Swami Shivapadananda on doing all in God’s name
SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA
DAILY READINGS
From Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji
561
[Pictured: The steps at Mayer Ghat, where the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi used to take her bath in the river Ganga.]
Whatever you do in this world, you have to do it in the Name of God – whether it is worldly or spiritual. It becomes spiritual when you are dealing with immortal things, it becomes worldly when you are dealing with mortal things.
Some people get bored and ask, 'Why should I go on praying? Why should I do this or do that for God?' This kind of thought is strangling them and they cannot enjoy the happiness that God has put there for them to enjoy. The only prerequisite is this: Enjoy it in His name. That is all. Have a wife, but have her in His name. Have your children, but have them in His name. Have friends, but have them in His name. This has a mystical power that attracts that which will do you good.
Sri Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita: 'O Arjuna come to Me, worship Me, prostrate to Me, serve Me and I shall give you what you have not, and I shall look after the things that you already have.' Thus, do it all in His name – that is all the Lord asks of you. And yet we find it so difficult. Sri Krishna says that He will look after the things we already have, He will become a guard so that the worldly vultures will not snatch those things away from us.
What other promise do you need? Have you no faith in your scriptures? You have no faith in your scriptures because you have no faith in yourself. Swami Vivekananda said, 'The old religion says that he who has no faith in God is an atheist. But I say to you that he who has no faith in himself is an atheist.'
You doubt your every step. You are afraid, and you do more and more unrighteous things to prop up whatever you are doing. You tell ten thousand lies to cover one lie.
God is telling you: 'In My name. In My name. In My name. That is all. In My name.'
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