RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

MARCH --1882     

Place : -  Temple  of  Dakshineswar

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

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

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

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

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

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

In short, it is not acknowledge in the Vedas.

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

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

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

God alone is Sadhu or Perfect or Advaitam.

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

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

It is secondary. A man may feign it.

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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 )

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

482. “The common people cannot reckon them”.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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 )

The Master at the house of Joygopal Sen
November 28, 1883

(In the English translation of the Gospel of Sri Ramkrishna two chapters bearing the same date have been fixed together, whereas the ‘Yogic’ interpretation is done according to the Bengali Gospel and the difference is due to it).

478. “After attainment of God, the world does not appear impermanent to him any more”.

Attainment of God – To become God.

A man through internal evolution of Life Power attains Godhead; but it is purely spiritual. The attainer of God will be seen by thousands and thousands of members of the human race bearing testimony to the fact. Then attainment of God or Godhead is proved. Nay, it goes furthermore, it evinces that God is One internally in different forms and names and both running interlinked at the same time.

The data of seeing the Godhead within goes to prove (i) God is real, (ii) the human race is real, and (iii) the body of every human being is the pleasure-house of God as He manifests there in the shape of a person and that person is also identical with a living human being.

479. “Let you feed your kiddy thinking that you are feeding God”.

The first principal that runs in the under-current of the idea is called Sahajiya or the easy way to get God with form made of God’s Light. It is in the sixth plane. Everything is Brahma or God. My own child is also God. Let me start with it. Let the idea get matured, then spontaneously Yoga will grow in the body and it will create a form made of God’s Light. The form will be seen by you but not by others, save and except in the case where two men of the same plane meet. It is a stepping-stone to the entrance of the culture.

The idea has got five aspects and one of them is Vatsalya, i.e. to think and love God as one’s own baby.

It is cherished by a dualistic devotee towards God with form.

It has also got two ways – (i) in Ascent, and (ii) in Descent.

In Ascent – the example is ‘Gopal’ of Gopal’s mother or the revered Brahmin widow of Kamarhati. Gopal is the form of baby Krishna. She (the widow) by the grace of Thakur got her causal body transformed in the form of a child Krishna. The child used to come out from her body, played and beloved exactly like a living child – sometimes showing affection, sometimes demanding, sometimes distemper, sometimes teasing, sometimes serving etc. But this cannot give the Supreme Bliss.

It was the car festival in the house of Sri Balaram Bose. Thakur was invited and he came. Gopal’s mother was also invited and she arrived. After pleasing conversation with Thakur while she was going to the house she saw Swami Vivekananda.

At once she put the question to him, “Have I reached the goal”? When a devotee reaches the goal no such question in the form of doubt will appear. “After realization of Atman, there remains not an iota of doubt; or in other words, it eliminates any and every doubt”.

Atman is not yet seen by the mother of Gopal, so this doubt lingers in her mind.

Thakur got his Ramlala or the child Rama in Descent. In the Gospel of Sri Ramkrishna it is so spoken by Thakur that in Descent, God with form made of God’s Light may be seen and he quotes the instance in the life of Sukdeva.

Sukdeva was in the Nirvikalpa Samadhi. It was so ordained that Parikshit, the-then king as in Mahabharata, was to be tutored in the Supreme Cult by Sukdeva. Narada was sent to bring down the mind of Sukdeva from the higher plane to the lower plane. Narada came and commenced singing the religious lore of God – Hari. Sukdeva came down but while descending in the lower plane, he saw the form of God made of light. 

RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

MARCH --1882     

Place : -  Temple  of  Dakshineswar

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

473. “At nightfall the glow worm flees hither and thither and it thinks that it lights the world”.

It means the light of the candle as seen in the fourth plane. A devotee sees this and thinks with wonder, “What is this! What is this”!

474. “The stars appear in the sky”.

In the sixth plane when flashes of lights are seen.

475. “The moon rises”.

Moon – is the symbol of Bhakti.

She is seen in the cerebrum in Samadhi known as Chetan when consciousness remains from the neck to the seventh plane. Chetan is the name of the Samadhi in Bhakti-yoga.

476. “The sun rises”.

Sun – is the symbol of Knowledge – Jnana.

It is also seen in Samadhi when a man attains Brahma-Jnana.

477. “The moon fades and is no more seen”.

With the advent of Knowledge the Devotion vanishes.

“After seeing God there remains no ritualistic religion for the man”.

– Sri Ramkrishna

Ritualism is a part and parcel of devotion or Bhakti. A man starts with ritualism and stops there. No evolution follows.

To clarify, let us point out Thakur’s own life. In India, there were innumerable Kali-temples. Thakur was a worshipper, Pujari, in one temple. He came out of the temple being ‘One’, i.e. identical with the goddess of the temple. Why it did not so happen with other Pujaris – priests? Their start and finish remained the same.

RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

MARCH --1882     

Place : -  Temple  of  Dakshineswar

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

468. “While Arjuna was aiming at the target – the eye of a fish, his eyes were fixed on the eye of the fish and nothing else was in ken”.

It is an instance of Yoga taken from the great epic Mahabharata.

To shoot an arrow – means the motion of the Life Power, viz. Kundalini which shoots up in the Cerebrum like an arrow when she is awakened.

Target – is the center of the eyebrows.

Eye – is the third Eye lying latent beneath the eyebrow, It must be opened.

Fish – is the symbol of Atman.

469. “This state stops the breathing and Kumbhaka starts”.

Stopping of the outside breathing is an insignia of Kumbhaka. Kumbhaka keeps the body and mind in an equipoise state. It is an opportunity to the Life Power to shoot up in the cerebrum and to reveal new mystery of the human life.

470. “The insignia of the seer of God is that the Life Power rushes up from the lower zone to the seventh plane”.

Let somebody ask the seer of God, Have you seen God”? At once Mahavayu will start rushing up with great force to the cerebrum and the course of Mahavayu will be seen by the questioner and others to pass through the front side of the body. It writhes and vibrates the body and it will be observed by all those who are present there.

It is Brahma Vidya, the Supreme Culture. As soon as any specific characteristic of the culture will be heard its signs must be manifested on the body as they are concomitant factors. Otherwise, it is to be understood that the culture is not obtained.

471. “In this state, if Samadhi come upon the devotee, then he sees God”.

Mahavayu removes the cover of the cerebrum and God is seen.

“The wind shifts the layer of green scum of the tank aside and the water is seen”.

– Sri Ramkrishna

472. “In my uncle’s place the cowshed is filled with horses”.

Cow – is the symbol of animal passion. But the milch cow with a calf is the symbol of Avatar or Incarnation of God.

Horse – denotes motion and it is a symbol of awakened Life Power.

Life Power does not awake where there is animal passion. Incongruity does not give out the desired effect.

RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

MARCH --1882     

Place : -  Temple  of  Dakshineswar

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

465. “Fettered one is Jiva and freed from fetters is Siva”.

A fettered man is Jiva and this very man when freed from fetters is Siva.

Every ordinary man is a Jiva.

Who is this Siva?

Thakur while in a boat passing by the bathing platform of Manikarnika (name of the bathing platform on the Ganges) in Benares saw Siva standing on the river with all the graveness of the world. The image slowly came and merged in Thakur. Is this Siva? No.

It is but a reflection of the causal body of Thakur. This causal body within casts its reflection on the eye in the river bank and so Siva was seen by him. Nobody else on the bank or in the boat saw Siva.

This form of Siva was but an imagery.

Siva is He who brings ‘Unity in Diversity’?

How can this be achieved?

When a Jiva becomes Siva, this comes automatically. This Siva in the form of the very same Jiva will be seen by thousands and thousands of men, women, children and old men, even thieves, rouges, rascals and the vilest criminals included and they will announce the truth and the mystery of the human life as done in the Svetasvatara Upanishad by the ancient Rishis, “Thou art man, Thou art woman, Thou art boys, Thou art girls, Thou art the very old man tottering on the stick, and verily, Thou art the whole human race”.

This is Siva by establishing Oneness in the shape of a living person within every human being.

It exceeds the ‘Practical Vedanta’ as pointed out by Swami Vivekananda (vide the dialogue between the disciple and Swamiji in Vol. VII, page 161 of his Complete Works – Mayavati edition).

Truth is One. It concerns the human race and its proof will be borne by them.

466. “By an un-diverted devotion to God a man may get Bhakti”.

Even this devotion or Bhakti cannot be had without Yoga and that Yoga must be spontaneous.

467. “To attain ‘Pure Love’ in ecstasy to God is a rare thing”.

Bhakti is no more a devotion but now it is love and a pure one.

Nowhere in the Bhakti Sastras. i.e. in the scriptures dealing with devotion to and love of God, ‘Pure Love’ has been properly described. Only the popular idea and imagination have been set forth.

By Mahayoga ‘Pure Love’ can be asserted by transforming others into one’s own self in the spiritual world. A man becomes God. God is love. This love asserts itself by transforming in the spiritual world within any and every man by placing his own God-self in the shape of his own living person.

Yes, it is the highest manifestation of Pure Love which has never been evident in the annals of the world.

No, it was not established by any of the past teachers of the world such as Zoroaster, Moses, Buddha down to Ramkrishna.

Only it was announced in the ancient era of India – “I am one, but I shall be many”.

Though the announcement was made but it was left unrealized and unproved.

It is realized and proved now.

RELIGION AND REALIZATION BY DIAMOND PICKED UP IN THE STREET

MARCH --1882     

Place : -  Temple  of  Dakshineswar

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

459. “So long, the spring was under cover”.

The Life Power was in a dormant state but now she is awakened and rising up to the seventh plane.

460. “It is very hard to do good work without any selfish touch in it”.

No work can be done without any self-interest in it. It is but a self-deception and a false consolation that a good work is done without any self-interest in it. Yes, teachers like Buddha, Jesus, Sankar, Sri Ramkrishna taught the human race. But their case was absolutely different from others as they had God’s commandment.

461. “But after seeing God, a man may do good work being totally unselfish”.

This is a different kind of work. Work of this kind is done by the great teachers like Buddha, Jesus, etc. This is to kindle the thirst for God in a man. By Thakur also it is so done. It is to pass one’s day in the company of real devotees and to speak to them about God’s sportive forms as seen and realized in the body.

462. “Monks for their livelihood will depend absolutely upon God”.

Monks will be satisfied with whatever they get without any effort or self-exertion on their parts. But it is an old monkish course and it has been discarded by Thakur. He often said, “A clerk was sent to a jail. He was put in chains there. After sometime he was set free. He came out from the jail. Now, what would he do? Would he keep on cutting capers in the street? Certainly not. He would try and secure a clerk’s job somewhere and lead an ordinary simple life like others”. The parable means that a man after liberation leads an ordinary, simple and pure life. There is no special privilege for him as a liberated one. It is Brahma Vidya, the Supreme Culture and culture is for the sake of culture only.

Then what a real devotee will do for livelihood? He shall be earning his own livelihood in the best possible honest way.

Thakur at first was but a paid priest in the temple of Dakshineswar. Later on, he was pensioned. He used to say, “I live on pension”.

463. “They (monks) should not lay by for the morrow”.

No hoarding for the morrow. The father has taken the kiddy by the hand – no fear for a slip. The Father in the body will conduct your life in such way that there will be no accumulation for future but at the same time, you shall not be in want.

“A trained dancer dances in rhythm”.

 – Sri Ramkrishna

464. “Let love of God manifest within, work ceases concomitantly”.

True and real love to God cannot grow without being seen.

Faith may create an imitation of love but it fails to produce the desired effect.

Here ‘Love’ is Prema – a yogic term. It was seen in Sri Chaitanya who forgot the world and even his own dear body.

The yogic form of Prema as manifested in the body is described below:

When Mahavayu makes its course through the front side of the body and gets up into seventh plane and Samadhi follows it, then the following signs in the body are manifested and seen:

1. The breast heaves heavily.

2. The body writhes.

3. Like a rope the Mahavayu rises from the abdomen. “Prema is like a rope with which God is tied”.

– Sri Ramkrishna

This state is visible even to those men who sit near the attainer of Prema. Furthermore, whenever the attainer will like to have this state, it will come upon him and will be seen by others.