Puranic value
[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 926
Continuing the discussion on prarabdha karma [the destiny, debt that has to be worked out in this birth]
The idea is not to fall for prarabdha karma [become victim to it]. See it coming. Be like the crow Jayantha [previous posts, 922 onwards refer]. Jayantha is my guru [in this case, teacher] in many ways.
[Mother] Sita is Nature. He [Jayantha] got caught in Nature. He had to. Despite it being Nature – next door is God. See how even these Puranic things have got so much truth hidden in them. [Swamiji used to say that Puranic stories are not 'myth' but rather 'traditional wisdom'.]
Someone said to me, 'Why should we bother about Puranic Scripture? It's very old.'
I know it is our orthodox history so I said, 'Hold onto the old things because they are tested. These new things are not tested, they have been created only now.'
If this happened to the crow [see yesterday's reading] this happens to each one of us. Because no one is that perfect.
You should look and learn, learn and look.
If you read intelligently and think intelligently then your mind will come to a particular block thought obstacle or challenge]; and these are the blocks that have to be cleared.
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.
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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