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 )

512. “Please, don’t be saying so. It rests with personal taste and also it depends upon the capacity of the stomach to digest. A fish is brought and the mother cooks variously suiting the stomach of her children. For some she cooks pilau, but it is only for the strong stomach. For children with weak stomach is fish soup. Again, fried fish for some and pickled fish for some”.

Personal taste and capacity – They bespeak mental inclinations – the effect of the previous birth; it may be it may be compared with intuition.

Stomach – innate capacity of the body.

Fish – Atman.

Mother – gross human body.

Cooking – the process of yoga.

Children – the whole human race.

Fish pilau – the realization of the Vedanta.

Fish soup – emotional and devotional religion of the Dravidian and Semitic cultures – known as Bhakti.

The saying of Sri Chaitanya should be remembered – “The soup of the cat–fish”.

Fried fish – The rational way of thinking and discussion for attainment of Knowledge – Jnana-swarup (Form) Brahma.

Pickled fish – It is realization of Rasha (ambrosia).

Bhava in Ascent becomes Rasha in Descent. The cerebrum has got thousand-petal lotus but abdomen (the berth of Rasha) has a million-petal lotus. Life Power rises in the seventh plane and it comes down in Descent to the abdomen. It is seen by others. The outward manifestation is that the body swings right and left. In other words, it is demonstrative. Both Sri Radha of Vrindavan and Sri Chaitanya of Navadwip had this Rasha. Ramprasad says in his song, “He whose body swings in ecstasy is seated on the lap of Mother”.

Our experience has taught us that the above program chalked out by Thakur for various kinds of people of different categories is changed now. The Mahayoga has done away with the previous rules and bindings of the past era as ‘Diamond’ is seen by one and all irrespective of any bar. Everyone has got strong stomach and belongs to the same category and there are no different categories as specified in the metaphor. The music goes on in one tune and that is – “All is One” in the spiritual world. Man is Brahma and there is no other else. It is so evinced by the Mahayoga.

13. “The Rishis (sage of the past) pursued Knowledge (Jnana)”.

It is the Aryan culture – spontaneous evolution of the Life Power.

“Siva is coming out piercing the earth”.

– Sri Ramkrishna

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 )

508. “The typhoid will be cured”.

When a man thinks that he is body made of flesh and blood he is a typhoid patient in delirium.

When God-the-Preceptor will show you God in the cerebrum and merges into it, then the sense grows that you are not flesh-and-blood-body and you are cured. It is the only remedy.

509. “He is the master of His will”.

Everything takes place spontaneously and not by exertion. It is the fundamental principle of the spiritual world and the mystery of the human life.

It is Vidwat and not Vividisha.

It was so endorsed by the Rishis in the Upanishads and it so stands now.

“A leaf of a branch on a tree flutters in the breeze as it is so willed by God”. – Sri Ramkrishna

The Master’s Birthday Ceremony

At Dakshineswar

March - 11, 1883

510. “A holy man (Sadhu) must be far away from woman”.

It is a warning to the holy man. This Individualism in the Vividisha is so stiff and one-sided.

But in Universalism the question of woman does not arise at all.

Thousands of women see ‘Diamond’ within their own bodies and it announces that in the spiritual world there is no man or woman but ‘Diamond’ – God alone. With God no question of male or female arises.

511. “There all drown”.

Yes, it is an idea in Vividisha where self-mortification rules supreme. It has its origin in the non-Aryan and Dravidian religions. In Vividisha self-mortification has taken the place of renunciation. Self-mortification and renunciation are identical. This renunciation of the Sanatan Dharma or the Aryan religion comes spontaneously. God manifesting in the body will conduct the life of the aspirant in such a way that the question of woman will never arise.

No woman folk comes to ‘Diamond’, but they see Him without coming; it is simply to announce the greatness of the Mahayoga as it was unknown. Yes, it speaks how puissant is the Mahayoga. 

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 )

504. “An ant had been to a hillock of sugar. Did it need the whole hillock? A grain or two of sugar was sufficient”.

It is so spoken by Thakur of the Jivakoty or ordinary man.

Ant – is the symbol of Jivakoty.

Hillock of Sugar – the seventh plane.

An ordinary man reaching the seventh plane merges in it and does not return. Such a case has not yet been seen or heard of in our experience.

With us, we are ‘One’ in the spiritual world as it has been so declared by thousands comprising men, women, old, youths, children – the age varies from 92 to 4 years. As such, no question of Jivakoty or Iswarkoty arises here.

The greatest blunder which is made in the dualism is the creation of Jivakoty and Iswarkoty. This distinction between man and man in the atmic sphere is but a false data. In the Universalism Diamond is seen by one all proving the data ‘Thou art All’. The question of Jivakoty and Iswarkoty does not arise.

505. “Ours is the case of typhoid”.

A typhoid patient gets delirium. His idea in the brain runs amok. When a man thinks that he is the ‘body’ he is under delirium; whereas, in fact, he is Atman and to have it finished with the declaration of Jajnavalkya, the Rishi or sage of Brihad-Aranyaka Upanishad to Usasta (the other sage), “Your soul is the inner self of all beings”.

Typhoid is really cured when a living man attains Brahmahood and becomes ‘Universalle-La’-Homme”.

506. “Like disease, like remedy”.

The only remedy of the disease is to take shelter at the lotus feet of God. These feet are seen. It is a convalescent condition. The typhoid may relapse. The safety zone is the seventh plane where again these feet are seen. It is called Parama Pada, the highest stage.

An aspirant may come down to the lower stage from the sixth plane but if he obtains the stage Parama Pada then there is no slip.

Parama Pada is the symbol of Paramatman or the Universal Atman in an individual aspirant.

But when one is actually transformed into Paramatman or Universal Atman or Self and he must be a man alive, then he will be seen by thousands within their own bodies. Now Buddha or Jesus or Ramkrishna is seen within; it is but Brahmalin condition; that is, they are merged in Brahma – a living man, and Thakur’s ‘Ma’ and ‘Ra’, God and the Universe within as realized, explains the things.

507. “Your entire responsibility will be His and He shall see to it”.

God in the form of God-the-Preceptor will appear within the body, i.e. as Satchidananda Guru and everything else will follow. The form of God-the-Preceptor should be the form of a living man and that is the best.

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 )

502. “He effaces ego in one or two”.

In the era of Thakur we find one, and that is Thakur and the term two is used simply to denote humility.

“A ghost cannot seek out a comrade”. – Sri Ramkrishna

Ghost – is Brahmajnani, i.e. he is no more a man made of five elements, but he is Atman.

Atman - is One and there is no comrade for Him.

This is in case of an individual realization.

But in the Universalism it bears a different character and proof.

A man becomes Brahma. He is seen by thousands; nay, he is in every human being somewhere manifested, and in others – though they are the majority – in an un-manifested condition. When a man is one with all the living men in his inner self, the egoism automatically collapses. Egoism has its birth from the sense of difference and many.

503. “Nobody can really know God”.

God has innumerable attributes – some are known but the majority is unknown. We know God with attributes but God without attributes (Nirguna Brahma) is not known and unfathomable.

“No discourse can be held with Nirguna” – Sri Ramkrishna

The great Swami Vivekananda pointed out, “Where there is evolution there is involution”.

Yes, involution at the time of birth but enfoldment of the Life Power is evolution and this Life Power gives out more knowledge (Jnana) as it advances along with time.

As for instance, Thakur is the first man in the arena of the world to point out that to see God and attainment of Godhead are the sole aim of this human life; whereas, all the past teachers of the world give out moral codes for leading pious and holy life. As for Buddha, Nirvana is not in the lifetime, but at the time of death.

Attainment of God means to become God and its proof will be borne by thousands.

In the Upanishad it is declared “I am Brahma”, but no proof is set up; nay, it goes further and declares “I am All”. But it is declared by one and not by thousands. It failed to set up any proof.

It is Universalism which bears proof and not Individualism.

A man becomes God and there is no other God anywhere else; rather everything else in relation to God is but pure imagination. He is One and One only, and this Oneness as experienced by thousands taking place with Diamond is the only attribute. It is so endorsed in the Vedas – Ekam Sat – Sa Ekah.

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 )

500. “From the involution (Absolute) to the evolution (Phenomenal world) and again from the evolution to the involution”.

From the involution to the evolution – It means seeing of Atman in the cerebrum and then to see the Universe within this Atman.

From the evolution to the involution – It means transformation of the big Universe into a Seed and Seed into a Dream and then the Dream is succeeded by no-ego-existence. It is individual and a rare one.

There is another form of realization and this is realized by one and all, i.e. Universal.

A man becomes God but spiritually, as otherwise physically he is but a man like you.

He is seen within by thousands. The man seen within by thousands becomes Absolute and seers see the Leela (Sportive forms) within.

According to the Isha Upanishad, the man seen is the ‘Man-in-the-Sun’ and seers see Him in their own ‘gold-sheath’ (Hiranmaya Kosha).

Sun is the symbol of Life Power in the seventh plane and some 30 men and women have seen ‘Diamond’ so within them.

It may be taken as Plato’s ‘Absolute Equality’ and Abstract Equality’.

Five of the Upanishads: (1) Brihad-Aranyaka, (2) Chandogya, (3) Maitri, (4) Taittiriya and (5) Isha point out the ‘man in the Sun’. It is but Macrocosm; whereas, the thing actually takes place in the microcosm. The plain meaning is not in the outside world but in the human body. ‘The sun’ and the ‘Man-in-the Sun’ are seen. It is so experienced here by many but within their own cerebrum and reported to ‘Diamond’. And they are some 30 or more. Even now it is running.

501. “He (Atman) who is seen and shown by God-the-Preceptor as God has become this Universe and its living beings”.

It means ‘Ra’ of Thakur – the Universe with all its contents within Atman seen in the seventh plane, i.e. Viswarupa.

‘Ma’ first and then comes ‘Ra’. God first and then the Universe.

But the Universe is before the very eye of one and all. How does it come? Man is Brahma or creator. He creates the Universe. At the time of opening the eyes for the first time he casts this Universe from within and then comes on the earth. It takes place at the time of his birth. Thakur says, “In the Vedas it is spoken of the spider and its cob-web. The spider casts the web from within and then rests on it”.

Spider – is man – living Brahma.

Cob-web – is the Universe.

It is an individual realization and no proof can be set up for it.

The secondary proof is Ra.

It can be set forth from Thakur’s own life. In the house of Balaram Bose. Thakur was in Samadhi after an earthquake. When he came down from Samadhi he said, “Do you know what realization was going through me? The Universe was looked like a Shalagram Sila (a round small shining marble stone worshipped as God by the Hindus as a symbol of the Universe in miniature) with your two opened eyes fixed in it (the eyes of Sri ‘M’ who was addressed)”.

In other occasion he said, “I see a small Shalagram Sila in every man”.

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 )

497. “Discrimination succeeds ‘Nivritti’ (Lit, mind without any occupation)”.

Nivritti is a cool, composite and even condition of mind. No Nivritti can be had until and unless God-the-Preceptor appears within the body. (Brahmachari appeared and the mind of the snake turned inward from the outward world in the metaphor as used by Thakur, vide explanation no. 41, page 91).

Then the yoga starts. Life Power or Kundalini gets awakened and in course of the upward progress of the Life Power a man gets Samadhi and then real Nivritti comes. In short, more the divinity appears within, more the Nivritti grows.

Furthermore, there is a kind of Samadhi known as Nirvija Samadhi which literally means burning up the seeds of desire.

498. “Then the mind gets a liking to have a walk to Kali, the wish-fulfilling Tree”.

Nivritti has freed the mind from the load of the worldly enjoyments, so the mind is free now and it gets upward course from the fourth plane to the seventh plane and at the end this Kalpataru or the wish-fulfilling Tree is seen.

An aspirant or Sadhaka has but one wish and that is to attain God, or in other words, to get himself transformed into God.

Here a young, fresh and lively mango tree is seen and the tree has unripe mangoes on the branches of the lower part and big, ripe and tempting mangoes on the branches at the top.

“When the juice of the ‘Invisible creeper’ or ‘Alek Late’ oozes in the abdomen then a tree grows”. – Sri Ramkrishna

Alek Lata or the invisible creeper is Brahma or God.

When this ripe mango is placed at the hand of the aspirant and he commences eating, licking and devouring it, then his wish is fulfilled.

499. “In the end, all-told together, there is but One”.

You along exist and you are that One. It is Viswarupa or the Universe within you.

It is the Cosmic Man of Jainism.

An instance is quoted here from the Gospel of Sri Ramkrishna.

“The crow Bhushandi is feeling to save itself from Sri Ramchandra. Wherever it flees it finds that the hand of Rama is holding a chase to catch it. Bhushandi gets tired and exhausted. Then it surrenders to Rama. Rama catches it and puts it in his mouth. Bhushandi then opens its eyes and finds that it is cozily resting on the very same branch where it used to perch.

“Bhushandi out of its own experience came to understand that though Rama outwardly looked like an ordinary man but the whole Universe was within Rama”. Rama means One.

It is so with one and all human being but after attainment of Brahma.

So far goes the ‘Individualism’ bearing no proof as it is a pure esoteric condition.

Universalism speaks and reveals a realistic data having advance its own proof.

Let a man attain Paramajyoti and thousands see Him within and declare it by setting up “One and Oneness”.

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 )

492. “When the trunk of the tree grows thick and strong, the fencing is removed”.

When Life Power or Kundalini is awakened in full measure, no further precaution is required.

493. “Now if an elephant is tied to the tree, the elephant cannot break it”.

Elephant – is the symbol of mind. Life Power or Kundalini when awakened controls the mind.

494. “First besmear your hands with oil and then break open the Jackfruit”.

Oil – is the symbol of Chaitanya or yogic consciousness as seen in the cerebrum and it flares up emitting brilliant red light.

Jackfruit – is the world. It yields a flavored sweet juice. The world is full of temptations and allurements. If this yogic consciousness is attained, the temptation and allurements will fail to bewitch the attainer. His body and Atman separates. He becomes Atman, remains aloof, and nothing can tarnish him.

To add to it, the metaphor of Jackfruit reminds one of the five sheaths as realized in the human body as pointed out in the Vedas.

495. “A man of ‘Discrimination’ (Viveka) knows that God is Real and everything else is unreal”.

Discrimination is Viveka – the capacity to discriminate between real and unreal.

A man gets discrimination after coming down from the Jara Samadhi. He will be firmly established in it. Every turn and every effort of his life will be directed towards God. In short, he lives for God and God alone as evinced in the life of Thakur. This is Viveka.

496. “Being established in discrimination one wants to know God”.

To have established is discrimination means to see God in the seventh plane as otherwise no discrimination can come out. After seeing God or Atman, the sense that ‘I am Atman’ and ‘not this body’ springs up automatically and this is real discrimination.

To know God – means to know the attributes or nature of God. Yes, a man sees God as pointed out and spoken out by God-the-Preceptor but the seer is not aware of any attribute of God. Then comes automatic enfoldment of Atman or God.

“If Atman, out of grace unfolds Himself”. – Sri Ramkrishna

Atman unfolds Himself in the five following ways as pointed out in the realization of the Vedanta. They are: –

(1) To see God or Atman.

(2) To see the Universe within this Atman.

(3) This big Universe turns into a Seed or Jara Samadhi.

(4) The existence of the Seed appears to be a Dream.

(5) This Dream is succeeded by Sthitha Samadhi.