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 )

517. “Bharadwaja and other Rishis eulogized Rama and spoke – Oh Rama, you are that Indivisible Existence–Knowledge–Bliss Absolute. You have come down to us as a man. In fact, you have enveloped yourself with your Maya (Illusion), so you look like a man”.

Here the mythological idea of an Avatar is given and not the Yogic form. The idea is that God is in Heaven – an unknown world situated far, far away and let you lose the rein of your imagination but Heaven is still far away and there is no end of it. One fine morning in the gay month of May he thought to come down as a man for enjoying sports in the midst of the human race. Then followed the ‘Immaculate Conception’. In course of time the human race gets an Avatar. It is of Dravidian and Semitic origin and later on when Hinduism was created and flourished it was accepted and given Publicity through various channels to misguide and to rule over the people.

The Aryan culture or Sanatan Dharma (spontaneous revelation of Life Power) is very simple and confined in the Physical body of a man. It is based on the Rajayoga and then it is succeeded by the Mahayoga. The former is ‘Individualism’ (Byesti – individual) and the latter is ‘Universalism’ (Samasti – Universal). Both of them come and flourish spontaneously in a man. It is taught by God-the-Preceptor before the disciple has the least knowledge of the thing; nay, the recipient of the teachings does not hear the word even. Then follows a galaxy of realizations until a man gets the Manikin form within him and it has been declared as an Avatar or Incarnation of God and not God Himself yet. Here ends Avatarbad.

“In a man there is a Manikin form”. – Sri Ramkrishna

Then follows Godhead or Brahma.

Up to Avatar there is no outward proof of the attainment, save and except, you have got to believe. But when a man becomes Brahma, the proof will be borne by the human race and it is very assertive and positive as they shall see Him within their own bodies; they shall hear the seeing of the same from their wife, sons, daughters, father, mother, brothers, friends and neighbors.

It is but evolution of the Life Power.

518. “Bharadwaja and other eleven Rishis were great devotees of Rama”.

These Rishis were creations of imaginations in the mythology to carry out the publicity of the cult of devotion with a tinge of the Aryan cult.

The later period of the Hinduism was but a happy mixture of Non-Aryanism, Dravidianism, Buddhism and Aryan culture in a drop.

The pure culture of the Aryan was the self-evolution of the Life Power and it was meant for the whole human race, i.e. Universal.

519. “They (the Rishis – twelve in number) had a permanent love for God”.

The yogic form of this type of love is known very easily. At the first sight the devotee will look like his Ishta and it will be so declared by the seer. Suppose a devotee of Buddha is seen and the seer will see him like Buddha and he will declare it at once, “What, are you Buddha born again”? It so happened with Thakur and Mathur Babu (a great devotee of Thakur and the son-in-law of Rani Rasmani – the owner of the temple of Dakshineswar). Mathur Babu was in the verandah of the garden-house adjacent to the room of Thakur. Thakur was loitering in the verandah of his own room. The sight was distinct and clear to Mathur Babu. He saw at the front side of Thakur, there was no Thakur but the goddess of the temple and on his back, it was Siva. Mathur Babu could not control himself; he came down being highly agitated, fell down at the feet of Thakur and said, “Father, I have come to know you! You are nobody else, but the goddess of the temple has come to us. I have seen it with my own eyes”.

This is supreme love for God. But it is Individualism and it cannot render any high services to the cause of the humanity. It is a rare thing and it can hardly be obtained; and even if it manifests, it remains confined in the individual.

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 )

514. “Incarnation of God is sought by the followers of devotion (Bhaktas)”.

It is Dravidian or Semitic culture.

“Siva is set up here by self-exertion”. – Sri Ramkrishna

Really it can never be done and it is very weak and defective.

It is never accepted and acknowledged in the Vedas because it does not bear any proof. Furthermore Godhood cannot be obtained by self-exertion.

515. “The sun rises and the lotus blooms”.

Sun – Sun of Knowledge, when divinity in a man is manifested in the seventh plane.

Lotus – Symbol of the cerebrum. Both sun and lotus are seen in the seventh plane.

Knowledge is compared here with lotus for its purity and beauty. Knowledge is pure as it is divine knowledge and divinity is the most beautiful. As sun is one and incomparable, so “Knowledge is One” – Ekam Sat, like the sun in the azure sky and beatitude in itself.

516. “Is it possible for one and all to get collected in the seventh plane – the Indivisible Existence – Knowledge – Bliss Absolute”?

Here it is spoken of Atman. The Life Power pervading through and through the body is collected and held in the cerebrum. It is not a question of comprehension. It is seen and shown by God-the-Preceptor.

It is the rarest thing which happens in a man’s life. No report with proof has yet reached the humanity; as about it, with its proof is spoken in the Vedas.

In Brihad-Aranyaka Upanishad, Jajnavalkya declared that Atman should be visualized, but he did not declare that he saw Atman.

In Svetasvatara Upanishad, Svetaketu declared that he saw the ‘Purusha’ behind the darkness; but this is not Atman.

Zoroaster of Persia did not declare seeing of the Atman.

No mention of Atman has ever been made in the Babylonian or Assyrian religion.

From Moses and Buddha and down to Sri Chaitanya none announced the seeing of Atman, save and except Sri Ramkrishna who with all emphasis declared the seeing of Atman.

Here a difficulty crops up in his emphatic declaration, as seeing of the Atman is immediately followed by seeing the seer of Atman by innumerable people within their own bodies irrespective of caste, creed, or anything else. It is so depicted in the Vedas when the globe was half enveloped in the darkness of ignorance.

We find in our everyday experience the very identical Cosmic Law still stands good and runs the same course as it was with the Rishis in the days of yore.

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”.