Swami Shivapadananda with more on the guilelessness of Hanuman
SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA
DAILY READINGS
From Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji
Day 543
Swamiji continues speaking on Sri Hanuman
Then Hanumanji thought: 'Sri Rama is with me, I should be sleeping at the same time as Sri Rama.' So he went to his kutir [little hut/room/quarters] and slept.
And Hanumanji sleeps with Rama up to this day. When Sri Rama goes to sleep, Hanumanji goes to sleep. When Sri Rama gets up, he gets up. Only when the guru goes to sleep then the chela [disciple] should go and sleep. The guilelessness of this is so beautiful that you should offer Hanumanji a little sindoor and recall that guilelessness. Guileless, what a beautiful word. That is why it is very wonderful for married women to use sindoor [vermillion powder as a dot on the forehead or in the hair parting]. But they do not understand this guilelessness of Hanumanji. Hanumanji is the only male deity to whom you give sindoor. For example, if you give sindoor to Sri Ganesha it is more for his wives, his shaktis [female aspects of God].
Swami Vivekananda also showed us guilelessness. When he went to sleep a light would appear in his mind. He was so guileless that he thought that this light appeared for everyone. One day the Master [Sri Ramakrishna] asked him, 'Did a light appear?' He said 'Yes. Wasn't it there for everybody?' 'No, no, no. It's special, it's only happening to you.'
So Hanumanji's guilelessness is that he goes to sleep with his Lord, married or not. He said to Sri Rama, 'I don't understand all that, I only understand that I want to be with you, O Lord, and you with me.' What innocence, what bhakti [divine love, devotion].
My guru was a great worshipper of Hanumanji, and Hanumanji led him to his own form called Lord Shiva. Then Lord Shiva led him to his own form called Sri Ramakrishna.
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