Conversations on Spirit Divine - 4

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Disciple:- Why are we to call these people as incarnations of God? They also appear as ordinary human beings. What is the difference between them and ordinary class of people?

 

Swamiji:- It is very difficult to answer that question. Ordinary souls undergo all kinds of training for a very long time to attain spiritual realizations while these great souls gain such realizations without great difficulty and much training. You will see from the life of Sri Ramakrishna that He achieved the result of many lives of practices of an ordinary soul within a few years time. He practiced different spiritual practices as taught by different faiths and religions and attained their goals in such a short time that no other can imagine it possible to accomplish. It was indeed a divine enthusiasm that was manifested in His life. He attained highest goals of all those paths accepted by Him and at last declared that all of them were leading to same goal. This kind of search after truth is unheard in the history of religion. It was again a wonder that such an illiterate man made all these

researches and found out solutions making the educated world astounded. In course of time He wanted proper recipients for these new revelations and He waited for them. They also came as He desired. He entrusted with them certain duties and disappeared from this world. After His departure, that wonderful spirit did not die. His power worked wonders and a movement came into existence. The movement might have been established as wished by Him and it may be growing by His will. In the case of ordinary men, their wish can be carried out only during their lifetime. If they are unable to achieve it, their wish will remain unfulfilled for ever. In the case of an incarnation, no wish will remain unfulfilled. Thus He got all His wishes fulfilled during His lifetime and further He is getting His expectations also fulfilled after He left this plane. His only purpose in life was to lead His followers and also humanity in general to sublime beatitude. His mission in life is being fulfilled

slowly. His message is spreading through out this world without distinction of caste, creed or color. That illiterate villager who was said to be a mad man by the people of the village of Dakshineswar has become the god or prophet for the people of this world at large. Now you can understand the difference between ordinary men and divine manifestations from this description. I may say that those who do not want to call these great souls as incarnations, may call them as they like. But they are a class of people with unusual divine glory.

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