RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

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 )

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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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 )

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.

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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 )

The  Master  and  Vijay  Goswami

at  Dakshineswar

Thursday---December  14, 1882  

245)     “It was  his  last  birth”                

  Here, a real devotee who saw God with form committed suicide, Thakur made this remark, “It was last birth”

Last birth—means to be merged in the Great Cause. But it is the last phase of realization as laid down in the Tantras. Here in the life of this devotee, God did not manifest Himself in Supreme Knowledge; then he would have remained to fulfill God’s  mission in life. “If God needs then He manifests Himself in Supreme Knowledge in a man”. Here the devotee died, so he had no God’s mission of fulfillment in life. It transpires that he did not attain the Supreme Knowledge. To attain Supreme Knowledge needs manifestation of God in the five sheaths as laid down in the Vedas. The man in whose body God manifests Himself as Supreme Knowledge lives being liberated from the bondage of body. There is no ego or ‘I’ for the liberated one but a perpetual “Thou”; so there would not have been any suicide.             

246)     “Such  happenings  come  into  existence”

This is that very unexpected and spontaneous favourable  circumstances which a man experiences in ordinary course of life. This favourable circumstances arise through the grace of God and a man takes its advantage through innate inclination.

In the course of realizations in various forms of God as Atma in the seventh plane it transpires that the three chambers---Past, Present and Future---of time are but one, and everything is predestined. Nothing is to come bur everything is in existence. There is no future but a continuous present. Present in the existence as it is predestined.

Thakur yearned for a bower of holy basil plants (Tulsi Kanan). But he had no arrangement for it. All necessary equipments for the bower came afloating in the Ganges. The gardener noticed it and informed Thakur. So the bower of holy basil plants was made.

The temple of Dakshineswar was constructed for Thakur(Shri Ramkrishna) to live and to talk about the sportive forms of God as seen in the human body. Rani Rasmani, the owner of the temple-garden, was ordered to build the temple in a dream.

The ‘Bhairabi’ (woman adapt in Tantrik disciplines) being commanded in a dream came to Dakshineswar to help Thakur in his realizations of the sportive forms of God as laid down in the 64 Tantras. Puri Maharaj (the itinerant monk who helped Thakur in his realizations of the Vedanta in the seventh plane) came to Dakahineswar being led by the same cause. It is to happen and it happens.

247)     “After  a  gold  image  is  cast  into  a  clay  mould  you  may

              Preserve the  clay  mould  or  it  may  be  broken”

Gold image---is the form of body made of God’s light as seen in the forth sheath or the sixth plane. The ‘form of body’ made of God’s light changes to Atma—God. After seeing this Atma, if God so wills then the man lives or otherwise within 21 days of transformation of the life-power into Atma, the attainer of this state gives up his body.

248)     “So  some,  after  attainment  of  knowledge  and  seeing  God  cast  away

             their  bodies;  but  to  give  up  body  in  that  way  a  very  tall  talk”

 Attainment of knowledge---means to see God in the form of Atma and to have the sense grown that ‘I am not body but I am God’.

Seeing  God---is to see the Universe in Atma—God.

I am Atma. The Universe is in Atma, that is, the Universe is in me---the Atma---God

But such realization comes only to one marked man of God in an era. So the question of casting away the body after attainment of knowledge does not arise. The attainment of knowledge---i.e. seeing God in the form of Atma identical with Atma and then to see that the Universe is in Atma are but rare realizations and they happen through sheer grace of God, as the blessed man of all these realizations is born to receive God’s commandment for relating the sportive forms of God as seen in the body.

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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 )

 240)     “Afterwards  I  told  Keshab,  “Why  do  you  say  such  things  so  often.

            “O  God,  what beautiful  flowers  Thou  hast  made!  Thou  hast  created

             the  heavens,  the  stars,  the  oceans  and  so  on”?

The  speaker speaks out to evince that his mind is roaming in the outside world and his life-power is not transformed into God, and it is not in the body, i.e., he not a Yogi.

241)     “So,  I  say,  a  man  seeks  the  very  same  man  whom  he  finds  Joy.

              He  does  not  go  to  enquire  address  of  his  house  or  how  many

              houses,  gardens,  relatives,  servants  and  wealth  he  owns!”              

It is spoken of a man who has got God in him all on a sudden—Hathat Siddha. A Hathat Siddha becomes so deeply moved with joy of God in him that he does not seek for other sportive forms of God.

242)     “Who  is  that  man  rowing  the  boat  on  and  across  the  land?”

The boat is rowed on and across the land through the grace of God-the-preceptor as God-the-preceptor opened out this passage when He come down from the formless God.

Land---here represents  body.

Boat---represents life-power.

Life-power courses her way through the body and falls into the ocean of the Supreme Bliss, i.e., in the seventh plane. All these things are seen, otherwise they cannot be understood. God-the-preceptor shows these things in the body and then makes one understand by teaching.

To row a boat on land is absurd. But nothing is absurd for God. God-the-preceptor shows the devotee that a boat is rowed on land by him. It is His grace.

243)     “Nikasha  replies---‘O  Rama, I am  so  long  alive,  hence

              I  am  seeing  all  these  sportive  forms  of  you, I  went  to

              live  further  so  that  I  may  see  your  more  sportive  forms 

              which are  to  come”

 Nikasha the mother of Ravana, the King of Lanka (Ceylon); it is so spoken in the great Indian epic Ramayana.

Ravana---represents the animality in a man. With the advent of God in the human body the animality dies;

The man with divinity in him lives and Nikasha represents that man. A man becomes ‘Nikasha’ when he gets the manikin form of God in him in Descent. He wants to live more to see other sportive forms of God in him as he is the marked devotee of God and his body is really the God’s house, i.e., temple, church, mosque, etc.

244)     “The  ways  of  God  cannot  be  understood”

“A milk pot for two pounds milk cannot hold eight pounds”---Shri Ramkrishna.

All the infinite sportive forms of God cannot get their manifestations and expressions in the human body. The limit of expression is so far as He by His grace manifests Himself in the body.

                                                 

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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 )

                                                                                                 

231)     “When  the  Brahmins  are  fed  in  a  feast,

              there  is  much  noise  at  the  beginning”

At the start, a man is prone to make a parade of his devotion to God with grandeur and pomp.

232)     ”Then  they  sit  with  plantain—leaves  in  front  of  them”.

              (In  a  fest  of  Bengal  plantain  leaves  serve  the  purpose  of  plates).

When a man becomes composed and quite, then God in him emanates and life-power concentrates and wake up.

233)     “Bring  some  ‘luchi’, bring  some  ‘uchi’ (unlaven  bread

              Fried  in  clarified  butter)”

This signifies a through yearning for God and also that an inner transformation of life-power is going on.

234)     “Then  they  commence  partaking  of  ‘luchi’ and  other  dishes”

Then start various kinds of realizations.

235)     “Some  three  quarters  of  the  noise  of  feast  have  subsided”

God from the body has emanated by three quarters and the man is enjoying the tuch of God in himself. “A monk has got three quarters of his mind in touch with God in himself---Shri Ramkrishna.

236)     “Curd  succeeds  luchi  and  other  dishes”.

Here curd represents the seventh plane. In the course of the transformation of life-power, the seventh plane or cerebrum is seen.

237)     “Then,  after  the  feast,  follows  sleep”

Sleep---signifies “Samadhi” or transformation of life-power into God, both with attributes and without attributes.

238)       “When  a  daughter-in-law  in  a  family  conceives,  the  mother-in-law

                 lessens the  household  work  of  the  daughter-in-law.  At  the tenth

                 month  of  conception  there  remains  no  work  for  her.  When  the

                 baby  is  born,  the  mother  is  at  absolute  rest.  All  she  has  got  to

                 do  is  to  tend  the  new-born  baby”.

(a)   To conceive---here represents God’s emanation from the body.

(b)   Daughter-in-law---is the form of God as seen in the fourth sheath or the sixth plane.

©    Mother-in-law---represents body.

(d)   To lessen the household work---is to collect and get the life-power transformed and fixed in the sixth plane.

(e)   At the tenth month---means the entrance to the seventh plane---when God’s light is seen further on when the glorious sun is seen behind a silken screen.

(f)   The baby---represents Atma---God in the seventh plane.

(g)   Only the tend the baby---means to have God unfolded His mystery and characteristics in various sportive forms in the seventh plane. Principally the sportive forms of God may be divided into five chapters :--

  

(i)    God---Atma ;

(ii)   The universe  is  in  God

(iii)   God, the  Universe,  turns  into  a  Seed---an  Atom ;

(iv)   God, the   Atom, is  but  a  Dream ;  and

(v)    The  Dream  vanishes  and  there  remains  no ego-con-sciousness.

239)     “When  a  well  is  dug”

It is spoken of the body where a well is dug. In the well God is seen in the form of transparent water. The water of well is transformed into vapour. The vapour penetrates the body and makes God and body separated. In the end it penetrates the sound also. These penetrations of body and sound express and manifest their signs over the body and they are not only seen but they are heard also.  

When the vapour penetrates the body, the head keeps on swinging from left to right to left and a ‘cling’ ‘cling’ sound is heard. It is like to sound of a dries-up cocoanut or a ripe betel-nut in a shell.

When the vapour penetrates the sound (Nad) in the end of the seventh plane, the head will keep on swinging onward and backward. It is exactly like a big chunk of ice sinking and floating in a vast sheet of water. Then the chunk sinks and no-ego-consciousness remains.

Another striking feature is that if any blessed man has retained all these realizations in his body, then if anybody else speaks out all these before him them all the outward manifestations shall come upon the body of the retainer and they cannot be keep in concealment. The supreme Culture---Brahma Vidya---no sooner then will be heard, will express itself over the body of the retainer, as it is God’s sports in the body. If the body does not respond at the mention of the name of Brahma Vidya, then it is to be understood that the man has not attained it.  

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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 )

                                                                                                 

223)     “Forehead  is  the  seat  of  the  sixth  plane, the  mind  reaches  there  in  the

              forehead  and  the  devotee  sees  God  with  form,  God’s  other  sportive

              forms,  and  God’s  light,  day  and  light”

 A retinue (Nityasiddha---Iswarkati) of an Incarnation of God (Avatar) sees God in His various sportive forms .But in an Avatar, the realization is different. Firstly, the third eye or eye of knowledge opens. It is called ‘eye of knowledge’ because it is the divine eye through which various sportive forms of God are seen within the cerebrum. In the eye of knowledge the symbols of realizations to come upon in the seventh plane are seen—such as, a miniature image of Buddha or other symbols. Then the image of Mysterious Maya (Rahaswamayee Maya) is seen. She is quite, slim, something made of unseen beauty, youthful and slowly dancing in rhythm and the gaze of her eyes are fixed on the toe of her feet. Then succeeds various sportive forms of God. Then God’s light is seen.

In seeing the God’s light there is a difference between an Avatar and his retinue.

A retinue sees God’s light in a lantern or in a bulb or both in lantern and electric bulb. Then he sees God’s light without any cover. But these are realizations of the sixth plane. An Avatar sees that a silk curtain is hanging before his sight and there shines the glorious rising sun behind the curtain.

224)     “Then  the  mind  enters  the  seventh  plane.  The man  is  endowed  with  the

               knowledge  of  Brahma  (God)  and  sees  God  (Brahma---Atma)”

    

It is spoken of seeing God in the seventh plane where God-the-preceptor shows God and merges into God. After seeing God in the seventh plane a retinue of an Avatar cannot keep up his body any more. So the great Swamiji’s (Swami Viveknanda) passage for the seventh plane was kept under lock and key by Thakur.

An Avatar’s body is retained after seeing God in the seventh plane. Atma (God) will revel Himself in all His sportive forms there. The mystery of life and death will be solved. Then there will be Descent. In descent though an Avatar is God Himself but He will keep on seeing His own sports.

225)     “As  long  as  you  were  absent  in  the  meeting,  we  were  talking  about  you,

              but  with  your  arrival  and  appearance  all talks  about  you  stopped”

It is Samadhi. Life—power is transformed into Supreme Self.

226)     “After  attaining  Supreme  Self,  all  outward  devotional

              actions  of  the  devotee  are  dropped”

The mystery of life and death is solved. The illusory aspect of the creation is realised. So no more the game of illusion is played.

227)     “In a  congregational  sing  in  the  praise  live  of  God,  at  the  outset  a  man

              keeps  on singing---“Nitai (a devotee  of  Shri  Chaitanya)  is  a  mad  elephant,

              Nitai  is  a  mad  elephant”

It is but to have the transformation of life-power set in motion. The curd is going to be churned for butter; the life-power is in the course of transformation into God.

228)     “The  devotional  mood  deepens  and  the  singer  only

               utters---‘Elephant’, ‘Elephant’  (‘Hati’, ‘Hati’)”

The life-power is coursing her way between fifth and the sixth plane. The vocabulary power is also transformed; as to speak is part and parcel of life-power and it is almost lost.

229)     “In  the  end,  the  man  keeps  on  uttering  only

              one  syllable---‘Ha’ ---(‘Ele’  of  elephant)”

It is the entrance from the sixth plane to the seventh plane.

230)     “Then  the  singer  becomes  silent”

The life-power has entered the seventh plane and has been transformed into God. All outward functions of life are stopped.

        

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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 )

217)     “The  path  of  devotion  is  for  you.  It  is  the  easiest  course”

The seed of devotion is inherent in a man. He is born with it Spontaneously devotion comes out in a man. It is heredity.

218)     “The foremost  requirement  after  attaining  this  human  life  is  to

              get  more  love  and  more  devotion  for  the  lotus-feet  of  God”

The lotus-feet of God---is at the sixth plane. It is seen there. If one can fix and keep his mind in the sixth plane then he will be in continuous touch with divine life with a thrill of beatification.

219)     “To fathom  the  infinite  is  not  required”

A man wants to have a plunge in the Mississippi. It is not so required for him that He is to plunge at the source where Mississippi rises and to keep on floating till he meets the ocean. All that is required for him is to get a plunge in any place in the longest course of the Mississippi.

Infinity does not lie in the outside but it is within a man---the most wonderful and unfathomable creation of God. In the course of the transformation of life-power into God without form, the form the life-power is transformed into the geometrical point of Euclid (the great geometrician of the Greeks) and infinity lies beyond the point. It is a point about which Buddha spoke while he was interrogated on his death-bed. It is the great ‘Is’ (Asti) of the Vedas.

220)     “Even  the  very  least  attachment  to  the  sense  to  touch  with  the  body  for  which

              woman  and  gold  are  concomitant  factor’s  of  requirement  will fail  to  yield  the

              full  measure  of  God  from  the  body.  So  the  man  cannot  have  the  divine  sense 

              that  he  is  not  body  but  he  is  God”

If a single fibre of the body is damaged and if it be not in a full-fledged fresh condition then there will be no accumulation of God in full measure in the cerebrum or the seventh plane. If you want to buy a thing in full measure of then you have got to pay the cost in ratio. The full measure of body is between 24 and 25 years of age and the body must be really a strong built one. He must have full grace of God-the-preceptorbetween12 and 13 years of age. God-the-preceptor will teach him all the course of transformation of life-power into God and in course of time the signs of the transformation will be exhibited in the body as they will penetrate and come out from within to without. The five sheaths in the body will take their birth in succession and successive transformations and realizations will come upon spontaneously, then God in the body will be separated in toto and make you conscious that you are God and not body.

221)     “Attainment  of  complete  knowledge  is  not  for  the

             ‘Kalijuga’  (Lit  :  The  Iron  Age)”

In the present era life is sustained by food, that is, the body is physically unfit, a weakling. The Supreme Cult(Brahmavidya) is not meant for a weakling.

222)     “The  fifth  plane  has  its  seat  in  the  throat  (in  the  precess  of transformation  of  life-power).

              The  man  whose  mind  reaches  the  fifth  plane  becomes  free from  ignorance  and  animal  instincts  (anger, lust, etc.). He talks or  hears  only  about  God. If  anybody  talks  any  worldly affairs  before  him,  he  leaves  the  place  at  once”.

The above is the outward expression of his day’s life. The realization of the fifth plane runs thus :---

The seer will see himself that his body is transformed into half-woman and half-man. The lower portion is woman and the upper portion is man. The condition lasts for two to three minutes. It happens in broad daylight and the seer sees it. The form is called (Ardhanariswar)---“half-man and half-woman God”.

There is a second class realization of the form of “half-man and half-woman God”. The devotee sees the form in the body of his God-the-preceptor. His God-the-preceptor assumes this half-woman and half-man form and appears before the devotee.

The first class realization of the “half-man and half-woman God”comes upon the physical body of the devotee and the second class realization takes place in the inner body, made of God’s light. Of the devotee.

“The invisible and formless God in the body first assumes the form of “half-man and half-woman”---Shri Ramkrishna.