Swami Shivapadananda on becoming virtuous

SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA

DAILY READINGS

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

Day 312

 

The foundation of spiritual eyes, the eyes of the spirit, are the
ethical and moral laws. Be good, do good. Stake your life, your name and fame
to become good. To become bad is easy, just one stone thrown at the neighbour’s
house. But to be good you must persist. Be truthful, be loving.

Yama [the do’s] and niyama [the don’ts] are essential. If you are not
practising celibacy, brahmacharya, and non-injury, then when you try to get God
you cannot, because even if you reach God-realisation, you will not recognise
it, you are blind.

Diwali is light, sight – yama and niyama. Let us study the interior of
the heart with the light-giving, soul-revealing light of yama and niyama. From
this comes the strength to dispel darkness. You are heroes only when you live
the teachings of the great ones.

As you think so you become. Do you choose God? Or are you weak and evil?
Diwali is lighting the temple of the heart with virtues, and then seeing the
great glory of the Soul within – Mahalakshmi.

Practise wins the favour of God, but first you must win the favour of
your own mind. Only then will you find it easy to win God’s grace. You are all
one, you are all gods. But you are like islands, you do not know you are all
joined together deep under the water.

We are One, Satchidananda. In all conditions, all circumstances, I am
Bliss Absolute, Knowledge Absolute, Existence Absolute.

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