RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

MARCH --1882     

Place : -  Temple  of  Dakshineswar

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

502. “He effaces ego in one or two”.

In the era of Thakur we find one, and that is Thakur and the term two is used simply to denote humility.

“A ghost cannot seek out a comrade”. – Sri Ramkrishna

Ghost – is Brahmajnani, i.e. he is no more a man made of five elements, but he is Atman.

Atman - is One and there is no comrade for Him.

This is in case of an individual realization.

But in the Universalism it bears a different character and proof.

A man becomes Brahma. He is seen by thousands; nay, he is in every human being somewhere manifested, and in others – though they are the majority – in an un-manifested condition. When a man is one with all the living men in his inner self, the egoism automatically collapses. Egoism has its birth from the sense of difference and many.

503. “Nobody can really know God”.

God has innumerable attributes – some are known but the majority is unknown. We know God with attributes but God without attributes (Nirguna Brahma) is not known and unfathomable.

“No discourse can be held with Nirguna” – Sri Ramkrishna

The great Swami Vivekananda pointed out, “Where there is evolution there is involution”.

Yes, involution at the time of birth but enfoldment of the Life Power is evolution and this Life Power gives out more knowledge (Jnana) as it advances along with time.

As for instance, Thakur is the first man in the arena of the world to point out that to see God and attainment of Godhead are the sole aim of this human life; whereas, all the past teachers of the world give out moral codes for leading pious and holy life. As for Buddha, Nirvana is not in the lifetime, but at the time of death.

Attainment of God means to become God and its proof will be borne by thousands.

In the Upanishad it is declared “I am Brahma”, but no proof is set up; nay, it goes further and declares “I am All”. But it is declared by one and not by thousands. It failed to set up any proof.

It is Universalism which bears proof and not Individualism.

A man becomes God and there is no other God anywhere else; rather everything else in relation to God is but pure imagination. He is One and One only, and this Oneness as experienced by thousands taking place with Diamond is the only attribute. It is so endorsed in the Vedas – Ekam Sat – Sa Ekah.

RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

MARCH --1882     

Place : -  Temple  of  Dakshineswar

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

500. “From the involution (Absolute) to the evolution (Phenomenal world) and again from the evolution to the involution”.

From the involution to the evolution – It means seeing of Atman in the cerebrum and then to see the Universe within this Atman.

From the evolution to the involution – It means transformation of the big Universe into a Seed and Seed into a Dream and then the Dream is succeeded by no-ego-existence. It is individual and a rare one.

There is another form of realization and this is realized by one and all, i.e. Universal.

A man becomes God but spiritually, as otherwise physically he is but a man like you.

He is seen within by thousands. The man seen within by thousands becomes Absolute and seers see the Leela (Sportive forms) within.

According to the Isha Upanishad, the man seen is the ‘Man-in-the-Sun’ and seers see Him in their own ‘gold-sheath’ (Hiranmaya Kosha).

Sun is the symbol of Life Power in the seventh plane and some 30 men and women have seen ‘Diamond’ so within them.

It may be taken as Plato’s ‘Absolute Equality’ and Abstract Equality’.

Five of the Upanishads: (1) Brihad-Aranyaka, (2) Chandogya, (3) Maitri, (4) Taittiriya and (5) Isha point out the ‘man in the Sun’. It is but Macrocosm; whereas, the thing actually takes place in the microcosm. The plain meaning is not in the outside world but in the human body. ‘The sun’ and the ‘Man-in-the Sun’ are seen. It is so experienced here by many but within their own cerebrum and reported to ‘Diamond’. And they are some 30 or more. Even now it is running.

501. “He (Atman) who is seen and shown by God-the-Preceptor as God has become this Universe and its living beings”.

It means ‘Ra’ of Thakur – the Universe with all its contents within Atman seen in the seventh plane, i.e. Viswarupa.

‘Ma’ first and then comes ‘Ra’. God first and then the Universe.

But the Universe is before the very eye of one and all. How does it come? Man is Brahma or creator. He creates the Universe. At the time of opening the eyes for the first time he casts this Universe from within and then comes on the earth. It takes place at the time of his birth. Thakur says, “In the Vedas it is spoken of the spider and its cob-web. The spider casts the web from within and then rests on it”.

Spider – is man – living Brahma.

Cob-web – is the Universe.

It is an individual realization and no proof can be set up for it.

The secondary proof is Ra.

It can be set forth from Thakur’s own life. In the house of Balaram Bose. Thakur was in Samadhi after an earthquake. When he came down from Samadhi he said, “Do you know what realization was going through me? The Universe was looked like a Shalagram Sila (a round small shining marble stone worshipped as God by the Hindus as a symbol of the Universe in miniature) with your two opened eyes fixed in it (the eyes of Sri ‘M’ who was addressed)”.

In other occasion he said, “I see a small Shalagram Sila in every man”.

RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

MARCH --1882     

Place : -  Temple  of  Dakshineswar

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

497. “Discrimination succeeds ‘Nivritti’ (Lit, mind without any occupation)”.

Nivritti is a cool, composite and even condition of mind. No Nivritti can be had until and unless God-the-Preceptor appears within the body. (Brahmachari appeared and the mind of the snake turned inward from the outward world in the metaphor as used by Thakur, vide explanation no. 41, page 91).

Then the yoga starts. Life Power or Kundalini gets awakened and in course of the upward progress of the Life Power a man gets Samadhi and then real Nivritti comes. In short, more the divinity appears within, more the Nivritti grows.

Furthermore, there is a kind of Samadhi known as Nirvija Samadhi which literally means burning up the seeds of desire.

498. “Then the mind gets a liking to have a walk to Kali, the wish-fulfilling Tree”.

Nivritti has freed the mind from the load of the worldly enjoyments, so the mind is free now and it gets upward course from the fourth plane to the seventh plane and at the end this Kalpataru or the wish-fulfilling Tree is seen.

An aspirant or Sadhaka has but one wish and that is to attain God, or in other words, to get himself transformed into God.

Here a young, fresh and lively mango tree is seen and the tree has unripe mangoes on the branches of the lower part and big, ripe and tempting mangoes on the branches at the top.

“When the juice of the ‘Invisible creeper’ or ‘Alek Late’ oozes in the abdomen then a tree grows”. – Sri Ramkrishna

Alek Lata or the invisible creeper is Brahma or God.

When this ripe mango is placed at the hand of the aspirant and he commences eating, licking and devouring it, then his wish is fulfilled.

499. “In the end, all-told together, there is but One”.

You along exist and you are that One. It is Viswarupa or the Universe within you.

It is the Cosmic Man of Jainism.

An instance is quoted here from the Gospel of Sri Ramkrishna.

“The crow Bhushandi is feeling to save itself from Sri Ramchandra. Wherever it flees it finds that the hand of Rama is holding a chase to catch it. Bhushandi gets tired and exhausted. Then it surrenders to Rama. Rama catches it and puts it in his mouth. Bhushandi then opens its eyes and finds that it is cozily resting on the very same branch where it used to perch.

“Bhushandi out of its own experience came to understand that though Rama outwardly looked like an ordinary man but the whole Universe was within Rama”. Rama means One.

It is so with one and all human being but after attainment of Brahma.

So far goes the ‘Individualism’ bearing no proof as it is a pure esoteric condition.

Universalism speaks and reveals a realistic data having advance its own proof.

Let a man attain Paramajyoti and thousands see Him within and declare it by setting up “One and Oneness”.

RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

MARCH --1882     

Place : -  Temple  of  Dakshineswar

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

492. “When the trunk of the tree grows thick and strong, the fencing is removed”.

When Life Power or Kundalini is awakened in full measure, no further precaution is required.

493. “Now if an elephant is tied to the tree, the elephant cannot break it”.

Elephant – is the symbol of mind. Life Power or Kundalini when awakened controls the mind.

494. “First besmear your hands with oil and then break open the Jackfruit”.

Oil – is the symbol of Chaitanya or yogic consciousness as seen in the cerebrum and it flares up emitting brilliant red light.

Jackfruit – is the world. It yields a flavored sweet juice. The world is full of temptations and allurements. If this yogic consciousness is attained, the temptation and allurements will fail to bewitch the attainer. His body and Atman separates. He becomes Atman, remains aloof, and nothing can tarnish him.

To add to it, the metaphor of Jackfruit reminds one of the five sheaths as realized in the human body as pointed out in the Vedas.

495. “A man of ‘Discrimination’ (Viveka) knows that God is Real and everything else is unreal”.

Discrimination is Viveka – the capacity to discriminate between real and unreal.

A man gets discrimination after coming down from the Jara Samadhi. He will be firmly established in it. Every turn and every effort of his life will be directed towards God. In short, he lives for God and God alone as evinced in the life of Thakur. This is Viveka.

496. “Being established in discrimination one wants to know God”.

To have established is discrimination means to see God in the seventh plane as otherwise no discrimination can come out. After seeing God or Atman, the sense that ‘I am Atman’ and ‘not this body’ springs up automatically and this is real discrimination.

To know God – means to know the attributes or nature of God. Yes, a man sees God as pointed out and spoken out by God-the-Preceptor but the seer is not aware of any attribute of God. Then comes automatic enfoldment of Atman or God.

“If Atman, out of grace unfolds Himself”. – Sri Ramkrishna

Atman unfolds Himself in the five following ways as pointed out in the realization of the Vedanta. They are: –

(1) To see God or Atman.

(2) To see the Universe within this Atman.

(3) This big Universe turns into a Seed or Jara Samadhi.

(4) The existence of the Seed appears to be a Dream.

(5) This Dream is succeeded by Sthitha Samadhi.

RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

MARCH --1882     

Place : -  Temple  of  Dakshineswar

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

486. “He is a Sadhu whom women see in their heart and at the same time he is not seen in the company of women folk”.

The term 'antar' in Bengali as used by Thakur has got double meanings;

(1) To live in the heart of the women; i.e., the women without coming in contact with him shall see him within them. This is happening here in the house of the male members who visit here and attend the reading of the Gospel of Sri Ramkrishna. The male members see the Sadhu (Diamond) and the women folk of their house also see him within them; even in some cases the maid-servant is not excluded.

(2) The women folk are not required to attend.

487. “If it so happens, that he (Sadhu) meets a woman, he looks upon her as his mother and offers his worship”.

It is not so required in the present case. Sadhu and the woman are but ‘One’ spiritually, and a spontaneous self-Knowledge springs up and rejects all other ideas about woman.

488. “A Sadhu always thinks of God”.

The mind of a Sadhu always rests in the seventh plane. It is very adroitly and nicely pointed out by Sankaracharya, the great non-dualist of India, “The man who all the day and night keeps on moving on Brahma is a Sadhu”.

Brahma is in the seventh plane or the cerebrum.

489. “He (Sadhu) talks of God and God alone and nothing else”.

The mind of a Sadhu never comes down from the fifth plane.

When a man’s mind is on the fifth plane he talks of God and God alone.

To talk of God only is an insignia that the mind of the man is on the fifth plane.

490. “He (Sadhu) renders services to all beings”.

By Mahayoga he transforms others spiritually into his own self in the shape of his own person.

As Sadhu is Perfect so the service rendered by him is the perfect one.

491. “As long as they (trees) are younger they are to be fenced around”.

The Life Power is awakening in a man in a feeble way. He should not ventilate it. He should be on his guard and nurture it so that it may grow.

RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

MARCH --1882     

Place : -  Temple  of  Dakshineswar

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

483. “Every now and then one should retire in solitude, pray to God for being ‘Perfect’, or to be one with Him, or getting transformed into Godhead”.

Solitude does not mean ‘Alexander Selkirk’ in the island or alone in the Himalayan cave or in the desert of Sahara or in the forest of Africa. It simply means a place where there is no kith and kin of a man so that he may have an undiverted attention and the mind may be at rest and peace.

This is Vividisha. This Brahma Vidya or Supreme Culture or culture which makes a man spiritually One with all the rest of the human race cannot be had by self-exertion. It is Para Vidya and not Apara Vidya. In Para Vidya the knowledge comes spontaneously from within and Apara Vidya means the knowledge got from the outside.

Not unlike the Rishis of the ancient time Thakur declared openly, “Yes, I have seen God”. Whereas, in case of Buddha, he did not do so; he did not see God. In case of Buddha, it was self-exertion and in case of Thakur, it was spontaneous. Just remember – eleven years old lad Ramkrishna (Gadadhar then) on his way to the village Anur saw Light within and got Samadhi. This was the fountainhead from which every other realizations followed.

This Thakur’s ‘Seeing of God’ did not bear any proof as chalked out in the Vedas – “Twam Jato Bhavasi Viswatomukhah”.

In short, it is not acknowledge in the Vedas.

Universalle-La’-Homme or the Universal Man bears the insignia of the saying of the Bible – “Be Perfect as your Father in Heaven is Perfect”.

The Vedic Truth also declared long long ago – “The Man in the Sun is Perfect”. Otherwise perfection does not follow.

484. “He who with all the tendencies of life, mind and the innermost self, has merged into God is Sadhu”.

God alone is Sadhu or Perfect or Advaitam.

A MAN becomes GOD. He is seen within by thousands and thousands and in the some cases He says openly, “Hello, look here! Do you know who I am? I am God”. Really, it is wonder of wonders!

485. “Renunciation of ‘woman and wealth’ is the denomination of a Sadhu”.

It is secondary. A man may feign it.

RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

MARCH --1882     

Place : -  Temple  of  Dakshineswar

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

480. “Both father and mother are to be looked upon as god and goddess”.

Here it is a combination of the two ideas; Servant and Son. Hanuman serves Rama and here Hanuman is a servant. Jesus cries out “Father! Father”! Here Jesus is a Son. If a son serves his parents with such earnestness and zeal then he may get realization of the sixth plane, i.e. God with form. It is called Sahajiya or the easy way.

In Universalism there is no ‘Father’ or ‘Mother’.

To worship God as ‘Father’ or ‘Mother’ is an imaginary data and it is called Bhava, a false start of emotion for reaching Godhood and a man cannot get his end. The Vedic Truth stands good and the man from Brahmapura must come; otherwise, no goal can be reached.

Sometimes in dream ‘Father’ and ‘Mother’ are seen, but there they represent “The First man” (Adi Purusha) and “The Primordial Force” or Kundalini.

481. “If a man takes to the family-life after attainment of God then no physical connection remains with the wife”.

It is Thakur’s own life. Not that he neglected his wife but on the contrary the Holy Mother was worshipped by him as goddess.

The lust vanishes from the body. “When there is Rama, there is no Kama (lust)”.

“The love of the washer-woman is like pure gold, symbol of Atman, and it does not carry the least smell of lust”. – Chandidas

The lust has left the man and its outward manifestation is visible in the body. Let somebody utter the word ‘lust’ before him or let him utter the word Kama, he shall get Samadhi.

It is Pratyahar of Yoga and it means to cast off.

The sound of the word may pollute the body of the devotee. He (God in the man is in an awakened condition) manifests Himself to a degree and saves the body from the contamination of pollution.

482. “The common people cannot reckon them”.

Common people – means those people who think that they are ‘bodies’, a lump of flesh and blood only, and having no sense of God within, nay, a bit more, devoid of the sense that he is born to become God.

“The sole aim of this life is to get transformed into God”. – Sri Ramkrishna

Cannot reckon them – yes, it is very difficult to recognize a True man. It needs grace of God and Yoga. God within you will assume the form of the True man living in the outside and appear within you, i.e. a True man lives being merged in God – i.e. a True or Perfect or Real man has got his abode in every man. This is the only test for a True man.

“The publicity of the True man is given by God”. – Sri Ramkrishna

It is Universalism and Universalism only which reveals the True man as pointed out by Rabindranath Tagore, “Yes, there is a ‘Man’ in us and that Man crossing the border of the individual ‘mandom’ always abides in the heart (cerebrum – the seventh plane) of each and every member of the human race” – and this saying of Rabindranath runs abreast with the teachings of the Vedas, but with ‘Diamond’ it is His life-picture.

Again to add to it, Dr. Tagore borrowed it from the Baul Sampradaya of Bengal and with them also it is but an imagery. With us even at the present era it is de facto and the first alive appearance in the human life of the prayers of the Vedic Rishis and the human race alike.