Swami Shivapadananda on remembering who you really are

SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA

DAILY READINGS

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

Day 300

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Remember, you are God and you are free.

The soul has no eyes but it sees, it has no nose but it breathes.

Worship is your path to God. You will gradually remember who you are.

There are worldly eyes and godly eyes. Thoughts are worldly or godly.
When I criticise others, I see wrongly. When I see all perfect, it is
beautiful, lovely, godly.

A thought arises and you either ignore it or you say, ‘God, this is your
instrument, your thoughts, your senses. This is the fruit of your tree, I offer
it back to thee.’

God-thoughts are a golden chain to climb to God. If you think worldly
thoughts, they bind you to the Earth. The mind has to be calm, pure, before you
see this.

Krishna says there are three gates
to hell: lust, greed and anger. Lust includes desire.

Greed is seen when Ravana desired Rama’s wife. This was greed as he
already had so many wives. Anger and pride go together. Ravana was angry
because he was thwarted from making her his own. Therefore he would not accept
Rama’s offers of peace. If I want something, I say, “What is this, Ma? Do you
want some so-and-so? If so I will eat it for you.” Suppression is when you want
something but hide from it and pretend it is not there. Then it comes back.

See but do not judge. What has it to do with you what others do or are?

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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.