Swami Shivapadananda on steps to self-realisation

SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA

DAILY

READINGS

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

Day 310

 

[Swamiji chants a salutation to the Divine Mother]: ‘Ya devi sarva
bhutesu, shanti rupine samstita, namastase, namastase, namastase, namo namah.’

Fear is God, love is God, accident is God, laughter is God. All is He –
just as fire is latent in wood, and friction brings it out and transforms it to
ash. Tamas [slothfulness] is Kali, rajas [activity] is Lakshmi, sattva
[balance] is Saraswati. Without eyes It sees, without hands It works, without a
tongue It speaks the scriptures, without a mind It knows.

Ask your shadow who you are, it will answer, ‘I am that I am.’ Have that
as your goal. I sing a song, it is not separate from me. That which knows It,
is the experiencer. “I am not this, not that, I am everything.” Just as the sun
is never in darkness “I and my Father are One”.

These three things are necessary to improve your spiritual life: 1. What
you eat should be easy to digest, easy to assimilate, and agreeable to the
body. 2. Meditate morning and evening at a regular time and place. 3. The
control of anger leads to ego-less-ness. Do this through Karma [work/action] Yoga,
Bhakti [devotion] Yoga, Raja [philosophical, meditative] Yoga and Jnana [knowledge] Yoga.

Man has three parts. The body is gross, the mind is subtle, the
intellect is causal.

In the waking state the mind is in the head, in dream state it is in the
throat, and in the sleep state it is in the heart, the witness.

Brahman [the One universal consciousness] has no vibration. It is
the One inside, and the many, outside.

Who is your guru? In the end the guru is your own Self – God within you.
The whole world is your ashram [monastery or place of retreat]. All this is only part of the world
play. There must be purity in thought, word and deed. Make sure every word
makes the other man strong.

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