Swami Shivapadananda on optimising spiritual development opportunities

SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA

DAILY READINGS

From Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji

Day 544

[Pictured: The street leading to the original Udbodhan House in Kolkata, where Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi lived following the mahasamadhi of Sri Ramakrishna]

 
 

[At the beginning of the Easter Yoga Camp]

I feel happy to see that somehow the children of Master [Sri Ramakrishna] have learned to inspire themselves. This is a very good sign. When you come to these Yoga Camps you come to know how much you love spiritual life and how much discomfort you can go through.

When you leave this Camp you should notice if you have become any better or any worse than when you came here. Whatever the answer, whatever your experience, you should try your level best either to increase your love for God or to decrease your attachment to transient things.

I feel that children should be exposed to gatherings like this from a very early age so they naturally grow into their natural environment of spirituality. If they are not exposed to spiritual life it will become very difficult to make them feel that this is their heritage, this is the one way of life that gives a complete way of life. Other ways of life may give you one aspect, but spiritual life gives you a complete way of life.

It was wonderful that Jesus the Christ made the greatest sacrifice in life, to show that he had 'birthing' power and also 'deathing' power. You may be able to take life but will you be able to give life? The Lord can take your life and yet give you life; or take it away for good.

You must do japa [repetition of a sacred sound syllable, mantra or one of God's many names] till it comes out of every part of you. You must be saturated. But nobody here does that, you can tell by the eyes.

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