Swami Shivapadananda on attachment

SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA

DAILY READINGS

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

Day 302

Attachment is like a thread of hair, you think it is easily broken; but
I tell you it is like a rope that binds you. Break it.

Question: What is our duty, Swamiji? Swamiji: If a thing enhances your
spiritual life, it is your duty. Serve God in all, make all your own.

Krishna’s father was Vasudeva –
intelligence – and his mother was Devaki – love. Together they produced a child
of love who was perfect in every way, all the time.

The prayer: “Poornamidaa poornamidam . . .” indicates that perfection
can never be less than the whole.  

When we say the prayer “Asatoma . . .” it means: Let me see the Light which will remove the darkness of ignorance and
attachment, so that I may see the perfection which I am already but which I
have forgotten. I am perfect in all ways but I think I am the body.

Krishna is Divine Love. Let him
awake in your heart, this night. That is my prayer.  

The past memories are always coming up. It is no good to bury them.
These are all God’s lilas [divine play], so dance. And if you know and dance, it is wonderful.
Otherwise you just have to dance anyway. Why? To straighten out the
entanglements in the mind. We do not know they are there, but they are. And
later we look back and say, ‘Ah yes, that is why that had to happen.’ So take
the Name [of God/mantra] and may it make you strong for God.

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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.