Swami Shivapadananda on attitude
SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA
DAILY READINGS
Taken from Mother Radha’s
notes, written at Swamiji’s feet.
Day 338
[From a reading?]
‘In meditation let all sound become the inexpressible vibration of the mantra.
Let the perpetual movement of thought become simple, pure, un-compounded
awareness, so that, without union, without division, the great bliss is
revealed.’
[Swamiji] To meditate is to touch God. It is the feeling with which you
do meditation that is important. Satsang [prayer service] opens up the heart and
the mind.
Brahman [the One universal consciousness] is the sky, Krishna
is the colour of the sky. Can you separate them?
In the scriptures we read: ‘He who worships me in faith and love, who
gives me all his heart, I call my own.’
Do everything for the guru. Renounce the world and ultimately surrender
to the guru. Repeat, ‘I do all for him,’ and the ego goes. We do not really
love Him because we do not know God’s love, so we use the guru.
Swamiji to devotee: Do you want to live in the world?
Devotee: No, Swamiji.
Swamiji: Then hurry up, do your duties and then go.
You come here and expect the guru to give you knowledge. But what you
have in your mind, he reflects. Come to any guru with an open mind, so you
receive his teachings.
Look at the chair but do not say ‘chair,’ say ‘God, God, God.’ [i.e. see
the underlying and inherent consciousness in it] Keep on doing this.
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words in these postings, in context. Every teaching or instruction that he gave
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Reference websites: Ramakrishna Math & Mission, Ramakrishna Centre of Southern Africa, Ramakrishna Dham