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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 )

409. “An unknown man whom the child has never seen before, appears and says, ‘Well, come along with me, I shall be taking you to your mother’. The child will accompany him and the child will be taken on shoulder by the unknown man”.

It is an instance of a child who in his play has forgotten everything. After sometime, the child is satiated with his play, nay, he becomes disgusted with his play. He feels a keen yearning to go to his mother.

Mother – God – the Absolute.

Child – I or ego.

God-the-Preceptor – God with form (Saguna Brahma).

Child represents any and every man in the world. Being forgetful of his real self he keeps on holding a chase after illusion. He seeks and runs after something but he does not know what it is. He gets himself disgusted. Then he turns towards God and feels a great yearning for Him. At this turning point God, out of grace, appears before the man as God-the-Preceptor. This God-the-Preceptor is an unknown man and he will take the man on His shoulder.

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

– Sri Ramkrishna

It is seen.

The Master with Sri ‘M’ and other devotees

At Dakshineswar Temple

August 19, 1883

410. “It relates about Knowledge of the Self”.

Knowledge of the Self is divided into two parts. One is Ascent and the other is Descent. Ascent has two aspects:–

(1) God with attributes.

(2) God without attributes.

A devotee in the process of transformation of Life Power becomes identical with Atman. This is the first aspect of Ascent. The second aspect is the state of no-ego-consciousness. A devotee of an ordinary type (Jivakoty) does not come down. He gets Maha Nirvana or melts into the First Cause. It is called liberation in the true sense of the term.

In spite of getting melted in the First Cause if a devotee comes down in Descent then starts ‘Grand force of Life Power’ – Mahavayu and ‘Grand transformation of Life Power – Mahayoga. This is the stage which has been described and compared by Thakur as a paddy-field from where crops have been harvested and ‘a locality which is flooded with deep water’. At this stage a devotee sees Param (Grand) Atman. This seeing of Paramatman happens long before realization of Divine Consciousness (Chaitanya) which flares up in a brilliant red light in the seventh plane. But all these realizations happen with Avatars only.

411. “I am Grand Atman or Paramatman”.

There is a certain sect who repeats this thing; not that they have attained this stage but they simply keep on repeating. On their part it is pure and simple imagination. Because the man who is blessed with this realization gets his angle of vision changed and becomes a right royal devotee in these five forms viz.: –

(i) a servant to God;

(ii) a friend to God; 

(iii) father or mother to God;

(iv) a lady-love of God; or,

(v) absolute quietness.

But mere repetition ‘I am Paramatman’ does not help one to attain this state.

412. “They are Vedantists”.

Vedantists are they who realize God in the seventh plane in five different sportive forms, viz.: –

(1) God as shown by God-the-Preceptor.

(2) God holding the Universe within Him.

(3) God-the-Universe changed into a Seed.

(4) Seed in its turn changed into a Dream.

(5) Dream Vanishes.

... What remains nobody knows and the ego-consciousness has been merged into the Great Cause. These Vedantists are seekers of liberation or Maha Nirvana. They get only realizations of Ascent and they do not know anything of Descent.

413. “This is the idea entertained by the sanyasis or monks”.

Who is a Sanyasi?

Sanyasi – means one who has given up everything. In short, this human body is the only property which a man has got. To give up everything means that he will realize that he is identical and one with God. To have this stage there will be an emanation of God in full measure from the body. It means separation of body and God. Its manifestation will come physically.

This transformation of Life Power has got its own singular sign. No sooner separation of God from the body will be heard by him, his neck will keep on moving from right to left and left to right and in its course it will be making sound like that of a dried betel-nut in a shell or a dried coconut in a shell. Without this special yogic sign a man cannot be a true Sanyasi or ‘given up-of all’.

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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 )

400. “The roof is made of the same materials – brick, lime and brick-dust – with which the staircase is made”.

Absolute in one form is this human body and this human body in another form is Absolute.

401. “Mere reasoning? I spit on it! I do not need it”.

It is to attain God by mere reasoning and it does not bear any effect. It is useless and absurd.

“God cannot be attained by intelligence (na medhaya)”.

– The Vedas

402. “Thou art I and I am Thou”.

It is to be identical with God when God is with attributes. In absolute state there remains nothing to relate.

403. “Thou art Thou”!

It is Tattvajnan or ‘Knowledge of Thou’.

404. “It is God’s Power (Sakti) which descends in a man and makes him an Avatar or incarnation of God”.

Power in the form of light of consciousness (Chaitanya) comes down from the seventh plane. It is so seen. At first this light comes down up to the neck or the fifth plane. Then it is seen to come down from the cerebrum up to the waist. This is manifestation in full measure and establishment of Iswarkoty i.e. establishment of God up to the waist. In other words, God in Descent manifests and establishes Himself up to the waist and thereby makes him an Iswarkoty. And finally this power takes the manikin form of devotee, clasps his hands and prays aloud. This is called Manusratan or Avatar.

405. “According to the school of realization, two waves from the sea of ‘red flame consciousness’ (Chaitanya as seen in the seventh plane in Descent) came down in ‘Rama’ and ‘Krishna’ and made them Avatars”.

It is so happens with every Avatar. It is Bhakti Sastra. It has its origin in the Dravidian and the Semitic religion – religion of emotion and devotion.

It is the greatest manifestation and realization of God in the human body. This realization appears in Decent. Thakur by saving that there are numerous Avatars clearly expresses that it is the greatest aspect of realizations.

406. “Advaita”

It is the state of Non-Dualism. It has got two aspects. One is with attributes and the other without any Attribute – Absolute.

When God is seen the seventh plane, the seer becomes identical with the thing seen and gets himself transformed into “I am He”. This is the first aspect and here God is with attributes. Then at the end in the absolute state it is also Advaita and nothing can be said about it. Here Ascent ends.

407. “Chaitanya”

It is Divine Consciousness which flares up in brilliant red light in the seventh plane as seen in the second stage of Descent.

408. “Nityananda”

It is the perpetual flow of the Divine Bliss which pervades and runs through the body in continuous succession. This Nityananda state has got two aspects. They are: –

(1) There is a continuous flow of Divine Bliss in the body.

(2) Let you remember the state of Nityananda and the volume of flow of the Divine Bliss will get increased. It is the Supreme Culture; – remember it and it appears in the body.

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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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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.