Swami Shivapadananda on Lord Krishna and closeness to God

SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA

DAILY READINGS

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

Day 320

 

We are seeds with plant [growth] potential inside us. It is the guru who
awakens it.

Stop playing, you have played long enough.

For meditation the time is important, not the place. Because where you
are, your vibrations are. Open the heart and mind, meditation happens.

Sri Krishna is described as blue and small because God looks like that
from a distance. The ocean and the sky also look blue from a distance. But the
true nature of God is neither blue nor small.

Sri Krishna is Purusha and Srimati Radhika [Radha] is his Shakti – Prakriti,
primal power. This is the meaning of Yugala [both figures joined together as
one] murthi, where Krishna and Radhika are conjoined, that is, there is no difference. His eyes are on her, and her eyes
are on him. Her complexion is like lightening, golden. So too is Krishna's garb [clothing]. His complexion is blue, like a [distant] cloud, and so she wears blue garb and sapphires. Both wear tinkling anklets. This shows they are complementary, they are in harmony.

[See footnote].

Develop this divine restlessness for God. Be like Radha. Just as a child feels the absence of its mother and cries, we must cry. He [God] can ever [always] be seen.

In the scriptures it is said: In a stone God sleeps, in plants He
dreams, in man He is awake.The mind separates us. The Divine Mother is always
the total sum of us all, but we seem only to be part of Her. To be one with
Her, we have to be without name or form. We have to leave thought and form
outside. Then it is all the same, there is no difference.

Rest in the [higher] Self.

Footnote: Dear reader, I have tried, and failed, to find a picture of the (conjoined) Yugala Murthi. If you have one, would you be kind enough to e-mail it to me on info@imbizo.com? Thanks.

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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.