Swami Shivapadananda on difference between knowledge and experience

                                               

SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA

DAILY READINGS

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

Day 304

 

Let me open my eyes and see my [divine] Self [Atman] in all, dog, cat, geese –
and [in a] shoe too.

Be happy always.

Lots of people take knowledge for experience, this is not possible.

Let us get rid of all pre-conceived ideas and habits now. So much time
is wasted if you have to take another birth [i.e. reincarnate]. You are all so blessed.

What is the purpose of holy men? To remind you. Fall you must, but you
must pick yourself up again and go on. No fuss, no tears, no bother, these only
delay you.

Do sadhana [spiritual practice] silently, in solitude, secretly – and
serve. The deeper you go, the humbler you are and the more loving you become.
So go deep.

Who are you to correct another? If you can do it kindly, do it. If not,
keep quiet. It is [the Divine] Mother’s child, She will look after it.

When you meditate in the heart it must be bare [empty], with only a
candle. Enter into it, be one with it. Be it. Afterwards open the eyes and see
God in all.

How to get rid of attachment? By attaching oneself to God’s lotus feet.
Do not think that this is ‘my’ wife, ‘my’ house, ‘my’ car. Rather pray: ‘Do what
Thou wilt Lord, I want only Thy lotus feet.’

Renounce. Renounce [give up] attachment to the past too.

When you attain purity you can listen to your own pure voice of
conscience.

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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.