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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 )

314)                  “The  love of  a  lady  for  her  husband”.

It means to think oneself as a lady and to love God as her husband. The best instance is Radha and Krishna as depicted in the Indian epics.

315)              “The  world  appears like a foreign land where a man is come and

                         sojourning for certain allotted work.  As if, a man has got his own

                         home in a certain village but he works in Calcutta. He sojourns in

                         Calcutta for his work”.

Calcutta---signifies human body. God is confined in the body in an unseen and unattached state. Till liberation of Atma from the body takes place, the body is but a foreign land where there is no divine pleasure. A man is a born seeker of divine pleasure. He seeks pleasure in the outer world. He fails. When God liberates from the body and rise upward in the seventh plane---the village home---he gets taste of divine pleasure. He is satisfied and becomes quite. It is his native village and everything appears full of Eternal Bliss Sat—chit—ananda.

 316)             “If  love  of  God  develops  then  there will be a  complete  annihilation

                        And  evaporation  of  the  attachment  to  the  world  and  the  body”.

This mind is to be withdrawn from the world and it is to be kept confined in the body. Then God out of grace will emanate from the body and attachment of body will get slackened in grade along with liberation of God. But the first and foremost requirement is to get development of love to God and this cannot be had without His grace.

317)          “The slightest trace of bodily existence with olds the manifestation of

  God in the seventh plane and God is not seen”

 God pervades all through and over the body. If in full measure God emanates and gets Himself collected in the seventh plane then God will be seen. Or in other words, if God is seen in the seventh plane then there is an emanation of God in full measure from the body. If a single fibre of the body is in a sullied state then there will not be emanation in full measure and God in the seventh plane will not be seen.

“If there is the slightest defect in a black goat then it cannot be used for sacrificial purpose”.

                                                                                                                              -----Shri  Ramkrishna.

“The man who sees God in the seventh plane is a God’s man and God has made him with His own hands.”

                                                                                                                               -----Shri Ramkrishna.

(318)                   “A  damp match-stick cannot strike fire though a thousand

       times it is rubbed against the match-box”.   

 Match—box----is the human body.

This human body has got head on the top ; in a similar way a match—stick has got combustible ingredients on its top.

Within the head there is the seventh plane and thereon Chaitanya (God in Descent) which flaers up like a brilliant red flame of a Chinese red—flame match—stick.

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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 )

308)             “Ripe  or  real  devotion”.

This kind of love to God springs up after knowledge of ‘Thou’, accompanies the display of              Descent, and reaches the manikin form (Manus Ratan). If anyone attains this love of God, God Himself gives publicity by making other devotees known about it. This knowledge comes from within the devotees.                     

309)     “Those  devotees  whose  love  of God  is  not  a matured  one  cannot  get  the

          Sportive  forms  or  instructions  as  spoken, expressed  in  or  over their  body”.

It is so with a beginner (Prabartak).

(310)“In  a matured state of love of God,  If anything about God’s sports or any

 special manifestation of God in the body is spoken or heard then that God’s

                    sport or manifestation is realized by the listener in his body”.

It happens with Nitya Siddhas who have got their body along with their birth in such a state that    spontaneous liberation of God takes place in their body, as it is an innate heritage. An example is given below to illuminate the subject.   

There were two friends. The first friend used to say to the second one, “Well, Brahma Vidya, the supreme Cult, can be bestowed on another”. But he did never tell him the method of transfer. The second friend was as sincere devotee of Thakur. He dreamt---‘He was lying flat on his back. His God-the-Preceptor was lying over him on his chest placing face over face and putting in the tongue in the mouth of the seer’. When the second friend related this dream to the first friend, the later was struck with wonder and told him, “Well, this is the process for transfer of Brahma Vidya. It has been manifested in your body spontaneously through the grace of your God-the-Preceptor. In the Gospel of Shri Ramkrishna, Thakur has kept one inkling of it by putting in saliva of his own mouth by his finger into the mouth of a true devotee’.A spontaneous manifestation about the process of transfer of Brahma Vidya took place in the body of the second friend.

 (311)     “If  a photographic plate is not covered with silver nitrate then

                     it  does not retain the image reflected thereon”.

Photograph---means body and plate---is mind.

Covered with silver nitrate---signifies innate heritage of love of God.

In the receptacle like this there occurs a spontaneous manifestation if it is heard from a man who is blessed with all these various aspects of realization.

(312)                 “A  child’s  love  for  his  mother”.

 It means to love God as a child loves his mother. It is called Santan Bhava. It was so with Thakur. He loved God as mother. It is one of the methods to get God expressed in oneself.

(313)               “A mother’s  love  for  her  child”.

It means to love God as a mother loves her child. It is called Vatsalya. It was the instance of Mary and Jesus and it has been so beautifully Painted and shown in several pictures of Europe by several immortal painters. In this way a man may get God manifested in him.

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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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 Place : -  Temple  of  Dakshineswar

 (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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 Place : -  Temple  of  Dakshineswar

 (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.