Swami Shivapadananda about reliance on God
SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA
DAILY
READINGS
Taken from Mother Radha’s
notes, written at Swamiji’s feet.
Day 288
Let us put our heads on the feet of all the great gurus of the past, the
present and the future, and ask that they put their hands on us and bless us always.
The body is God’s garden and ‘I am’ [God] is the gardener. There is no
ego-consciousness, no self-consciousness. If I work for my sake, I worry. If I
work for God’s sake, it is His worry.
If the mind is dull, sing bright kirtans [religious/spiritual songs]. If
the mind is too active, sing quiet kirtans, this leads to sattva [balance,
tranquillity], perfect peace. We have to have experiences to get above them, to
the place of non-experience. What you get then is the greatest experience.
Always be happy, laugh and be joyful, even if you are bleeding. A swami
[monk or other religious figure] is only a crutch. Stand on your own. He is
here only for a few days [relatively speaking] and then he is gone.
You do not know how much I love you all. If I scold you, the same love
motivates it, because you are my own. Otherwise why bother? All these are the
forms of love. Do not think, ‘Oh Swamiji is scolding me, so he loves others
more’ and so on. I do not love your body and your mind, I love You.
When I first came here to the Ashram [monastery], every human I turned
to rejected me, till I finally turned to Mother. I prayed to her: ‘Now you have
to help me Ma [Divine Mother], I am your child.’ And she did.
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