Swami Shivapadananda on Kundalini, Guru and God

SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA

DAILY READINGS

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

Day 309

 

What you give in love, you get back in love. So give and give and give.
Feel it open your heart.

Begin by controlling the thoughts. Think of God, then your actions and
words will be godly.

It is hard to control desire, the tanmatras [subtle energies] are too subtle.

For six days sit and think, ‘I am God, I am perfect, I am divine, I am
bliss Absolute,’ and see the change. As you change your thoughts miracles must
happen. The power of the mantra is so strong, no evil person can come near you.
You only attract people of the same vibration.

There is no such thing as guru and chela, all is [the Divine] Mother.
Mother is everywhere. Where did I come from? Mother’s womb. Where did the Earth
come from? Mother’s womb. She is in me and I am in Her. Similarly, the guru is
in me and I am in him.

The best way to be a devotee is to have no pride, no anger, no jealousy.
Destroy your own ego, crucify yourself, otherwise you will crucify the guru.

There is no guru, only God seated within you. Until I see all as God, as
[the Divine] Mother, within and without, there is no philosophy, no high
teaching, there is only this.

 “Raising” the kundalini? Rubbish. As you raise your thought, so you
raise the kundalini.

 ‘Ma [Divine Mother], you take the form of the enemy as well as of
the beloved. I salute you in both.’ See Her in everything.

The guru may be [located physically] far from the disciple, but he may
be sitting there with his mala [rosary, prayer beads] and praying, ‘Ma, change
her thoughts, change her thoughts,’ and perhaps not be concerned with the
people near him.

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