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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 )

291)     “This  path  of  devotion  is  the  easiest  one”.

True devotion is brought by a man long with his birth as a heritage . Its spontaneity manifests itself.

292)     “It  is  an  ‘ego’  of  a  child”

It is ‘I’ in the state of Paramhansa. It comes after liberation and it speaks only the glory of ‘Thou’.

293)     “Yes, ‘servant—I’, or ‘I am a servant to God’ ‘I am a devotee---this type of egoism;

              and  it not  faulty; on  the  contrary,  it  aids  one  to  attain  God  in  him.”

It is ‘I’ in the course of transformation of life—power. It is creating devotion and love of God in one’s body. It is not ‘I’ in the liberated state or ‘I’ to speak the glory of ‘thou’.

294)     “If  after  attainment  of  God  there  remains  a  ‘servant—I’, or a  devotee—I’,

               then  that  ‘I’,  cannot  do  the  least  injury  to  others”.

This ‘I’ does not contain the least animality in him. It is a vidine ‘I’ and it is only to witness God’s sportive forms and to speak out the joy and beatitudeness of their display.

295)     “A  touch  of  the  philosopher’s  stone  changes  an  iron

              sword  into  a  golden  one  and  it cannot  injure  others”.         

Firstly, it needs to be merged in no-ego-consciousness and to come down in Descent in the knowledge of ‘thou’ and also in the display of incarnation of God. Then there remains not a single iota of animality in the body. It becomes a holy receptacle for expressions and manifestations of God as seen in the photograph of Thakur in standing posture being transformed into God (Samadhi). It is called turning of the iron sword into a golden one.

296)    “A  boy  is  not  fastened  to either  of  these  three  qualities :

          (1)  Sattva—Goodness; (2)  Rajas—activity   and  (3)  Tamas—inertia”

297)     “A  child has got no  caste  distinction,  nor  hatred,  nor

              Sense of  purity  or  impurity  in  anything”.

In Paramhansa state, the eight knots located in the waist are cut asunder. It is so seen to happen within the body. If you attain Paramhansa state, your God-the-preceptor will come to you but with some defect in his  body and give you a very sharp weapon. With that weapon you cut asunder the eight knots of nerves (Astapash) in the waist. At the time you feel a physical sensation in your waist as well as in the cerebrum and it is clearly and distinctly understood that some changes are taking place in the brain.

298) “There are some who after being transformed into God,

Keep the                                keep the ‘devotee-1’  or  ‘servant-1 and live thereon”

 It is Descent.

299)            “Even  after  attainment  of  God,  there  remains

                        but  a  meager  tinge  of  ‘I’        

This is that ‘I’ who sees the display and ecstatic sports of manikin form (Manus Ratan) of God in him known as Avatar or incarnation of God.

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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 )

281)     “For  a  bit  of  fleecy  cloud  the  sun  is  not  visible”

It is the entrance to the seventh plane when a thin silken curtain is seen hanging and sun is shining behind it,

282)     “The  cloud  is  removed  and  the  sun  is  seen”

The thin silken curtain is removed and God is shown by God-the-Preceptor in the seventh plane.

283)     “If  by  the  grace  of  God-the-Preceptor,

              ego  vanishes  then  a  man  sees  God”

The consciousness that ‘I-am-He’ springs up in a man and he sees that God and the Universe is within God. All these happen within him and his vision is confined within. Again, when he opens his eyes, he finds the Universe before him and it transpires that God-the-Universe within and outside are but identical.

284)     “God  is  nearest  of  all  to  us”.

God is within a man and he carries God within himself.

285)     “Each  additional  attribute  of  ego

              Tightens  the  bondage  of  a  man”

More the worldly senses grow, more the man is distracted from the path of God.

286)     :A frog  had  some  money  in  his  hole. One  day  an  elephant  walked  over  the  hole,

The  frog  in a  fit  of  anger  came  out, uplifted  its  foot  and  showed  a kick  to  the     elephant”

Wealth is another factor keeping a man in separation from God. Sometimes elephant, i.e., white elephant i.e, mind hankers after God, but the weight of wealth arrests its upward course.

287)     “The  light  is  seen  within  a lantern  but  it  cannot  be  touched”.

It is in the sixth plane that a lantern, with a light within, it seen.

288)     “This  ‘ego’ standing  between  man  and  God  keeps  them  in  separation”.

A tripartite distinction has been drawn here between man, ego and God. It is simply to make the thing clear. They are but three aspects of the very same thing. When the ego dies, a man is transformed into God. “The Primal force and the Supreme Self are identical.”---Shri Ramkrishna.

289)     “It  is  only  one  or  two  who, by  getting  themselves

             transformed  into  God,  can  get  rid  of  ego”.  

It is only one man in an era. Thakur was the sole man in his era.

290)     “If  ego  is  adamant  and  not  disposed  to  leave  you  at  all,  all  right

              let  the  rascal  remain  as  a  servant  to  God”.

This is ego of the sixth plane. It is here that God with form is first seen and a devotee surrenders himself to his deity.

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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 )

276)     “A  man’s  ego  vanishes  with  three  signs”.

As per Tantra it needs but three stages of realizations and a man’s ego disappears and disappears for good. They are:

(i)    To  see  God  with  form.

(ii)    To  witness  the  sportive  forms  of  in  the  seventh  plane.

(iii)    Lastly  to  merge  into  the  Great  Cause.

As per  Vedas,  three  signs  are :---

(i)  Knowledge, (ii)  Knowable,  (iii)  Knower. [Jana-Jyayo-Jnata - the Triputi (Three  in  one) condition]

God-the-Preceptor is Knowledge in person; God is the Knowable Object (Ishwar  Bastu  Lit; God—the Object); and Knower is consciousness. It comprises and comprehends seeing of God in the seventh plane as showed by God-the-Preceptor.

277)     “A  man  without  God’s  commandment  cannot  get 

             God  freed  from  the  body  of  his  disciples.”

A man can never play the role of a preceptor---Shri Ramkrishna.

If a man accepts any other man as a preceptor then that man will never be liberated from the bondage of body. The man who was got God’s commandment will appear as God-the-Preceptor within the body of a true devotee and teaches him all the processes of transformation of the life-power into the Supreme Bliss—the whole course of Rajayoga.

278)     “This  human  body  and  the  egousm  in  the  are

               but  the  causes  of  bondage (Maya)”.

A man thinks himself that he is this body of flesh and blood and the egoism in him leads him to the wrong course of asserting his superiority. Maya, literally, is illusion. It is the sense the Vedantists ascribe to her. But the whole episode of the mystery of Maya is solved in the Descent in the incarnation of God (Avatarbad). But Vedanta has no Descent or the incarnation of God in it. She is identified with a woman. This Maya has got for stages. They are ‘---

(i)    She exists.

(ii)   She exists and does not exist both at the same time.

(iii)  She is not in existence.

(iv) She is not in existence but also exists.

(i)   She exists---She is real in her Universal aspect.

(ii)   She exists and does not exist both at the same time---The continuous changes in the process of the transformation of life-power as seen with all her various aspects on her way till the evaporates.

(iii)   She is not in existence---It is but extinction of the sense of egoism.

(iv) She is not in existence but also exists---‘I am not but Thou’ “Thou art the Master. Thou art the Lord”. But there is a tinge of ego simply to speak out the glory of “Thou”. It is real love of God (Paka Bhakti) in the Descent.

Maya, in short, is but another aspect of God in which His various sportive forms get their manifestation and display. It is Maya which induces one to thank about God and ultimately she transforms herself into God, thus revealing her own true self as God with attributes, without attributes, and also in Descent as incarnation of God or Avatar.

279)    “This egoism  has  kept  everything  latent”.

It does not permit the true Self to get expressions in the form of reality. “When there is one false master (i.e.,ego) in the store, the real master does not come”.---Shri Ramkrishna.

280)    “Every  trouble  ends  when  ‘ego’ dies”.

It is to be merged in the Great Cause ( Sthita Samadhi). Descent is an extraordinary case and it seldom happens. It only happens to them who are specially marked for it by God.    

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 (Henceforth  Shri  Ramkrishna  will be  spoken  of  as

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

270)     “He  alone  can  free  a  man  from  the  charm  of  illusion  (Maya)  as  it  is

              His  enchanting  illusion  which  has  kept  the  whole  Universe  enchanted

              with  the  most  charming  enchantment”.

Charming enchantment—is the unman body—the ego. This body turns in the fourth sheath as causal body. The causal body in its turn changes and appears as God with form. Then follows God without form. The Universe is seen within God without form. Then God turns into a seed. The seed appears as a dream. The dream vanishes and there remains no-ego-consciousness. Then flashes ‘I-am-not-but-Thou’. This state is liberation in life (Jibanmukti). Then starts the knowledge of ‘Thou’. God in the body shows his various sportive forms and these are but various conditions and stages of “I”. The “Thou” is changed into “I”.

271)     “A man’s real  religious  life  starts  after  attainment

              Of  God-the-Preceptor  in  his  body”

 At the outset God-the-Preceptor ushers in the body in the process of Descent (Nigam) and stops in the fourth sheath as causal body. Life-power in embryo at first gets awakened in the body of God-the-Preceptor. Without the body of God-the-Preceptor, life-power never awakes, nor she can have an upward motion.

272)     “They who  have  not  attained  God  in  them”

The attainment of God is firstly to see God in the seventh plane as shown by God-the-Preceptor and then to have the life-power transformed into Supreme Bliss.

273)     “They who  have  not  received  God’s  commandment”

The man who has received God’s commandment will appear as God-the-Preceptor to a real devotee. The devotee must have no previous knowledge of his God-the-Preceptor. The form of God-the-Preceptor is a real teacher; or in other words, it is God in human form.

“If you see me in dream to give you religious instructions then let you know that it is God speaking in human form”---Shri Ramkrishna. It is but a lower standard of God’s manifestation in the body as it has sprung up though coming in contact.

274)     “The man  who  has  not  strengthened  himself with  God’s  power”

The man must have the manikin form of God (Manus Ratan) in him, otherwise real power of God does not come in a man.

275)     “If  he  is  a  real  good  teacher”

It means God-the-Preceptor. God alone is good. It means Sat(Being) i.e., Asti(Reality). This Reality appears within the human form of God-the-Preceptor. It is the appearance of the invisible God without form in the body with form. In the words of the Vedas it is marking you as His special own.

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 (Henceforth  Shri  Ramkrishna  will be  spoken  of  as

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

264)     “After  attainment  of  God  a  devotee  verily  sees  that  a  woman  is

             but  part  and  parcel  of  the  divine  Mother,  or  calls  the  woman  as

              mother  and  worships  her  as  Divine  Mother”

Thakur himself worshipped his wife (Sadoshi Puja) but it was possible for Thakur only. It is better not to undergo the adventure.

It is fact that every woman is but a prototype of the Divine Mother. They should be so worshipped, but it is better to do so from a distance.

“When I see that some woman keep on sitting in my room and are not showing the least intention to go away, I myself get up and go outside”.

                                                                                                                                  ---Shri Ramkrishna.

265)     “Let  you  come  every  now  and  then, as                                                                    

              I  like  to  get  you  in  my  company  very  much”.

 God always wants a real devotee as there will be a talk about God’s display in the body. Without a real devotee this talk about God’s sportive forms does not come out spontaneously. God does not collect and manifest elsewhere save and except in the body of a real devotee.

266)     “Without  commandment  from  Him  in  Person,

             God  in  others  cannot  be  awakened”.

The man who gets commandment, also gets the power to awaken God in others.

“The Divine Mother showed me that I have many devotees”---Shri Ramkrishna. Even after such commandment, there is a certain class of devotees who keep silence over the matter. No devotee, however, unwilling he may be to play the role of a teacher, is a match to God. God chalks out His own way. He, in the form of the recipient of commandments, i.e., God-the-Preceptor, appears in some real devotees---unknowingly being ready, awaiting the advent of God-the-Preceptor and asks him to go to the teacher. Here the form of the teacher, a living man, and God-the-preceptor are identical.

This devotee who gets the teacher as God-the-Preceptor had no real knowledge of the teacher, may, the teacher is an unknown man to him. Thakur out of his grace has revealed this new method to us.

267)     “God  the  human  form  appears  and  hands  down written

              document  containing  God’s  commandment”.

God-the-bliss, assumes the human form of a very nearest and dearest elderly superior man, such as, father. appears, writes the commandment and shows it to the recipient of the commandment.

There is another class of commandment. God in the body speaks. It is called God’s voice. It is heard distinctly. The voice carries so much solemnity that the recipient understands that he will be compelled to carry out of the order.

268)     “A  man  cannot  discharge  the  hard  duty  of  a teacher  until  and

             unless  he  receives  God’s  power  from  God  in  person”

A man plays the role of a teacher only when God in Descent takes the manikin form (Manus Ratan) in him, otherwise not. In this stage it is seen that God is the doer and author of everything from within. “Divine Mother! Am I talking, or you are speaking out from within through me?’---Shri Ramkrishna, God’s voice must be made human to be understood by human beings.

269)     “It  does  not  lie  in  the  power  of  human  being  to  get  God  released

              from  the  bondage  of  the  body  another  human  being”

 If God out of grace frees Himself from the body then there is liberation”.---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 )

255)     “Till   the  channel  meets  the  river”

Till life-power reaches the cerebrum.    

256)     “Daughter  and  wife”                  

These two forms of womanhood are the greatest bondage and fetters to a man. Wife is but an ephemeral charmer and a daughter is the image of softness and sweetness, i.e., good qualities. Both of them are fetters, one is absorptive and the other is distractive.

257)     “The  peasant  held  a  chase,  spade  in hand and scared 

              away  both  wife  and  daughter”

The man broke the bondage of woman. He freed himself from the fetters of charming illusion (Maya) around a man.

258)     “The channel  was  connected  with  the river”.

The life-power in the man reached the cerebrum or the seventh plane.

259)     “Then  the  peasant  took  his  bath  and  meal”

Then the man realized various sportive forms of God.

 260)     “At  last  the  peasant  slept”

The man attained no-ego state—the last phase of transformation of life-power when there is no-ego-consciousness. It is called Sthitha Samadhi or merging into the Great Cause.

261)     “The  woman  and  Gold keep  God  tied  up  in  the

              body and  do  not  permit  God’s  liberation”.

Woman and Gold must be shunned in case of a man, and in case of woman, she must be shunning the company of man and gold.

“A man will be he-eunuch and a woman will be she-eunuch; then there will be liberation of God from the body”. 

                                                                                                                             ---Shri  Ramkrishna.

It does not mean physical but it is to embrace voluntary renunciation. 

You must be earning your livelihood but it must be an honest earning and it will not be allowed to exceed your bare requirements. So far gold is permitted to be earned, as otherwise you have got to depend on others and that is also an impediment,

The man who is blessed with spontaneous liberation of God from the body is not required to exert himself for abstaining from “woman and gold”.

“The father has got his child on his shoulder and there is no fear for the child to have a fall”.

                                                                                                                        ---Sri Ramkrishna.

The man who is blessed with the protection of God will keep himself aloof from the company of woman and he will never accept any gift of money from others. These two phenomena will be distinctly marked in the usual course of his everyday life.

262)     “When  a  woman  accompanies  a  man,

              he  is  doomed  to  lose  his  spiritual  power”

The human body is so constituted that man and woman in close contact with each other acts and reacts over each other’s body. It holds up the progress of transformation of life-power; nay, not only this, but it lulls the life-power into sleep. If life-power gets asleep there it will sleep for good and then there will be no upward course for it.

It was the garden-house in Cossipore—a suburb of Calcutta. Here Thakur was taken for treatment at the last phase of his illness. A young man of some twenty years age was brought by his relatives near Thakur for pointing out what happened to the young man as he appeared to be in a high beatitude state. Thakur saw the young man and told his relatives that all on a sudden a high spiritual life (Madhura Bhava) flared up in this young man, and would be better if they would leaves this young man with him (Thakur) there, as otherwise in their house he would be coming in contact with woman and would lose his spiritual life. The relatives of the young man did not obey Thakur. They took the young man away. A disciple (afterwards Swami Saradananda) of Thakur was present at the time. Sometimes after Thakur’s passing away from the world he remembered the incident and went to enquire about the young man in the latter’s place and so taste the truth of the forecast made by Thakur. To this utter surprise Swami Saradananda found that the young man, as a matter of fact, came in contact with some woman and lost his spiritual life as well as his beatitude state.

263)     “Then  there  remains  no  attachments  of  woman  in  a  devotee”.

The devotee has attained God in him, i.e., in his own body. His inward physical condition is changed. It changes. The life-power jumps upto the cerebrum, dances there and softens it and is ultimately transformed into God. This happening causes lust (Kama) to get evaporated from the brain as well as from the body. Not only this, along with the attainment of God in the body, the angle of vision is also changed. “A woman to me appears like a tigress,”---Shri Ramkrishna. (This happens with a devotee at the time of observing religious discipline).

“A woman is but a small magnet to God—the bigger magnet”---Shri Ramkrishna, God, the bigger magnet, draws and protects the devotee and the attraction of a woman fails. In other words, the attraction of God in the cerebrum is very superior. It comes spontaneously with those who attain God in their body.

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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 )

249)     “Though  an  ordinary  man  is  a  victim  to  the  innumerable  troubles

              and  miseries  of  the  world,  yet  the  better  sense  in  him  does  not  wake  up”

God does not emanate from the body of such a callous man.

250)     “A  hog  plum  has  but  stone  and skin  and  hardly  any  pulp”

There are some men in whose body God does not emanate and they never taste the sweetness and beatification of God’s emanation and disembodiment of Atma from the body. There body is but a burden of flesh and bones.

251)     “The  worm  that  grows  in  filth  is  quite  cosy  and  happy  there;  but  if  it  is

              removed  and  kept  in  a  pot  of  pudding,  it  dies”

It is exactly the case with some men who cannot bear the company of holy and pious men. They leave the place at once if God’s glory is spoken of.

The yogic form of the metaphor runs thus  :----

Worm grows in filth---An ordinary man’s mind is in the lower part of the body i.e.,  (a)  organ of evacuation, (b)  organ of generation, and  (c)  navel.

Pot  of  pudding---the seventh plane.

It  dies---An ordinary man (Jivakati) if reaches the cerebrum then he will die as he won’t be able to come down again. The best example is the death of young Avimanyu as depicted in the great epic Mahabharata.

252)     “It  is  only  God’s  grace  which  creates  a  keen  renunciation  in  a  man”

There are two kinds of renunciation. One is attained by self-exertion such as by spiritual discipline, fasting, keeping oneself confined to a monastery or in a solitary cave of mountain, etc,; and the other is spontaneous. Even in a case of self-exertion there is God’s grace, as otherwise such thoughts and action would not have occurred and come. But in a case where spontaneous renunciation comes, it is different. This spontaneous renunciation comes of them who have got spontaneous emanation in their body. The more the emanation of God in the body takes place the more renunciation is expressed in the outer world. The maximum manifestations of renunciation were expressed and also seen in the body of Thakur so far they could be had in the record of the world. If a piece of coin, even any metal, were placed in his hand, his hand would immediately get Paralysed. If a woman would come to him then he used to see utter darkness or his life-power would spontaneously be transformed into formless God within him i.e., he would be in Samadhi.

253)     “There  is  a  drought  in  a  certain  place”

There is want of God’s grace there. In a dream if a man sees to rain, then it is a divine dream and the shower of rain is the form of God’s grace.

254)     “The  Peasantry  began  to  excavate  elongated  channel

               to  bring  water  to  the  field”.

 These people want to get God by self-exertion.

Channel---represents the hollow in the backbone as this is the passage of the life-power to the cerebrum or the seventh plane.

Water---here represent life-power.