Swami Shivapadananda on sanctity and respect

SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA

DAILY READINGS

From Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji

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Nowadays the orthodox way of giving herbs and other concoctions does not work. By the time you go and fetch the herbs the patient may die. What he needs is a genuine injection and that injection is what Master [Sri Ramakrishna] gives.

When a man has a heart attack you do not go and get a pill to put in his mouth. No. Straight away the doctor will take an injection and inject it so the man's heart may start beating again. When it starts beating normally then let him swallow any other medicines he likes.

It is very important that when you say, 'Ramakrishna' you say it with devotion. I even find the young ones talking about Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda and Mother Sarada [Devi] without any respect. I mean by this that they do not feel the presence of that Deity, they do not feel the personality. There must be a kind of devotion behind your words when you take Master's name.

When real devotees of Master utter his name, they actually get goose-bumps. They actually feel this and you can see their faces change. The name itself changes their whole personality and that is how we must take God's name. Do not take it as you would take a five year old's name, without any respect. Rather not take the name at all. Just think about the name if you cannot take it with respect.

If you start telling people about your spiritual experiences and telling them what mantra to use, without first getting the spiritual fruit, without doing enough japa, without practising austerities, you will have your downfall. It is because the kundalini shakti in you will come lower than normal.

It happened in the case of Swami Vivekananda when he touched his gurubhai [brother disciple] Swami Abhedananda. Swami Abhedananda got into samadhi [superconsciousness]. But Master said that Swami Vivekananda had harmed him. One would think that if someone got into samadhi then no harm would befall them, but here it harmed Swami Abhedananda.

An electrical wire will take a certain amount of voltage, but if you put a little extra voltage on it, you can burn the wire out. So do not start becoming chota gurus [little gurus]. 

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