Love for love’s sake
[2nd President and Spiritual Head: the Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa]
[now a Centre of the international Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission]
DAILY READINGS
Selected from Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji.
Day 875
Sri Ramakrishna says: 'If you have five children, why do you look after them? Because it is your duty'. So why does God look after me? Because it is His duty. Why does my Deity [Ishta Deva] look after me? Because it is His duty.
If I love God for God's sake, that is love. That is praise. When there is no reason why you love God, you just love Him.
It must come to the stage when you do not think, 'Why do I love God?' That is real love. As long as you are conscious that 'My God is here wherever I go' that is alright. The saints just want you to love God.
Go to the Guru [spiritual preceptor] with humility. Meditation on Shiva [or your Ishta Deva] is meditation on the Guru. Sit with your Guru, become one with your Guru.
When the soul identifies itself with the body, it forgets it is the soul, and suffers. When we identify ourselves with the body, we forget we are the soul and suffer.
If God is omnipresent [everywhere], where am I?
1) Care should be taken by the reader to understand and take Swamiji's words in these postings, in context. Every teaching or instruction that he gave was specific to the people who were with Swamiji at the time.
2) Mouse-over the words highlighted in red in the posting for further explanation or links.
There are currently available, over 100 different CDs or DVDs with mp3 files, of Swamiji speaking. Please email timhoare@webmail.co.za to order.
Click HERE for the second website on Swamiji's life and teachings.
For more about the Holy Trinity, and also the founding Swamis of the Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa, please mouse over their names below:
Sri Ramakrishna Sri Sarada Devi Swami Vivekananda
Swami Nischalananda Swami Shivapadananda
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna - read online
Reference websites – please mouse over the name and click to connect:
Ramakrishna Math and Mission Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa Ramakrishna Dham