Swami Shivapadananda on devotion to the Guru
SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA
DAILY READINGS
Taken from Mother Radha’s
notes, written at Swamiji’s feet.
Day 352
Ekalavya’s story [see immediately previous posting] shows us that nothing is too great to give the Guru. Be
humbler than a blade of grass. If you feel that ‘I am a disciple,’ be humbler,
become nothing. Praise the Guru in your heart.
Become enlightened, then the Guru will shine through you. Never think of
your great qualities, watch yourself each day. Pray, ‘O God, I do not know You,
please reveal Yourself to me,’ and God will.
Are you looking for happiness? You will never find it. Seek bliss within
yourself, but without violence. Nothing can be destroyed or protected. If you
begin to protect something, that is already violence. The greenness of grass
needs no protection – that is its dharma [religious duty or prescribed path].
Arjuna and his brothers, and Draupadi, his mother, were all on their way
to heaven but one by one they looked back to see where the others were. And
they were turned to stone. Never do that. Help those in front to go along the road,
yes, even a dog, but never stop for those behind.
What does the Guru’s light dispel? The soul’s darkness.
Jiva is the soul with a mind and body. Shiva is a soul without a mind
and body. This is your true [higher] Self, the Atman.
The Atman is like a thread running through the garland of life. Why do
we forget this? Because we have the wrong image of the Self, we think the body
is the Self.
Through fault finding you become faulty yourself. You must have faith.
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