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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 )

452. “Milk is to be kept in a quiet place, then it will set into curd, and butter is to be churned from it”.

Milk – represents blood of the body.

In a quiet place – means withdrawing one’s mind from the world and keeping it confined within body when mind will be quiet.

Set into curd – means when blood in the body will be in a balanced condition and at rest.

Human body gets these conditions when God emanates from the body.

Now churning rod is required for getting butter.

Life Power is the churning rod.

Butter – represents God in the seventh plane.

Life Power churns the body and gets herself transformed into God in the seventh plane.

“Then the venom of the snake falls down in the skull”.

– Sri Ramkrishna

If milk is churned into butter within twenty five years of age then and then alone a man gets butter.

“You have got to pay in full measure, if you want to purchase a commodity in full measure”.

– Sri Ramkrishna

Butter – Atman – God emanates in full measure when this human body is in a full-bloomed youth. A man’s full-bloomed youth is twenty five years age. This calculation has been left by Thakur.

“If a son urges vehemently for his share on his father and mother, then the parents in consultation with each other give out his share some two or three years beforehand”.

– Sri Ramkrishna

‘Father’ – is God, the Absolute, in an unseen and unattached condition in the body.

‘Mother’ – is this human body.

God, the Absolute, through this body manifests Himself and He is seen.

The fixed age is about twenty five years. Thakur got the Divine Mother (Atman) between the age of twenty two and twenty three. If two or three are added to twenty two or twenty three then it becomes twenty five. The exact time is twenty four years and eight months.

A man obtains his God-the-Preceptor at the age of twelve years and four months. At the age of twenty four years and eight months he gets and sees Atman, God, in the seventh plane. It takes twelve years and four months in the body for God’s manifestations and realizations in multifarious conditions in the process of transformation of Life Power into God.

453. “He was with his bent-down head”.

This bent-down head signifies that Life Power has concentrated and made her passage through the medulla oblongata to the cerebrum and thereby the nerves there have been slackened, so the head is bent down.

When Buddha used to be out with his begging bowl for alms, he was found to be walking with his head fixing his eyes on the toe of his bent-down feet. It was the sign that his Life Power entered the seventh plane slackening the nerves of his neck.

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447. “A man attains devotion and knowledge”.

What is devotion and what are the realizations and manifestations of devotion in the human life and body?

(a) It is to attain God-the-Preceptor first. Then Life Power awakens. By awakening of Life Power, devotion establishes itself in the body. It is but the beginning.

(b) Establishment of devotion in the full-fledged form is to obtain the manikin form of God engaged in prayer by clasping his hands within oneself.

What is Knowledge and how a man will know about attainment of knowledge?

(a) To see God in the seventh plane as shown by God-the-Preceptor is the first stage of Knowledge.

(b) ‘I am not this body but I am He’ – is the second stage.

(c) The final stage of Knowledge is at the outset of Descent when it spontaneously bursts out “I am not Thou”.

448. “After attainment of knowledge and devotion a man may live in the world and the world will not be able to tarnish him”.

Here it is spoken about Supreme Knowledge.

After attainment of Supreme Knowledge a man lives but he does not lead an ordinary man’s life. He lives, he eats, he sleeps and by God’s commandment he becomes a ‘man-catcher’ as Christ told Peter.

449. “The sticky milk of a Jackfruit will not stick to one’s hand if the Jackfruit is broken after rubbing one’s hand with oil”.

Oil – is the second symbol by which the Supreme Consciousness is revealed in the human body. It is so seen by a man that he is rubbing his body with mustard oil which has got a reddish yellow color. The real ‘Supreme Consciousness’, Chaitanya, flares up in a flame of brilliant red light in the seventh plane. ‘Honey’ is the first symbol by which Chaitanya is represented.

Jackfruit – represents this human body. A jackfruit has got several sheaths. This human body has got five sheaths and in these five sheaths God expresses Himself in several kinds of realizations.

Sticky milk – is attachment to the world.

A man after attaining Supreme Consciousness may live in this world as his life is a life of the liberated one.

450. “In a game of hide and seek, if the ‘granny’ is touched then one is safe”.

Game of hide and seek – is three qualities or strands (Triguna) known as Sattva, Rajas and Tamas.

Sattva is represented by white color and it means quietness or wisdom.

Rajas is represented by red color and it means restlessness or activity.

Tamas is represented by black color and it means lacking in alertness. It is inertia and dull.

Granny – represents God.

The three qualities or strands are but thieves in the game ‘hide and seek’ in the body as it is they who keep God (granny) hidden from coming within view.

A man must overcome these three qualities or strands and then he shall be able to attain God in him – an ever blissful state.

451. “Let you turn into gold by once touching the Philosopher’s stone; then you may remain buried underground for thousand years and after that when you are taken out you will remain gold”.

Gold – represents God – Atman in body.

If God out of grace once emanates from the body in full measure and is seen in the seventh plan then He will never come back again into the bondage of the body.

If Supreme Culture is once attained then it does never get extinct. It is sheer God’s Grace and God’s grace is perpetuated. 

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442. “A learned ignorance is the end of philosophy and the beginning of religion”.

A philosopher wants and attempts to attain God through learning. He fails. It hits him in his egoism. But it cannot extinguish his real egoism. Real egoism dies when Life Power is transformed and becomes visible in the form of God – Atman, and ego-consciousness changes and becomes identical with God-consciousness.

Beginning of Religion – starts with the appearance of Satchidananda Guru – God-the-Preceptor in the body. It is a positive aspect.

443. “There are some who are born free – Nitya Siddha”.

They are born with such a pliable body that God in their body is liberated spontaneously; of course, it is a rare thing, but it happens. It so happened with Thakur at the age of eleven.

444. “Those who have got such a waist where Life Power gets awakened spontaneously are Iswarkoty”.

The first awakening of Life Power in the body takes place below waist and then she makes her way through the backbone to the seventh plane.

There are two kinds of Iswarkoty.

(1) “Some bamboos have got bigger hollows in them”.

– Sri Ramkrishna

‘Bamboo’ – represents backbone.

‘Bigger hollow’ – represents the tubular space in the backbone.

In an Iswarkoty, the hollow in the backbone is bigger than any ordinary man.

But this kind of Iswarkoty is Iswarkoty in name only as their realization and emanation of God is their body are meagre.

(2) They are real Iswarkoty who in Descent see God-consciousness coming down from the seventh plane to the waist. It is the full-fledged form of Iswarkoty. Then he becomes aware that he is an Iswarkoty.

445. “I gave up everything at the feet of Divine Mother but I could not give up Truth to Her”.

God is Truth and Truth is God.

Truth or Reality or God is in Thakur. He sees and feels this Reality with every breath. So this Truth or Reality or God cannot be parted with. This Truth manifests in everybody external life. Thakur gave up ‘Woman and Gold’. It manifested in his everybody external life. It often so happened with him that with the appearance of a woman before him, he got Samadhi and thereby used to lose his consciousness. As for gold, if a silver coin were placed in the palm of his hand, then his hand would get paralyzed, his breathing would stop and he would feel pain and these changes in his body would not come back into normal condition till the silver coin was removed.

446. “It is very hard for a man to discharge the duties of a house-holder after liberation in full measure as well as separation of God from the body”.

A man with these conditions in him attains the Supreme Knowledge. After attainment of Supreme Knowledge, a man lives only to see the sportive forms of God in him. So far the material world is concerned, he merely lives. Thakur used to say, “I shall eat, I shall sleep and I shall live”. But ultimately it does not remain so. He gets God’s commandment and becomes an universal teacher, nay more than that – an Administrative General in the spiritual life.

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436. “Sometimes, a devotee laughs, weeps, dances, and sings”.

These are all outward signs of manifestations of insignia by which an Avatar is known, as it happens with Avatar only. It is called Urjita Bhakti or devotion in the Flow-tide form. God incarnates in a man. How am I to know it? This laughing, weeping, dancing and singing are the outward manifestations of God’s incarnation in a human being.

437. “A man of knowledge (Jnani) wants to realize the Supreme God”.

This type of man wants to see and attain God by self-exertion. No attempt on a man’s part can enable him to see God without God’s grace.

Furthermore, he is the man of knowledge who has been God in the form of Atman in the seventh plane and is able to identify himself as one and same with Atman at the annihilation of the body-consciousness.

438. “God is for a devotee and He is full of innumerable attributes”.

God becomes Bhagawan when He holds the Universe within Him. This condition of God may be seen in the Personal God as well as within Atman. To see the Universe in the personal God is a lower type of realization in comparison with seeing of the Universe within Atman.

439. “In fact, God without attributes and Life Power are identical and one”.

It is God without attributes who becomes God with attributes. It is seen and understood in Descent.

440. “It is God, Absolute, who has become Blissful Mother”.

God, the Absolute and this human body are identical and one and the same in different aspects.

“Semen is so soft and fluid and from it this hard and stiff physical body is made”.

– Sri Ramkrishna

441. “Pure Knowledge and Pure Love are identical and one”.

It is only different nomenclature as ascribed. There is but one God. God appears in the body in various sportive forms. They are seen. Love begets a form made of light as it is self-creation; whereas Man-of-knowledge is seen by innumerable members of the human race within their own bodies bearing proof that it is man who becomes God. This realization is spontaneous.

The question of Pure Knowledge and Pure Love does not arise.

“Atman, God or Brahma – they are one”.

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431. “As the ocean is approached by the river, the force of flow-tide and ebb-tide is increasingly felt by her”.

Ocean – is God, the ocean of Bliss.

River – is Life Power.

Flow-tide and ebb-tide – are the outward sings of manifestations of God in the body and they are seen.

The inward transformations of Life Power get their expression over the body. It so happened with Thakur every now and then. In successions he used to have Samadhi of various forms and in every case of Samadhi, his outward expressions altered and they were visible.

432. “In ‘Jnani’ (man of knowledge), the river flows only in one direction”.

A man of knowledge (Jnani) wants to get himself merged in the First Cause. They did not get their five sheaths separated in their body. Neither they realize the sportive forms of God as Life Power after undergoing transformations assumes and appears before a devotee, nor they are acquainted with the mystery of God, illusion, living beings, and the Universe. The best example was Sri Totapuri Maharaj who stopped with Thakur for eleven months in the temple of Dakshineswar. Totapuri Maharaj had no knowledge of Primal Power (Karan Sarir – the Causal body, the body made of God’s Light i.e. God with form). Yes, Totapuri Maharaj was a man of very high order and merit but his realizations were short. A Jnani’s realizations are not in full measure. This is Laya Yoga or Life Power running towards void zone or annihilation.

433. “To a man of knowledge (Jnani) the Universe is like a dream”.

Who is a man of knowledge?

He, who sees God in the seventh plane and becomes conscious that he is not body but God (Atman), is a man of Knowledge.

It happens only with Avatar – the chosen man of God. All others simply pretend to be a man of knowledge.

To see the Universe like a dream is the fourth stage of realizations when Atman in the seventh plane opens Himself to show His real Self, i.e. He is with attributes and forms. Without any knowledge of God with attributes and form a man cannot have knowledge of God without attributes and forms. So to say that the Universe is like a dream is a pretension and imagination.

434. “A man of knowledge always remains in the Real Self”.

To a man of knowledge, the Real Self is the Absolute. It never happens with a man save and except in the last course of Samadhi known as Sthitha Samadhi.

“Well, the ego-consciousness never leaves one”. – Sri Ramkrishna

435. “To a devotee, realizations of God do not remain closed but they unfold. He gets flow-tide and ebb-tide of realizations”.

Flow-tide of realization – is to see the different sportive forms of God and ebb-tide of realization – is to witness the finer forms of God in the course of transformation to the Absolute such as seen in the enfoldment of Atman. God-the-Universe changes into a Seed, and the Seed into a Dream and after Dream, nobody knows what remains.

“A devotee at first sees glorious God with form and with glorious attributes, then the attributes of God with form lessen, then He turns into a baby form and finally He becomes God’s Light”. – Sri Ramkrishna

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(Henceforth  Shri  Ramkrishna  will be  spoken  of  as Thakur” when required  as  it is so  done in the  Gospel )

427. “Let you ascend by transformation of Life Power to the bliss to God-consciousness then you shall be getting ineffable joy”.

If by devotion, your Life Power is transformed into God in the path of Ascent, then you shall be blessed with Supreme Bliss and Joy.

428. “Yes, there exists in every man the bliss of God-consciousness; only it is hidden by the veiling and have the veil removed”.

It is spoken of the seventh plane when it is seen by removal of the cover which rolls up like a curtain in a theatre.

“The water of a tank is hidden with a layer of aquatic plants. The wind blows and gets the aquatic plants shifted aside. The water of the tank is seen”.

– Sri Ramkrishna

Life Power rises by penetrating the body in the seventh plane, gets the layer of the cerebrum removed, and the ocean of Bliss of God is seen. It is called seeing the ocean of Satchidananda – the all Blissful aspect of God.

Swami Vivekananda once said to one of his friends, “do you know, why nobody can compete with me? The layer in the form of a curtain of my cerebrum is rolled up”.

429. “The less your attachment is to your body, the more loves of God you will get in you”.

The more, the liberation of God from the body, the quicker He will make His way to the seventh plane. It is Yearning for God. It is a yogic aspect and it has its own bliss which is felt by every devotee.

430. “The more Sreemati was advancing towards Sri Krishna, the more she was smelling the sweet fragrance of Krishna’s body”.

Sreemati and Sri Krishna – were the heroine and hero of Bhagavat – an epic.

Sreemati – represents this body and ultimately Life Power.

Sri Krishna – is Atman – God.

She was advancing – means her Life Power was being transformed into sheaths. According to the Vedas there are five sheaths and according to the Tantras there are four sheaths. The realizations as laid down in the Vedas are deeper and superior to Tantra.

The sweet fragrance of Krishna’s body – means the various kinds of realizations; not only that, but fix your eyes on the tip of your nose and you may have a sweet fragrance coming out from within yourself. Furthermore God-the-Preceptor sometimes appears with an amazing sweet smell.

Here, Life Power is being transformed into God and in the course of transformation various kinds of realizations are made, such as – (i) to see that every bit of the Universe is smeared with God’s Light, (ii) to see the half-man and half-woman body, (iii) to see the eye of wisdom opened, (iv) to see the exquisitely beautiful dancing lady, (v) to see God in 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 )

421. “Sreemanta was a great devotee”.

Sreemanta was also an epical hero. While Sreemanta was his way to Lanka (Now Sri Lanka), he saw that on the sea the Divine Mother was dancing on a big lotus. Sreemanta had no idea that he saw it in him in the seventh plane. He reached Lanka and met the king and promised to show him the dancing lady on the lotus. He brought the king on the sea to show him the sight. But no dancing lady on the lotus was there and for this Sreemanta had to undergo a severe punishment.

Realization made by one cannot be shown to others. This is possible only in case of an Avatar like Thakur.

“God is seen only through the grace of God”.

– Sri Ramkrishna

422. “There was a wood-cutter. He was a great devotee to the Divine Mother. She appeared before the wood-cutter and gave him Her grace and love. But the wood-cutter had nevertheless to carry on his profession of wood-cutting and to earn his livelihood by it”.

The Supreme Cult does not bear any relationship with the ordinary course of life. The physical body, after attainment of the Supreme Cult will remain as it was before. It will feel pleasure and pain as it used to do. One must be earning his honest livelihood. It is only possible for a man without the least tinge of desire that ‘to see God is for the sake of seeing God’ and ‘to attain God is for the sake of attaining God’ only.

423. “A devotee gets the divine perfection and attributes of Knowledge and Devotion and these never part with him”.

The Supreme Cult knows to death. In the body where it is exhibited, it rests and never leaves him.

“The father has taken his own child on his shoulder”.

– Sri Ramkrishna

Here the child has no fear to have a fall.

424. “It is full, so it does not give out any sound, as if, it is like a pitcher filled with water”.

Pitcher – represents human body.

There remains no sound when the Life Power is transformed into God in Samadhi. A man becomes speechless.

425. “Narada and Sukdeva after attainment of Samadhi came down up to the nack”.

Narada and Sukdeva (two ideal men of devotion and knowledge in mythology) had Chetan Samadhi in Descent. They had no control over it. It was so with them as God willed it and hence this Descent. They were not reckoned as Avatars.

426. “No sooner Thakur heard the words ‘blissful joy of Perpetuity’, he was merged in deep Samadhi”.

The words pertaining to the Supreme Cult was heard and at once it was exhibited by manifestations of outward signs on the body of Thakur. This was the test of the Supreme Cult.

Let one speak about the Supreme Cult and if the speaker has attained it, then and there manifestations of the Supreme Cult will come upon him and among the audience if there is anyone who has attained it then these manifestations will come upon him also.