri M’s purification of mind started at the sight of Thakur—God in person . Shri M was thinking of Thakur. Thought of God would purify the mind and body. A winged insect of rain has seen the glow of fire . It is sure to come and jump in the fire . It is not the glow of fire but luster on a gem and it will not burn though a jump is taken in it .                                             

15    “He had a moleskin wrapper put on him .”

This is the first touch of description of Thakur in his ordinary life as given by Shri M.Thakur was a well-reputed monk (Sadhu-half of God emanated from the body), a saint (Sannayasi—the body and God separated). But he had neither matted hair, nor clean uniform of ochre colour, nor wooden sandal, nor a big staff, or a wooden water-pot nor any outward sign of a monk by which he might be recognized . He dressed and looked like an ordinary plain country gentleman . What sort of Paramhamsa was this ?

Thakur was the God incarnation of the era (Avatar) .

Every era has its own requirements . The life of Avatar (Incarnation of God) was the fulfillment of those requirements. Thakur led an ideal life of the era, keeping balance with the environment and as such, to teach others that His life would be followed.

It was the era of Buddha --------

Shri Buddha was seated. He had a dress put on him like that of a Buddhist monk. His whole body was covered with cloth of yellow colour. His disciples, the monks, had the same dress on .    

The world saw  Buddha and his monk-disciples . With an extreme reverence they paid their respect and homage to them but they kept aloof by standing at a distance and they eyed askance . The world did not dare approach them nor sat by them. Well, the Buddha and monks were gods—a different set of people and they were not meant for, nor did they belong to, the ordinary human race . Shri Buddha was for his monk, disciples and not for the world . My own dear one would be living my life . He had no necessity for such fine dress of ochre colour ---

Yes, it was Shri Sankar (Shri Shankaracharya—A.D. 788-820) with well-shaved head and face, dressed in ochre-coloured uniform from top to toe. Like a fountain his genius was showering sparkling water all around and his erudition and scholarship like another sun were shining and illurninating the horizon .

With all his glorious disciples Shri Sankar was found seated . There were Padmapada, Mandam Misra, Trotak and others . It was a mad thought to judge the superiority or inferiority in them .

It was an amazing sight to the world—Shri Sankar with his disciples . The human race with all their reverence bowed down to them and went by with a sigh of grief thinking that this life of Shri Sankar and his disciples was never meant for them, as it was impossible for them to get the talents, achievements and self-assertions of Sankar and his disciples. The human race left them and went after pondering within that God was simply for Sankar and his disciples and not for ordinary man----

Shri Ramanuja appeared in the arena after some two hundred years and a new edition of Sankar ; besides, there was a severe strict rigidity in him .

With equal reverence showed to Sankar, the human race bowed down to Ramanuja and went by . They could not find any link between their life and the life of Ramanuja. They approached him with great expectation but they found that it was not for them--- 

      

Place-“-PURI” in Orissa .

15) Look there  :  There was Shri Chaitanya sealed . He was talking about Radha’s (a female devotee) love for Shri Krishna to his own devotees .

He looked like both Jupiter and Cupid combined together . But simply he had a torn rag on his loins . To attain God by self-exertion (Vividisha) through privations and cynicism was introduced by Buddha and Sankar ; but it was not so prominent with them as it was practiced and followed with rigid principle by Shri Chaitanya  in his own life .

The world was the magnetic and dazzling figure of Shri Chaitanya . But from a distance, mangave up a sigh, lost his heart and went by . Only in passed in his mind—“Alack ! he is not mine”.------

Thakur had a wrapper on his body and sleepers on his feet ; yes, he attained God in accordance with the outlined principles of the Vedanta (Paramahansa) .

Shri M brought back hope in the mind of the humanity by this description of Thakur who was not unlike a plain and simple man his daily dress like others .

In winter I put on a wrapper on my body and sleepers on my feet . Thakur led a life—a very similar life like that of mine. But Thakur attained God. How am I to do so ?

Yes, there is expectation and hope for every one us . We must be remembering the announcement made by Thakur—“Uncle Moon is everyone’s uncle.” God is for everybody. (Moon in India is a man and not a woman like Diana of Roman mythology).

Thakur attained God and through his grace I shall be attaining God also .

16)     “With whom shall I talk to, when I go to Calcutta if Keshab dies ?”

 God expresses Himself in and through a devotee . He creates a true devotee by giving him His grace. Thakur took a liking on Keshab (Keshab Chandra Sen was founder and leader of a Brahmo Sect), gave him his (Thakur’s) grace and Keshab saw God in the form of Kali ; so he acknowledged the existence of Kali . Shri Keshab was a real devotee ; so Thakur had a deep affection for him .

17)   “Well, do you know one Mr. Cook is come ? It he lecturing out here ?”

Thakur was perfectly sure that lectures cold not render any help to make a see God .

Lectures are but temporary measures . The people will no doubt listen to you with all attention but they are sure to forget it in no time . It does not leave a permanent stamp on the audience . No action will be produced in the body of the audience if the lecture has got no commandment from the God . “If God frees Himself from the body then there is liberation (Mukti)”—and it means religion .

18)  “The brother of Pratap did came here . He stopped with me for some days, he was out of employment . He told me that he wanted to live with me . I came to learn that he left his family at his father-in-law’s place . His family is a big one and a whole brood of them .He was taken to task for this .Just a fancy ! He is the head of such a big family ! Will his neighbour feed his children, take care of them and bring them up ? Is he not ashamed that his wife and children are maintained by somebody else and they have been left in an uncared condition in his father-in-law’s place ? He had a severe scolding from me and I asked him to pick up a job . Then he was induced to leave this place”.

Here is a sketch chalked out by Thakur for an ordinary man to lead his life . He must be carning his own livelihood ; if he is a family man he must be maintaining his family and at the same time he must be praying to be a real devotee and love God . “A gentle breeze shakes a leaf of a tree . God with it, and the leaf is shaken”.

Pratap’s brother is encumbered with a family. It is so ordained and it has turned out to be so . But he comes to Thakur ; that is, he has got an inclination of love to God . Yes, it is so ; let him earn his livelihood, maintain I is family and let him love God at the same time . This is Thakur’s injunction on Pratap’s brother.

Let us scan here a bit of Thakur’s own life . What did he himself do at the outset ? He came in the temple of Dakshineswar and took up the work of worshipping the Divine Mother Kali and he had a fixed pay for it . Then a through change came over him both within and without . The proprietor of Dakshineswar temple granted him a pension .

Thakur himself used to say, “I live on person”.