Swami Shivapadananda on development
SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA
DAILY READINGS
Taken from Mother Radha’s
notes, written at Swamiji’s feet.
Day 278
I embrace you and you feel the love welling up inside you, and you think
I put it there. No. The love was there all the time, I just pulled it out.
In ordinary man desire does the action.
The mind is only needed to interpret what the senses bring it. Otherwise
there is peace.
Are we humble? Feel your spiritual unity with all as you open your eyes.
The personality must be surrendered, all the good and all the bad.
It is not ‘I’ who do the work. Work happens.
‘I’ is God’s Intelligence which is in every cell of my body and your
body, and each atom between us. There is no separation because we are all the
same substance, we are all cells in the body of God. Disharmony is due to a
feeling of separation. You cannot say, ‘I am better’ because ‘I’ is the same in
all.
The senses are my only contact with the world. Dream, wake, remember and
retrace. This is why God gives us birth after birth, to retrace the way to Him.
Sleep refreshes the body and the mind. Death is the same, to forget and begin
again.
Jesus the Christ said, ‘Know the Truth and be free.’
Go deep within yourself, lose yourself.
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.
Besides these daily readings Mother Radha recorded many hours of our beloved Swamiji speaking.
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Reference websites: Ramakrishna Math & Mission, Ramakrishna Centre of Southern Africa, Sri Ramakrishna Dham