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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 )

116).                       “The  mind  is  all  in  all”.

 The mind of Shri Radha (the heroine of Shri Bhagavat—a holy epic) was transformed into the image of Shri Krishna (the hero) . So on whatever side she was casting her sight, her eyes met with the image of Shri Krishna .                     

  117).                      “But  there  is  one  mind”.

  The mind has got various phases . But all these phases merge and are transformed into one “Atma”—God with forms and attributes, and finally God without forms and attributes .

118).                    “Mind keeps a man in bondage . Mind makes a man free. I am

                              free man .

                              It is no matter if I live in the world or in the forest . What can

                              keep me bound?

                              I am a child of God. He is king of the kings. As such, who

                              dares keep me in bondage”?

If a man is bitten by a snake and if he keeps on saying emphatically, “There is no venom in me” then the venom leaves him . So if a man keeps on saying with right earnestness,

“I am not bound, I am free” then he turns out to be free”!

It is a prayer of a devotee to God. He listens to the prayer . One Mr. Hazra asked Thakur, “Will my prayer be heard by God” ? Thakur at once replied, “Yes, hundred times”. The above prayer has the character of self-exertion . To attain God by self-exertion then at the time of death, through the grace of God, he may have liberation—but the bliss of liberation cannot be enjoyed when alive . It is only spontaneous emanation which can set a man free to have its bliss in the lifetime .Spontaneous emanation of God from the body is the way of a kitten . It is exactly as if a father has taken charge of his own child . In case of a monkey cub, it is the cub which clutches the neck of its mother .

119).                        The wretched man who keeps on saying, ‘I am bound.

                                I am bound,’ gets himself really bound . He who says                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        day and night, ‘I am but a sinner.’ ‘I am but a sinner,’

                                in fact becomes a sinner .”

The intellect is colored by mind, and continued thinking of sin tarnishes the intellect. A tarnished intellect makes a man go down .

120).                         “To  see  God  is  the  end  of  life”

 No one can attain God by self-exertion . But if self-exertion persists vehemently then an advance may be made . It is through sheer grace of God that one can attain God . This grace of God is but spontaneous emanation .

121).                        “A man must have burning faith in Him that he may say,

                                ‘What! I have repeatedly taken the name of God, and so

                                 sin cannot cling to me . There is no sin in me. I am not bondage”.

 Such mental force may be ascribed to God’s grace. What is God’s grace? It is exactly to carry a burning light in a room keep in darkness for a thousand years and the room is illuminated in the twinkling of an eye. God’s grace is not a mental phenomenon. It is seen and it is obtained, but by one or two in an era.

122).                        “If the name of God is taken repeatedly by a man,

                                  then it makes him pure in mind and body .”

 There is no difference between God and God’s name. The name of God makes God manifested in the body.

123).                         I only prayed for devotion is my Divine Mother.”

                                 Is it only a mental operation?  Oh  no!

 The Divine Mother stands before the very eyes of the devotee . She wants to offer some of the attributes to the devotee. The devotee on his part does not want any . He bows down simply to the Divine Mother, takes the dust of her feet, places it on his head and says. “Oh Mother, may I be blessed with love of God only”! The Mother becomes highly please.

Love of God is the fixed star and it cannot be defined. To obtain the manikin form of God in one’s body is the highest realization of God’s love in a man.

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109).                   “The sky looks blue at a distance, but look at it nearby---there is

                             no color.The water of ocean looks blue at a distance , But go

                             close by, take it in your palm and see,---there is no color “.

It is spoken of God without form and attributes . In Ascent when ego consciousness is gone, nobody knows what remains . If the man is blessed enough to come back in Descent with Divine Consciousness then he knows only “Yes” (Asti) so far and nothing else .

                                                  

110).                      “He is the master both of bondage and liberation”.

If God through His grace frees Himself from the body then there is liberation , and if He does not so then it is bondage .

“I” or “ego”----is bondage .

Liberation lies in solving the problem of “I” or “ego”. The skin of an onion is peeled off one after another, then in the end there remains no skin . This is liberation . Here in the simile, onion represents ‘I’. There are two other stages where the bliss of liberation is seen and felt, and they are all in attributive conditions . (1)  The first stage is that—God is liberated from the body and collected and shown by God-the-Preceptor as “Atma” in the seventh plane . (ii) The second stage is when the sense springs up that ‘I am not body but I am God”!

111).                   “God out of a hundred thousand, gets Himself liberated in one “.

The blessed man in whose body God liberates in full measure, manifests and expresses His various sportive forms is a liberated one . He is freed from the bondage of body. The primal idea of a man is that he is body with all the senses and other attributes and corelated functions . When Atma is shown and seen, he comes to know that he is Atma and the question of body does not arise at all . The final stage of liberation is to get oneself freed from the ego-consciousness . Here ends Ascent and if it is followed by Descent then the man does not find “I” in him but there reigns the divine consciousness “Thou”.

112).                         “It  is  His  will”.

                                                      

His will is expressed in two ways, that is, either by keeping in bondage or by freeing Himself in the body, though it may be one in one hundred thousand.

 113).                         “Solid and liquid  by  parts”.

 It is the measure of God liberating from the body . The liquid denotes the liberation of God and solid is that portion from where God is not freed . Liquid God is seen in the second sheath in the abdomen of the right side---‘Pranamaya Kosha’.

114).                        “I am  burnt  up  through  excess”.

God emanated in full measure from the body of Thakur 

So ‘I’ in Thakur is burnt up . It is seen . It flares up like red light (Chaitanya) in the cerebrum .

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115).              “Mind  keeps  one  in  bondage .  Again,  mind  sets  one  free”.

A purified mind cannot think that it is in bondage . Until and unless a man sees God in his body, he cannot get his mind purified . To see God is the measure of purification and the sight of God in the body purifies everything concerning body . The evaporation of animal passion from the body is the practical shape of purification . It is visible in one’s body. As soon as any word concerning animal passion will be spoken by the man, a shudder starting from the lower part of the body will be seen to come over the body and the shudder will be seen to rise upwards in the cerebrum of the seventh plane.

116).                       “The  mind  is  all  in  all”.

The mind of Shri Radha (the heroine of Shri Bhagavat—a holy epic) was transformed into the image of Shri Krishna (the hero) . So on whatever side she was casting her sight, her eyes met with the image of Shri Krishna .                     

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98).                       “In  one  tank”.

Tank—is the seventh plane in the cerebrum and it is seen . The first class realization is to see the thing as it is. The laying cover of the cerebrum folds up and the seventh plane is seen. “The drop-scene in a theatre is withdrawn”---Shri Ramkrishna.

The second class realization is by a symbol . A tank of God’s light is seen.

There is a third class realization and it is also by a symbol. A tank of water is seen . Further the seventh plane is represented by flowers, such as—full-bloomed lotus or big roses.

99).                “He is addressed by same as “Allah,” by some as

                                “God”  and  by  some  as  “Brahma”.

Here the absolute is meant “Allah”, “God” and  “Brahma”. These are the different terminology of the same and one Absolute .

100).              “Some  say  ‘Kali’  and  some  others  say  ‘Rama’

                                       ‘Hari’  ‘Jesus’  and  ‘Durga’.

(Kali, Rama, Hari, Durga and the different forms and attributes as depicted in the Hindu mythology. Jesus is the saviour in Christianity).

It is Relative Truth. In the fourth sheath or the sixth plane in the process of transformation, God is seen in various forms. Some see it in one form only and some in different forms. When at first this form is seen, it is understood as if this is come from outside. But after losing one’s ego-consciousness, when a man comes back in divine consciousness, it is shown to him that all the forms of God he saw in the process of Ascent did come out from his own body.

101).                “Mahakali”---is  the  Absolute”.

102) .               “Nitya  Kali”---is the sound. It is perpetual and there is no break in its course . It is heard. From sound comes ‘Form’. It is called sportive form .

103).                 “Raksha  Kali”---is the protectoress  of the sportive forms . On the surface the sportive form is protected by continuous creation .

104).                 “Shyama  Kali”---is the preserver and benefactress .

105) .                “Smashan  Kali”---is deluge, destruction and annihilation .

These five forms are but different aspects of God, the Absolute, and the Relative . The first of the two forms are your parents . They existed before your birth . You come out of their physical bodies . The three other forms are but your human body .  The simultaneous operations of growth, preservation and destruction are on their march in it .

106).               “After the annihilation  of the Universe when a great-cycle ends,

                         the Divine Mother collects and stores the seeds of Creation . As

                         if she is the elderly mistress of the house with a hotch-potch pot

                         to keep in store all different species of articles “.

This is the third realizations in the course when the embodied soul unfolds ; the great Universe is transformed onto seed .

107).                “After creation, the Primal Force pervades the Universe itself .

                          The Universe is brought forth and it is pervaded”.

The Universe is in God as seen in the seventh plane and again God pervades the Universe. Each and every form as seen in the Universe is but a different aspect of God.

108).               “Is Kali ( the Divine Mother is so addressed ) of black complexion ?

                         The distance makes her look black . If one comes to know her then

                         She is no more black”.

At the first stage of meditation utter darkness is seen. But as meditation proceeds and the planes in the body are opened, various realizations come in view. “A man marching in the path of meditation first sees the form of goodness with ten hands and in great grandeur ; then he sees god with four hands ; then with two hands, then in the form of a body and lastly he sees God’s light”—Shri Ramkrishna .  

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93).                      “Let  you realize in thousand folds, but till you are transformed

                              into God (Samadhi) you are not out of bound of the Jurisdiction

                                                         of power (Sakti)”.

The translation of the saying contains its own explanation as it has been so rendered.

         

94).                   “I am in meditation, I am thinking God.—all these are but within the

                           Jurisdiction of life-power and they are attributive forms of life-power”.

Even at the vanishing point of ego-consciousness leaves what remains or not, nothing can be said as there is none to speak out .

95).                  “So  the Supreme Self (Brahma) and life-power are, though identical, but expressions of different aspects”.

“The Supreme Self is the life-power”---Shri Ramkrishna .

God without attributes and forms becoming God with attributes and forms . It is Descent as seen in the body. It is the manifestation of God in Descent in various stages, or in other words, it is the display of God as Avatar in the body.

“Avatar displays with the aid of life-power”—Shri Ramkrishna .

(i)    Knowledge of the Supreme Self (Brehmagyan)—no-ego-consciousness, and it is in connection with the life-power transforming into Supreme Self (Ascent—Agam). This Ascent ends here .

Then Descent follows .

(ii).    Knowledge of “Thou”—“I—am—not—but—Thou.”

(iii).   This :Thou” takes the form of a very ancient ‘Rishi’.(The ancient man of the Vedas), appears and says, “The Divine consciousness is coming down very soon in the form of Avatar 

          (Incarnation of God)”.

(iv)    Then the Divine Consciousness is seen. It flares up in a red light in the middle of the seventh  plane . It is called ‘seeing of consciousness’ (Chaitanya Sakshatkar).

“Like a brilliant red light emitting from the stick of a Chinese red-light match box”—Shri Ramkrishna .

(v)      Then the light—not—red—comes down from the seventh plane to the neck . It is self- evident that the light is descending ,

(vi).    Then this very lights seen to come down from the seventh plane to the waist up to the organ of  evacuation. Now this descent is clearer than the first one.

(vii),   This light again takes the manikin form of “Avatar”, or Incarnation of God . He sings the glory of God by clasping his hands . All these displays do not take place in a single day, but it takes time .

96)                 “One cannot conceive the Absolute without the Relative

                        Or the Relative without the Absolute “

All the sportive forms of God are but displays and manifestations of the Absolute . Again, the Absolute manifests Himself of these endless sportive forms. This link between the Absolute and the Relative and vice versa is inseparable, contiguous and eternal.

97).                “Life-power is the Supreme Self and the Self is the life-power “.

  (a)    ‘Life-power is the Supreme Self-‘is Ascent (Agam). Life-power is transforming into God and becomes God—in the first stage with forms and attributes and finally without forms and unqualified .

 (b)     ‘The Supreme Self is the life-power’—It is Descent (Nigam).

It springs up from the no-ego-consciousness and finally takes the from of the manikin or Manus-Ratan, i.e., Avatar.

The problem of the body is still unsolved. This Physical body is but a form of God, the Absolute. “The staircase and the roof are made of the same materials. The seminal fluid is so soft but how stiff and hard flesh and bones are made out of it. Everything is possible in God as it so transpires and is seen”—Shri Ramkrishna.

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85).                      “The  yogi  tries  to  see  the  Supreme  Soul . His end  is  to  get

                                the  embodies  soul  converted  into  the  Supreme  Soul “.

The embodied soul is transformed into the Supreme Soul, this is called the Great Transformation (Mahayoga). This Great Transformation comes after the unfoldment  of the embodied soul into—

(1)    The Universe is in God.

(2)    It is transformed into a seed.

(3)    The seed is changed into a dream.

(4)    The dream vanishes and nothing remains.

Though the Ascent stops here, in some cases the consciousness comes down and again it goes up when the Supreme Soul is seen.

86) .                            “The yogi  withdraws  his  mind  from  the  body  and

                                      tries  to  have  it  transformed  into  the  Supreme  Soul”.

The life-power of yogi is transformed into the Supreme Soul and he is seeing the Supreme Soul. This is realization is taking place from within the Supreme Soul. But yet there is consciousness. To extinct this consciousness is the ideal of a yogi but it never takes place in this stage . To see the Supreme Soul is but a realization and as such it cannot bring about a thorough elimination (Sthita Samadhi).

87).                 “At the first stage of spiritual discipline a yogi retires in solitude and keeps Himself confined in a fixed place and then practices meditation with undivided

attention”.

The yogi, or the man of knowledge, or a devotee—all these people have got to get their mind withdrawn from the world and get it confined and concentrated in the seventh plane to see the various sportive forms of God . This is the only way and it is so eternally.

                   

88).                “The man of knowledge with non-dualistic realizations of Vedanta says

                        that the act of creation, preservation and destruction, and the Universe

                        and all its living beings are but illusory sports of the Divine power”.

“Non-dualistic realizations of Vedanta—“is the unfoldment of the embodied soul as seen in the seventh plane in four parts, viz., (1)  The universe in Atma or God,  (2)  Seed,  (3)  Dream,  (4)  Elimination of ego-consciousness.

Preservation—is the Universe with all living beings in Atma.

Destruction—in the first stage is a seed, in the second stage is but a dream and then elimination follows.

These realizations are but stage or staircase leading up-wards in the process of  transformation of the life-power into the elimination of ego-consciousness (Stitha-Samadhi).

89).                 “Upward  realizations  reveal  that  all these

                         realizations  are  but  illusory  like  a  dream”.         

Realizations are relative truths and as such they appear as illusory as dream in comparison with the fundamental Truth or Absolute.

90).                 “Brahma  is  real”.

It is so revealed in four stages. They are;--

(1)    Atma  or  God ;

(2)    Jara  Samadhi—to get the life-power transformed into Euclid’s point ;

(3)    Elimination of ego-consciousness;  and

(4)    to come back in the Descent with the knowledge of positiveness,

91).                  “All  else  is  unsubstantial”.

They do not exist at all .

92)                    “The life-power  is in  dream  and  not  in  existence”.

The ultimate transformation of life-power assumes the form of a dream and at the end there remains cannot be side.

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81).              “The  same  man  when  he  worships  in  a  temple  is  called

                     a  priest  and  when  he  prepares  a  meal  is  a  cook”.  

 There is but one God. He at first appears as life-power in the body, and finally transforms into Supreme Bliss. These are all but various aspects of God with forms, and nothing can be said of God without any form .

 82) .             “The  man  of  knowledge  (Jnani) sticks  to  the  path  of  Knowledge

                      and  as  he  proceeds  he  reasons—“not this, not  this”1  Brahma  is

                      neither  this, nor  that,  not these living  beings,  nor  this  Universe,

                      Elimination  succeeds  elimination  and  then  mind  is  transformed

                      into  a  point  (a  zero)  and  then  comes  “Sthitha  Samadhi”.  The

                      Brahmajnani  knows  it for  certain  that  God it  real  and  the      

                      Universe  is  unreal—not  in  existence . Like  dream, all  these

                      Names  and  forms  are  illusory . It  cannot  be  said  that  God  is  a

                      Person . All men  of  knowledge,  known  as  Vedantists, say  like  this”.

Who are vedantists ?

The Vedantisis are those who see and realise God in these five aspects in the seventh plane .

They   are---

(1)     Atma ;

(2)     Atma holding the Universe within Him ;

(3)     This Vast Universe is transforming into a seed ;

(4)     The seed is transformed into a dream ; and,

(5)     The dream in its turn evaporates and what remains,

          nobody knows .

83)    “To a devotee every state of life is real . The waking  state is a reality to them .

           The world to them is not a dream . They say that the Universe is His attributive

           power. All this are His parts and parcels as eternally He is expressing Himself

           in the form of sky, stars, moon, sun, mountains, oceans, men, animals, They                are but His inseparable glory . He is within us well as in and spreading over all              our consciousness . Again He is in the outside all over the world . The                            devotees who are blessed with the realizations of descent, say that the twenty                four cosmic principles and Universe are all but manifestations of His own self .            The devotees crave to eat sugar, but they do not want to get themselves                        transformed into sugar”.

 Who is a devotee ?

 He who has seen the manikin form of God (Manus Ratan) within his own body and has heard him to sing the glory of God by clasping his hands is a devotee .

A devotee accepts all the forms of transformations as they spring up in the process from the waking of the life-power assumes the form of Manus Ratan . These transformations are but realizations solving the problem of life and death, the woeld and God, and all questions which may rise in a man . “Knowledge is like a gentlemen who goes and stops in the outer house, but devotion is like a lady and enters in the zenana—“Sri Ramkrishna .

84)      “Do you know how a lover of God nurtures his love to God ?

                        He says, “O God! Thou art the Master and I am Thy servant .

                        Thou art the Mother and I am Thy child”. Or again “Thou art

                        both my Father and Mother . Thou art the Full and I am a part”.

                        He does not like to say, “I am Brahma”.

After attaining the manikin form of God in the body, the lover of God ties himself in a relationship with God and tastes the sweetness of love to God through the body and all over the body.

This relationship has got five forms. They are:--

(1)    Relationship of quietness—transforming into God but not in toto. God is quietness. The only existence of the devotee is left to enjoy the sweetness of quietness, the God . This quietness is felt in two ways. It is felt in a concentrated form as spoken of by Thakur—“a fish kept confined in a jar has been set free in an ocean”. And again, it is felt all over the body.

(2)    Relationship of servant and master. The best example is the life of Shri Hanumana as depicted in the Ramayana—an epic.

(3)    Relationship which springs up between two best friends . The best example is cited in the life of Sreedanma, Sudama. In the Bhagavat .                  

(4)    The love of mother and her child as between Sri Krishna and Yashoda, or Thakur and Ramlala .

(5)    The love of a lady to her lover as between Shri Radha and Shri Krishna .

There are some specially favored people who get the bliss of these five kinds of relationship with God .

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77)                     “Mother why have you brought me here in the midst

                            of these people ? Shall I be able to save them by liberating

                            God from their body as He is hedged around by their body?”

 Hedge—signifies body made of flesh and bones. Thakur means to say that did God take pity on them He would have freed Himself from the body and showed Himself by manifestation in them and would have killed all their dissatisfaction with Supreme Bliss. He did not do so as otherwise these men would not have come to him. Yet it is good that these men have got an opportunity to come in contact with him. It may help them to kindle their lamps within.

 78)                  “The  pillow  and  the  pillow  case”.

 The pillow—represents life-power and her transformation into God and pillow case—represents body.

When the life-power emanates and is finally transformed into God, the body remains like a pillow case. This condition of the body has been stated by Thakur as dried-up cocoanut or betel nut in a shell . God has separated Himself from the body . The life-power rises towards the cerebrum. (The neck like a pendulum keeps on moving from right to left . In its moving it makes  sound like a cocoanut or betel nut in a shell ). It is seen and heard. This is called Brahma Vidya—the cult of transforming the life-power into tangible God in the body in different sportive forms and in different stages . The inward transformations taking place within make their expressions over the body and they are distinctly visible. They were so seen over the bodies of Shri Chaitanya and Thakur in the state of Bhava(half-transformation of life-power into God)and Samadhi (complete transformation of the life-power into God).

This Brahma Vidya, Supreme Culture, has got its own peculiar aspect. If the man who has attained this supreme cult is asked—‘Sri, dies God separate from the body?”—before he answers, the expression of movement of the neck will be seen over the body accompanied with the sound of a dried betel nut in a shell. It is evinced that the body is but a pillow case.

79).     “The seventh  plane  of  the  devotee  where God  has  manifested  in  full

              measure  is  His  particular  drawing  room”.

This ‘drawing-room’ of God is revealed in a different way in two different planes—

(1)   In the fourth plane :  and

(2)   In the seventh plane.

(1)   In the fourth plane it is seen that the whole outer world is besmeared with God’s light  It was so seen by Thakur in the temple of Divine Mother . On whichever side he was casting his eyes, he saw God’s light pervading all the articles—the door-steps, the door, the walls, the pots before him and the image of the Divine Mother . If this God’s light is not seen in the outer world pervading everything which comes within sight then God’s light cannot be seen within the body.

(2)   In the seventh plane God is seen and the God there in the cerebrum holds the whole Universe in God (Viswarup—lit; universal aspect of God). It is the first step of special knowledge of God and also elimination of the mystery surrounding me in connection with ego, God and the world. Thakur very adroitly expressed it by two letters only . They are “Ma” (Maw) and “Ra” (Raa). “Ma” means God and “Ra” means Universe. God first and then comes the world. Where is God seen? He is seen in the seventh plane. What is God? He who holds the universe in Him is God . All this are showed and seen. God has got innumerable houses all over the world. The drawing room is that where He has manifested His particular mode Viswarup . Other innumerable houses all over the world belong to Him, and He is also there, but only the manifestation and realization vary . In the drawing room He is manifested and in other houses He is in an unmanifested condition . The devotee is fully aware that God has manifested in him but it does not stop there . It gives publicity. God out of grace to some men makes them known that “I am in this particular devotee”. It does not happen in very case. Bharadwaja and other eleven Rishis(saints) came to know that Rama was an Avatar—incarnation of God .He is called Avatar in whom God manifested in full measure . In the rest of the world He is but unseen and invisible . God in full measure is collected and seen only in Avatar. But it does not happen in case of every Avatar as there are some in whom God with forms appears and descends . There is but one God, and where He has manifested He is there and there only and nowhere else, and this is His particular drawing room in the era.

80).                     “The  Jnanis  call  Him—Brahma,  the  Yogis  call  Him             

.                                    Atma,  and  the  Bhakts  call  Him—Bhagwan”

 Jnanis (man of knowledge) are those who have attained the knowledge that they do not exist . Only God exists . It is the process of elimination and at its end the ego is eliminated and then what remains cannot be said . It is the summum bonum condition in the process of Ascent. ‘Jnanis’ God is without any form, i.e, an unqualified one . Jnanis do not get all the sportive forms God in the process of transformation of life-power  into God as planes do not unfold .Yogis are those in whose body the process of  transformation takes place and it is seen. They call God ‘Atma’ as He has grown out of the body and in the body . Atma means that which grows out of self in the form of light . Bhaktas are those whose God holds the Universe within Him . It is special knowledge of God and this is the first phase of attaining the stage of a Bhakta . The final stage of a “Bhakta” is to get the yogis, ‘Bhagwan’ of the devotees, and  ‘Brahma’ of the men of knowledge are but one God in the body in the way of Ascent in three different stages .

Atma is seen in the seventh plane in the first stage. God-the-Preceptor shows Atma and He flattens in the end like a bunch of paddy.

Bhagwan is that condition of God when nothing can be spoken of Him.