Swami Shivapadananda on surrender to Divine will

SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA

DAILY READINGS

Taken from Mother Radha’s
notes, written at Swamiji’s feet.

Day 289

Have you the faith to surrender all to God? Can you say, ‘Do with me
what you will; and then if I make a mess, it is because you wanted this body
and mind to make a mess.’ She is always your [Divine] Mother, though sometimes She
teases you and pretends not to listen. Let Her work through you.

Be happy, happy, happy and give, give, give – that is the mantra for
today. Meditation just happens. Just sit a little, lift yourself up to [the Divine] Mother’s
feet, go inside – then go out and work, work, work. In the evening go back
inside, sing and dance.

Bhakti [the path of devotion] is the easiest – love all, see God in all,
have God in every thought, word and deed.

When are you going to do it? Today? Time is short. If you do not do it
now you will never do it. ‘Knock and it shall be opened.’ This is a promise.
Master [Sri Ramakrishna] said just three days concentration is enough.

Karma is karma only because you think it is. Now say, ‘I am a saint.’
Believe it, think it, speak it – and you are.

A sadhu [monk] was bathing in the river and he found a stick. Straight
away he said, ‘Ah, this is my stick.’ Later on he lost it. Then he said, ‘Ah,
woe is me, I lost my stick.’ This is no good; helping yourself and not others.
Possessions are no good – ‘my stick’ and so on.

Devotee: Can you help yourself, Swamiji? Swamiji: Yes. Keep trying to
build up your strength, your discrimination, your purity. This leads you to a
state of meditation and this leads you to God-realisation. It must.