Daily Reading 68. Swamiji speaks about the transforming vibration of mantra.
Taken from Mother Radha’s notes, written at Swamiji’s feet.
We must do some reading of holy books. Ignorance is like a dull light. We know when we are loving knowledge, and we come to love it more and more.
Sri Ramakrishna is of the ancient world, Swami Vivekananda is of the modern world. When both come together, that is what we have inherited. Without Holy Mother [Sri Sarada Devi] there is no example for women. Father is God, Son is guru and Holy Ghost is the information that passes on.
Repeat God’s name [in japa]. Repeat God’s name and as you do it, all the filth comes out. That is my experience.
Sri Ramakrishna said, ‘Even if you worship the formless, think the form is there to one side.’
The mantra makes the Deity in the subtle body very happy, and that leads the Deity to bless the whole universe. You must know the mantra and the meaning in essence – this attracts a like vibration from the Universal Being.
In the Bible it says: In the beginning was God, but I say, In the beginning is God; thus you derive benefit. Some say, ‘God knows everything, so if I am hungry God should send food.’ But if He doesn’t send any, we say, ‘To hell with faith.’ A man with faith may be dull, ignorant, but be brilliant inside,
in God-thought.
Mantra changes every cell of the body. Mantra changes the tune or vibration of the body. Sri Ramakrishna said, ‘Once, if you take the name of God, you will be realised.’ He tells us this, but we must first learn how to say the mantra.
Rishis were seers of thought, but not of their own thought. The Rishis never thought they created the scriptures from their own minds. Rishis are the seers of Truth, which exists eternally. Their creative energy is never at rest, it still goes on. It is God’s eternal creation which works throughout the universe. Take the body, it is creating new cells all the time, but we do not know about it. Who makes creation? It is really a projection, without beginning or end. It is similar to the creation of a dream, and who makes the dream.
Why don’t we want to read another man’s mind? Because I know what is in my mind, why must I discover what rubbish is in his mind?
Some are born happy, some unhappy, some are born wealthy, some ‘un-wealthy’. We ourselves make it so – not God. It is due to our previous life or lives [karma]. We are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects and the causes.
Spirituality comes through human hearts. The soul is immortal; it is in every man and every woman; the same omnipresent [everywhere], omniscient [all-knowing] Soul. There is a difference. Not in the Soul, but in the manifestation. The body is here and the mind is beyond. Behind the mind is the Atman. The Soul of man is called the Self or Atman; which is separate from the mind and the body; and which goes through death, accompanying the mind. The goal of the Soul is freedom Absolute. Heaven and hell are not infinite nor Absolute.
As long as time and space work on you, you are a slave. Nature must fall at your feet and you must trample on it and be free. The goal is Eternal bliss.
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