THE DRY COCONUT ROAMS AROUND LIKE A JIVANMUKTI

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Salutations to Thakur, Guru, and Ma!

 

Trailokya--"What are the signs that one has attained jnana while living in the

 

household?

 

Sri Ramakrishna--"Tears flow from the eyes and horripulation at the name of

Hari.

 

No sooner does one hear His sweet Name when one's body hair stands on end

 

and a stream of tears flows from the eyes.

 

 

The lesser the attachment for sensory objects, the nearer you are to atmajnana

 

(knowledge of the Self), and to the same extent the body consciousness becomes

 

less. One attains atmajnana when attachment to the sensory objects has

 

completely disappeared. Then one begins to feel that the soul in one and the

body is another.

 

 

It is difficult to separate the kernal of the coconut from its shell, on cutting

it with a heavy knife, till the water in it has dried up. When the water had

dried up you just have to strike it and the kernel gets detached. This is

called the dry coconut.

 

The signs of God-realization are that a man becomes like a dry coconut, gets rid

of the identification of the body with the the self. Pleasure and pain of the

body are no longer his concern. He roams about as jivanmukta (liberated in this

very life)."

 

 

 

Satchitananda

 

Kathy

 

 

 

(SRI SRI RAMAKRISHNA KATHAMRITA. Vol. I., p. 291)