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Swami Shivapadananda Puri speaks on the sanctity of your sadhana, or spiritual practice time (audio) – (Mouse-over the grey bar below to play)
Swami Shivapadananda Puri speaks on the sanctity of your sadhana or spiritual practice time. Audio.
Swami Shivapadananda on mind-management
Karma comes to an end only when I uproot the roots of karma within myself. The quality of violence is where? In me. How does energy, comprising my mind, become violence? Once I see it I begin to throw it away, then there is no more violence in me.
Finding peace
‘If you write a sign board that says ALL SECOND-HAND FURNITURE WANTED and put it outside, what kind of furniture will you find in your yard?’
Getting away with God
Master [Sri Ramakrishna] said that in the Kali Yuga man is a busy creature, he is always in a hurry. He said that even though we are busy we should at least take some time off from our material life to pay special attention to our spiritual life.
Swami Shivapadananda on the conclusion of the meditation process
Now let your deity become merged in the whole of creation. Feel that it is penetrating your whole body and, through your body, merged into the whole of creation. Thus you become visharoop [the universal form of the deity].
One deity – many possible forms [Part 1 of several postings on the Ishta Deva]
Your deity is almighty. So your deity has the power to take the other form. That you must never forget. That your deity has the power to take any form under the sun – even above the sun.