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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

– Sri Ramkrishna

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

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

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

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

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

Ocean – is God, the ocean of Bliss.

River – is Life Power.

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

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

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

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

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

Who is a man of knowledge?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

– Sri Ramkrishna

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sreemati – represents this body and ultimately Life Power.

Sri Krishna – is Atman – God.

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

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

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

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421. “Sreemanta was a great devotee”.

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

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

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

– Sri Ramkrishna

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

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

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

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

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

– Sri Ramkrishna

Here the child has no fear to have a fall.

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

Pitcher – represents human body.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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419. “Near the tank, I (Sri Ramkrishna) got my inward self spontaneously transformed into God (Samadhi) and though I did not see the Goddess Mrinmoyee before, but I saw Her there up to the waist”.

How could it happen?

It is a feature of realization in the domain of Vedanta.

Thakur’s body was a perfect barometer which exhibited realizations so far solving the mystery in connection with God (Iswar), Illusion (Maya), Living Beings (Jiva), and the Universe (Jagat) and he used to see all these four things simultaneously and in a linked condition. Thakur had God in him. The Universe was in God. It was God-the-Universe – one of the greatest sportive forms of God. In the outside he came nearby to the temple of the Divine Mother Mrinmoyee to show that the outward Universe and the Universe in God within Thakur were the same and one. God manifested himself with the form of the Divine Mother Mrinmoyee in him. The outward Universe was but a reflection of the Universe in God within Thakur, or ‘I’ or ego. So far, it was in Ascent. But again in Descent this outward Universe was real and an aspect of God. Both the features were but different aspects of God. In the ‘Gospel of Sri Ramkrishna’, Sri ‘M’, the author, an earnest and real devotee of Thakur made this remark, “Well, he (Thakur) did not give away the Universe by declaring that it was an illusion; on the contrary, he declared that the Universe was real”.

Similar realization like the Divine Mother Mrinmoyee came upon Thakur, while he had been in Navadwip – a holy place in Bengal. Throughout the length and breadth of the locality he had not a bit of realization manifested in his body. He wondered, how could it be? Was it not the place where Sri Chaitanya and Sri Nityananda had been? But after all no iota of realization came upon him. Then he came to the bank of the Ganges (river) and boarded a boat there. He was yet in a standing posture when all on a sudden he cried out, “They are coming down, they are coming down upon me”! and he got Samadhi. Afterwards he related that he boarded the boat, stood on the deck and saw that the forms of Sri Chaitanya and Sri Nityananda made of God’s Light with an aura in a circular shape around their faces and heads came down upon him and vanished. By this realization he came to the conclusion that this was the locality where Sri Chaitanya and Sri Nityananda had been living and then in the course of time, the locality was absorbed by the Ganges.

But of course, this realization took place within Thakur. In Vishnu Dhyan or meditation known as Vishnu, when half of the mind was within and half of the mind was in the outside, it appeared that he saw this in the outside. But it was not so. Had it been in the outside then it would have been seen by one and all.

420. “But Kaluvira was the most favorite of the Divine Mother”.

(Kaluvira was a hero in one of the epics of Bengal.)

The most favorite – means that God in Kaluvira manifested in a greater degree in comparison with other men of the era. 

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414. “I am but sky”.

It is spoken of void zone or no-ego-consciousness state. In the state there remains no ego to speak out this thing. Only in Descent a devotee may say so. But it is a rare thing. Otherwise it means pure imagination.

415. “Let one continually repeat, ‘I am freed from the bondage of the body’. ‘I am freed from the bondage of the body’, then he shall be merged in the First Cause”.

This is the force of habit. By repetition, the tongue will come in touch with palate and this continuous contact will yield Yoga and thereby God may be liberated from the body if He likes and the man at the time of his death may melt in the First Cause.

In the lifetime of one does not get the body and soul separated like sword and scabbard, i.e. liberation in its true sense and also the perpetual Bliss (Nityananda) in his body, then the life is not worth living; nay furthermore, it is a burden and failure. To get salvation at the time of death is but a poor consolation.

416. “Yes, there I saw face of the Goddess, Singhabahini (Lit. Whose mount is lion) and the face was smeared with and radiating a divine light”.

This divine light came out from Thakur’s eyes. It often happens with a devotee that he finds that his object of sight is smeared with divine light. It is called Vishnu Dhyan or meditation by fixing the mind on the tip of the nose – half the mind is in the outside and half the mind is in the inside. In fact, he sees his own inside by half the mind and transfers the inward reflection of the other half. The other half of the mind is in the outside and the reflection is seen in the outside.

417. “One must acknowledge the Divine Presence in the image”.

Nay, a true devotee not only admits and sees the Divine Presence in an image but when his Life Power rises in the fourth plane, he finds that everything in the outside is smeared with Divine Light as Thakur saw in the temple of Goddess Kali – the Divine Mother.

418. “Well, I smelt the scent of the spices called ‘Abatha’ when I approached the tank there. I had no idea that the women devotees offer ‘Abatha’ to the Goddess, Mrinmoyee”.

Mrinmoyee is another name of the Divine Mother. It so happened with Thakur while he had been in a certain locality called Vishnupur. There was a big tank near the temple of Mrinmoyee. Near the tank he smelt the scent of Abatha though he had no previous knowledge.

Not that it will happen with one and all, but it is a special feature in the transformation of the Life Power which is possible with Thakur. Both outside and the inside in Thakur are becoming one. Furthermore, in the process of transformation of the Life Power, some devotees get smell of sweet scent.

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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’.