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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 )

 (390)                “Why does the Divine Mother ‘Shyama’ have a black complexion?”.

 “She looks black because she is seen far away”.

   It is spoken about meditation and in its first state a man sees utter darkness. Then as he    

   proceeds deeper and deeper, he finds God’s light and God.

 (391)               “Go near Her and no color will be found”.

 It is spoken about the Absolute---when there is no ego—consciousness.  

                   

       (392)               “You have to come back a few steps then you will see again the

                          Divine Mother ‘Shyama’ having the colour of the grass flower”.

The exquisitely beautiful young dancing lady who is seen in the sixth plane is known as the mysterious Maya.

(393)                “Is Shyama  male  or female”?  

Atma is one. There is no distinction of gender in Atma or God.

Atma is one. There is no distinction of gender in Atma or God.

(394)                “I am not yet able to find out whether Shyama is male or female”?

  

       Male and female---they have got one and the same Atma in them. So inwardly there is no    

       difference. Yes, there is but one Atma ; but go ahead and then you will find there is a tiny touch   

       of ego-consciousness in the form ‘Yea’.

(395)             “Brahma  is  Sakti---It  is Descent.

(396)             “Sakti  is  Brahma”---It  is  Ascent.

(397)            “They  are  but  one”.

 It is Absolute. Ascent and Descent are but two different aspects of the same and one Absolute.

(398)                           “Ever-blissful God (Satchidanandamay) and ever blissful sportive forms of God (Satchidandamayyee) are but two aspects of one and the same Absolute” 

Ascent with all its sportive forms of God is blissful. It terminates in Absolute. Then 

Descent comes and every state of it is full of Bliss. God is ever Blissful at every 

condition and realization of the body. It is called ‘from Absolute to His sportive forms and from

sportive from to ':Absolute’. Nitya to Lila and Lila to Nitya. Its Bliss is enjoyed only by Avatars

and none else.

     (399)                  “In conjunction with Atma (Purusha) the human body(Prakriti) performs all her

                                 activities of creation, preservation and destruction---Yogamaya”.

      This is God’s sports in the human body and it is Ascent.

      Creation means birth of Atma as seen in the seventh plane, i.e. life-power is transformed in

      Atma.

      Preservation is that when Atma holds the Universe within Him.

      Destruction is that condition when Atma turns into the Absolute.

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(384)                “Mother, why hast Thou given him only one-sixteenth part of the whole thing?

                          Yes, Mother, I understand it. One-sixteenth part will serve your purpose and that

                          will enable him to teach the people.”

 God within Thakur got Himself expressed in the form of one of his devotees in Thakur’s body. In that state thakur saw that one-sixteenth Part (KE Kala) of the cover of the cerebrum or the seventh plane in the body of the disciple got withdrawn and God expressed Himself thereon. So he was saying in this way to the Divine Mother. At the time while Thakur was talking with the Divine Mother, there were two of his devotees in the room. One was Reverend Brahmananda Swami or Rakhal Maharaj and the second one was Shri M or Mahrndra Nath Gupta, the author of the Gospel of Shri Ramkrishna. To all intent and purpose it transpires that it was spoken of Shri M . At it is self-evident that is ‘Gospal of Shri Ramkrishna’is a perpetual teacher to the human race.

(385)                 “Why did I make you angry ? Yes, it has got its own meaning”.

 Your spirit was kindled by your anger, and that might get more earnestness and yearning of God.

(386)                “I have found   *Hazra and he is like a piece of dry wood”.

 It means that Shri Hazra will not get emanation of God in the body during his life-time.

While Shri Hazra was on his death-bed, he saw that Thakur came to him. Hazra cried out, “Hush! Be silent, Paramhansa Mahasaya (Thakur) is come” and he expired.

*  Shri Pratap Chandra Hazra for sometimes lived in the temple of Dakshineswar and it was Thakur who gave him shelter there but he was an oppositionist to Thakur. 

(387)               “The display of God is enlivened by the oppositionist such as ‘Jatila and Kutila’”.

 It is the oppositionists who draw out more beauty and charm of the thing as if by fanning a fire.

(388)                           “He  who  holds the  Universe  in  Him”.

     It is Atma. The Universe is within Atma. It is so seen in the seventh plane. This is the fires stage of the mam who  attains special Knowledge. This is solving the mystery in relation with Man, God and the Universe.         

     (389)             “The lion, the carrier of the Divine Mother, ‘Jagadhatri’ (the Bearer of the

                             Universe), keeps the elephant under control”.

 Lion---represents self-exertion. 

 Elephant---represents mind. Mind is like a mad elephant. To control a mad elephant is very difficult ;  it is so with mind. So mind is compared with a mad elephant. Here it is spoken about attaining of God by self-exertion (Vividisha). Mind is to be controlled by self-exertion then there will be manifestation of God in the body.

The image of Jagaddhatri is in three parts. The first one is that of an elephant---mind. Above the        

elephant, the lion, an emblem of valour, i.e. self-exertion. Above lion, there is the image of      

Divine Mother holding the Universal aspect of God in a form of God or a goddess.

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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 )

(376)                                 “An ego of knowledge was kept in him (Sukdeva) by God”

This state is seen and realized by the devotee. He is in deep meditation, may, in Samadhi. In Samadhi he sees that an exquisitely beautiful and soothing lady, made of God’s light, very carefully, quietly and calmly approaches him on his back, spreads her arms and keeps her arms over the arms of the devotee. The touch of the lady is so much so soothing that it fills the devotee with ambrosia-like sweetness from head to foot. The lady merges herself in the body of the devotee and simultaneously it breaks open into the mind of the devotee---the lady representing ego of Knowledge (Vidya maya).

(377)               “I am  His servant, His devotee ; I am not the doer but He is the doer”.

It is but natured devotion in the state of Tattvajnan of ‘Knowledge of Thou’. Here ego is but a watery line in an ocean.

(378)               “I told him, ‘Why don’t you read befitting signs in a man and then accept

                    him as a Disciple?” Indiscrimination in making a disciple does not help

                    anybody in any way”.

Parikshit (the man is whose body God-the-preceptor appears) is the befitting man to listen Bhagavat---about the display of God in the human body---as realization, at least in a certain extent, will follow; otherwise there will be no realization at all. One cannot be a Parikshit without attaining God-the-Preceptor in him. They are also reckoned as Parikshit whom God shows to Sukdeva---“Well, all these are real devotees and they shall be coming in contact with you.” It was so shown by the Divine Mother to Thakur and Thakur saw them long before they came in each other’s contact. It is also essential on the part of the devotee to get Thakur as God-the-Preceptor. In that event there will be no faltering in the devotee. “The father has taken charge of the son”.    

(379)                “Keshab (Keshab Chandra Sen, Leader of the Brahma Samaj in India)        

                           acknowledged the Divine Mother ‘Kali’ (Primal Force---).”

Through the grace of Thakur, Keshab saw the Divine Mother Kali.

(380)                “Bhagavat, Devotee and God---the trio. They are same and one.”

“God manifests and expresses Himself in the body. In whose body He manifests, he hears God in him and he is the devotee. And narration of God’s display in the body is Bhagavat.

(381)               “Preceptor (Guru) God with form (Krishna) and the devotee (Vaishnaba)”.   

Preceptor---is the invisible and unattached God lying pervading the body both in the inside and also in the outside of the body. The invisible God comes down within the body with a human form, made of God light.

(It is Krishna or Jesus or God-the-Preceptor). He who bears this God with form is a devotee. The man who is blessed with God-the-Preceptor, gets realizations both in Ascent and Descent. Of course, there is a variation in the degree of realization. In a big receptacle, the manifestation is in  full degree and in a small one, it yields but a taste only.

(382)                “It is very hard to go beyond the three attributes of

                    Creation, Preservation, and Destruction (Triguna)”.

It means to live after full liberation of God from the body and also after attainment of the Supreme knowledge (here ascent ends ; in other words, it is to live in Descent which happens only in case of an Avatar or incarnation of God.

(383)                “Without attaining God in the body this condition does not come”.

God or Atma as shown by God-the-Preceptor in the seventh plane is to be seen and attained ; then and then aloner a man can go beyond the three attributes and get merged in the First Cause.

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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 )

(369)                    “He who attains the Absolute cannot come back

                        to give out the revelation”.

The man in whose body the Primal Power is transformed into God, the Absolute, gets Sthitha Samadhi and collapse.

(370)                    “A man becomes speechless, keeps on making the sound of

                       ‘ha, ha, ha, ha’; and takes a jump into the pit”.

Speechless---means the state of Samadhi---transforming into God.

Ha, ha, ha, ha---means being transformed into sound Nada and going above it by penetration . It is very easily tested. If a man has got this state then let you speak about the penetration of sound (Nada-Ved) before him, then at once his head will keep on swinging backward and forward on his neck. It is manifestation of the Supreme Cult over the body. No sooner it will be heard it will express itself in its special aspect on the body.

Take a jump into the pit---means changed into God, the Absolute. The human body collapses.

(371)                 “Jarabharat (a sage) and Dattatreya (a sage) got transformed into

                     Brahma but could not come down to give information about him”.

Though Jarabharta and Dattatreya got their mind eradicated of the egoism and transformed into the Supreme Knowledge, yet ego-consciousness in toto was not extinct. So there was no Descent (avataran) in them and they could not relate about the sportive forms of God (Bhagawat) in the body like Sukdeva.

(372)                         “Not only mind will be effaced but ego-consciousness will be extinct also”.

To attain the Supreme Knowledge both mind and ego-consciousness will annihilate and then it will take place in full measure. It means Sthitha Samadhi and nothing can be spoken of it, Only Avatars can come out in Descent.

(373)           “Sukdeva saw and touched the ocean of Brahma”

Sukdeva had only a teste of the Supreme Knowledge.

(374)            “He did not get down and dive into it”.

He did not get Shitha Samadhi.

(375)             “Sukdeva had to speak out the sportive forms of

                 God as seen and realized by him to Parikshit”.

Parikshit (a mythological king of the holy epic Mahabharata)---means a tried one. He is Parikshit who has got God-the-preceptor in him, i.e, when there is emanation of God in the body. It establishes for certain that he is the fit man to learn and realize (though partially) the sportive forms of God; but, of course, it is merely and simply God’s grace.

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 )

(363)                     “Gold lies latent in Vidyasagar.  Had he but the least scent of gold in him, then in his all outward activities would have reduced, nay, but stopped together,”

Gold---represents  Atma  or  God.

If there is manifestation of God in full measure in the seventh plane, then there remains no outward activity. Thakur used to say, “Yes, I shall be eating, I shall be sleeping and I shall be simply existing (carrying on one’s existence for the sake of existence only). But if he is found to do anything else, it is to be understood that he is forced to do so by God’s commandment. And this work consists only in singing the glory of God as seen by him in his body in the process of transformation of life-power into the Supreme Bliss.

(364)                         “In  the  end,  every  activity  stops”.

It is to attain the condition of the Absolute.

(365)                         “kindness  bears  equal  love  for  every  created  being”.

 It means to be one and same with the whole Universe. An episode in Thakur’s life will clear it. Thakur was in his room in the temple of Dakshineswar. In the bathing platform on the bed of the Ganges there ensued a quarrel between two boatmen. One boatmen gave a good slap on the back of another boatman. The latter cried out and along with his cry, Thakur in his room, though he had no knowledge of the occurrence, cried out in equal pitch.  

The noise of the cry was so much that Shri Hridaya (nephew of Thakur) heard it, came into the room and saw the mark of five fingers on the back of Thakur. Shri Hridaya was in wrath. He could not squeeze out any cause from Thakur who was silent. Shri Hridaya ran hither and thither about the occurrence and saw the boatman with marks of five fingers on his back. He was simply amazed and came back into Thakur’s room.

This is to be one and same with the Universe and this is kindness. I do love but myself and here ‘myself’  identical with the Universe. But this state does not last for ever and happens when the mind comes down to the fourth plane. This is not ‘Universalism’. It is tasted once in the life of a devotee and then it passes away.

(366)                   “But Brahama is beyond the three attributes oCreation,  Preservation and  Destruction”.

The three attributes, (Triguna) of Preservation (Sattva), Creation (Rajas) and Destruction (Tamas) are manifested in the activity of a man’s life. A man’s activity is coloured with one of the three attributes and by its colour the activity is recognized and read. God, the Absolute, is beyond any kind of activity.

(367)                   “He  is  beyond  Primal  Power”.

Primal power has been transformed into God, the Absolute. It is to be changed into the First Cause or Great Cause.

(368)                  “These  three  attributes  Triguna  are  but  robbers”.

When there is a robber, there is a master house. The master of the house is God. The robber has got no right or claim over the house. He is but a false personnel and he is identical with illusion (Maya). Maya means that which does not exist. Attribute is like a colour and Maya, by this false attribute, declares her existence as real. Maya is also a transitory aspect 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 )

(357)               “Padmalochan though a devotee in the Path of ‘Knowledge’

                  (Jnani), yet, respected me like anything inspite of my repeating

                   Before him ‘Oh Divine Mother, Oh Divine Mother!”

Padmalochan, a great Sanskrit scholar, a big Pundit, did not see Atma or God. So he was not a man of Knowledge Gyani. He was a devotee. Furthermore, he was a learned man ; as such, he tried to get God by discrimination, and that cannot be done.

(358)                   “When he (Padmalochan) heard* Ramprosad’s song from me,

                        tears rolled down his cheeks in devotion”.

These tears of Padmalochan bore the testimony that he was a devotee. He was a lucky and blessed man as he came in contact with Thakur and heard the name of the Divine Mother from Thakur. Thakur’s utterance of ‘Mother’ brought a flood of devotion in Padmalochan ; so tears rolled down his cheeks.

*  Ramprasad of Bengal was a real devotee and  

made many devotional songs. His songs are very

popular like that of Italian Tasso.

(359)                      “Once Padmalochan was asked to decide which of the two deities,

                           Siva or Brahma, was the greater ? With a child’s simplicity he said,

                          “I do not know, Neither I, nor my ancestors back to the fourteenth

                            generations have ever seen Siva or Brahma”.

Padamalochan had no knowledge of the Causal body (Bhagabati Tanu). It is this Causal body in the sixth plane which takes the human shape made of God’s light appears before a devotee and talks with him. A devotee sees and hears Him or Her. In case of a superior receptacle this Causal body takes various forms of gods and goddesses, Avatars, saints etc. It helped one to understand that the very same causal body is changed into various forms. “He is blessed who was come to know the mystery of One changing into many”.

                                                                                                                    ----     Shri Ramkrishna

(360)                    “Ah  poor  me!  I  do  not  know .

                         But  I  do  relish  ‘Woman  and  Gold”.

Thakur’s body renounced ‘Woman and gold’. It was a spontaneous renunciation and not by practicing any spiritual discipline or self-exertion. If this mystery of renunciation is spoken out it cannot be understood by an ordinary man. So he evaded explaining the cause.

(361)                     “When he got back partial consciousness he began to

                          utter only ‘Ka’, ‘Ka’ (The first two letters of ‘Kali)’.

There was a tremendously vain Pundit (a learned scholar in Sanskrit). He did not believe in God with forms.

      God revealed Himself as Primal Power to the Pundit. He saw Kali and lost consciousness. When         he regained partial consciousness he commenced uttering ‘Ka’, ‘Ka’, ‘Ka’. Such happens with             one when he sees God with form, made of God’s light, for the first time.

      The scene was in the temple of Dakshineswar at the foot * Panchavati.

      Latu Maharaj (afterwards Swami Adbhutananda, a disciple of Thakur) was lying senseless on his       back. Thakur with on e of the feet was rubbing Latu’s breast and said, “Be quiet and silent ; you         have got a very poor drinking capacity. You have seen divine Mother, ‘Kali’, so you are wailing         and shouting like this. Be quiet”.

     * Five trees of different species clustered together. It is looked upon a holy and befitting place for        meditation and prayer. Panchavati is an outward symbol of Muladhar with five different currents,        named---(i) Ida, (ii) Pingala, (iii) Sushumna, (iv) Chitra, and (v) Vajrani—in the human body.               These currents make their way through the spine into the cerebrum when Kundalini or life-power        is awakened. Muladhar is the resting place of the life-power and it situates between the sexual            organ and the anus.

 (362)                    “Vidyasagar (the then Principal of the Sanskrit College in Calcutta and the most learned Sanskrit scholar of the time) has both scholarship and kindness ; but he lacks in inner sight”.

The sight is scattered in the outer world. It is to be collected and kept confined in the body. Then the third eyein the sixth plane will be opened and the vista of divine knowledge will appear.

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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 )

(352)                         “These people are Vedantists. They always keep on discriminating----God

                                    alone is real and the world is illusory”.

 It is not by discrimination but by realization alone that one can attain such stage when he says that God alone is real and the world is illusory. To attain this stage one has to realize all these stages and conditions--- 

(1)        God  is  in  the body.

(2)        There will be a spontaneous liberation of God from the body.

(3)         God will be seen in human form made of God’s light.

(4)         Then He will be seen and shown as Atma in the seventh plane by God-the-Preceptor.

(5)         Then the Universe will be seen within Atma or God.

(6)         This Universe within God will be seen to be transformed into a Seed

(7)          This Seed in its turn will be transformed into a Dream.

These are all the sportive forms of God. A devotee sees all these sportive forms, realizes all these states, and his angle of vision changes by these realizations and the world appears illusory like a dream to him.

“If Atma or God unfolds Himself then all these sportive forms are seen.---Shri Ramkrishna. If God reveals His real Self then this stage that ‘the Universe is illusory like a dream’ is attained. “If God needs it then a man is blessed with the Supreme Knowledge.”---Shri Ramkrishna. Thakur was blessed with all these realizations but it was not with Totapuri Maharaj, the Vedantist Preceptor of Thakur. No such  unfoldments took place either in Totapuri or in Sankar. Even in case of all other incarnations of God, all these unfolldments, did not happen.

(353)       “If the world is illusory as a dream then you too are illusory like a dream;

                  the speaker and his speech are both alike illusory and but dreams”.

This state is rapidly followed by no-ego-consciousness, i.e. Sthitha Samadhi when the body collapses. Only Avatars, incarnations of God, come down from this state. Then follows ‘Knowledge of Thou’.

not by practicing any spiritual discipline or self—exertion. If this mystery of renunciation is spoken imagination on their part.

 (354)          “It is a very tall talk to speak out that the

                     Universe is illusory like a dream”.

By self—exertion, this stage that ‘the Universe is illusory’ cannot be attained. It is but a fictitious

remains at least a little ash”

                        Wood---represents human body”.

When wood is burnt---means real manifestations and realizations of God in the five sheaths and the unfoldment and revelation of Atma in His real Self.

Ash---represents ‘Knowledge of Thou’ Tattagyan. One’s ego is burnt; then comes ash, that is, ‘Thou’. It is termed ‘devotion in matured state’ Paka Bhakti. This is succeeded by Descent as in an incarnation of God or Avatar. Then this man gets the capacity of seeing ‘God, illusion, living beings and the Universe’---all together in their inter-related and inter-linked condition. He and he alone is in a position to say that the world is but an illusion; but he seldom does as he is fully aware that every aspect is but different aspect of God. On the contrary he says that the world is real too. Thakur often used to say, ‘The world is but God’s pleasure-house”.

(355)             “It is like camphor, when burnt nothing remains”.

Camphor---represents Atma. In an ordinary man if Atma unfolds His real Self then the body collapses within 21 days. But it seldom happens.

(356)             “When wood is burnt there remains at least a little ash”

Wood  -  represents human body.

When wood is burnt  -  means real manifestations and realizations of God in the five sheaths and the unfoldment and revelation of Atma in His real Self.

Ash  -  represents “knowledge of Thou” Tattagyan. One’s ego is burnt; then comes ash, that is, “Thou”. It is termed “”Devotion in matured state” - ;Paka Bhakti;. This is succeeded by Descent as in an incarnation of God or Avatar. Then this man gets the capacity of seeing ; God, illusion, living beings and the Universe; all together in their inter-related and inter-linked condition. He and he alone in a position to say that the world is but an illusion; but he seldom does so as he is fully aware that every aspect is but different aspect of God. On the contrary he says that the world is real too. Thakur often used to say,”The world is but God’s pleasure-house.”