Swami Shivapadananda on focus

SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA

DAILY READINGS

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

Day 326

 

It is a tragedy when the guru leaves the body. So prepare now. God is
always living. Do not get attached to the body. If I want to speak to my guru,
I just speak with him. Get used to doing this while he is still living, so you
become qualified to have him inside you, and to hold him there. The guru must
not make you a slave, he must make you a master in every sense. You cannot be a
master unless you hold him inside you. So look within and see only God. Then
you will feel God, you will understand God. Then when you go outside you will
be fearless.

In bhakti there is only devotion, you only want God – the lover and the
beloved become One. Then who will be whom? Bhakti is the means and the end. It
is the root and the fruit of the tree of the Spirit. Go into the heart, hold
God’s leg, twist it, make Him give. Knock. You must go within.

God-realisation must come first, then you can help others. We need solitude
and meditation. Do you understand? If you know this and do not do it, it is a
sin.

Be a witness of happiness and sadness etc. Watch. Say to your self: ‘The
eyes see, but I am the Spirit. The feet walk, but I am the Spirit.’ Detach
yourself from body-consciousness. Body-consciousness is ego. Have faith and
devotion. Use the name of God. A bhakta [devotee] sees the ego as God’s
servant.

Repeat OM [or AUM] 21 times, with the tone
rising and getting louder and louder, and end between the eyebrows. Kundalini?
No. God? Yes. Let it travel with the OM vibration, feel it.

Know that: Now is only this instant and only God exists.

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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.