You don’t change partners like shoes. Same with your Deity.
A thought-provoking audio clip, covering three themes:
1) Why do we worship God?
2) We have to stop asking God, and instead demand from God.
3) Stick with one Deity.
Discussed in a humorous way by Swamiji. But so much food for thought, regarding how we approach our spiritual lives. And most importantly, how serious we are about it.
Swamiji says a lot of what we do is really just hedging our bets, or fudging our way along – 'fluking' as Swamiji refers to it.
There's a delightful sign-off to the conversation where Swamiji, chuckling merrily, says you don't, or shouldn't anyhow, be changing husbands (or wives) like you change shoes. And the same applies to your Deity. 😂
To listen to these words of wisdom first-hand, please click on the link below. Jai Sri Ramakrishna!
Duration: 07:55
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Click here: → Swamiji's biography
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The original audio recordings of these posts were made by close Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa and Swami Shivapadananda devotee, Mother Radha. The audio editing and noise reduction of the original 1970s-onwards tapes, has been lovingly engineered, over many years, by her son and our dear gurubhai, Brother Tim. May Sri Ramakrishna and Swamiji bless them both.
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Context: As always, care should be taken to remember that what Swamiji was saying, may have been very specific to the needs of people with him at the time. Please bear this in mind.
Links to our Guruparampara (spiritual lineage) organisations, which will broaden your knowledge base: Ramakrishna Math and Mission and our alma maters, the Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa and the Sri Sarada Devi Ashram in Durban. The Ramakrishna Centre of Johannesburg is also active in Gauteng province in South Africa.
There are various publications [The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna etc.] which you can download at no charge, from the Ramakrishna Centre of SA website page, HERE.
The visual in this post was generated using prompts to Microsoft Copilot Artificial Intelligence.