Swami Shivapadananda on kundalini and pure thoughts

SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA

DAILY

READINGS

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

Day 308

 

In spiritual life you cannot go around a problem. Face it, get it over
with, it is not so bad.

 Devotee: During the satsang anger arose . . . Swamiji: That anger
has been there for untold ages and must come out. As you fill up with clear
water, the muddy water must come out. Give it to [the Divine] Mother. Devotee: Can I,
Swamiji? Swamiji: Yes, give it all to Her, thought and mind. As pure thought is
put in, the Kundalini rises. There is nothing to stop you. If there are low
thoughts, the Kundalini cannot rise, it is held down.

Devotee: If [the Divine] Mother is the Ishtam [the personal Deity], can
we make Her do all actions? Swamiji: Yes, make Her come alive. She has been an
image too long. That is why we use the guru within us, because he is already
living, and we have seen him. Brahman, God, is like a large chunk of magnetic
iron, which has a power in it, which we cannot see, and which is manifest only
when metal is put near it. No matter how long it has been idle it must manifest
near iron. Electricity has no power unless we switch it on. Pray to Her: ‘Ma,
give us the strength to switch it on.’

Kali destroys ignorance, evil tendencies, animal passions. Lakshmi sustains
us in our spiritual seeking, sustains the power we now have. Saraswati is
knowledge.

I just give myself to Mother. Sometimes I just say, ‘Ma, let’s do it
this way,’ and She does. Or sometimes She does it Her way.

People say they understand me, but do they? From their actions, it does
not look like it.

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