Swami Shivapadananda on the protective power of mantra
SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA
DAILY READINGS
From Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji
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[Pictured: Sri Hanuman, the great brahmachari devotee of Lord Rama]
[At a Yoga Camp]
The wife should look at the husband as veritable spirit. The husband should look at the wife as veritable spirit.
At least for these three days at this Yoga Camp you have to go about with your mind pure, with your heart as a shrine of God and not as a shrine of the ego. Sri Ramakrishna's 'solitude' became a Yoga Camp, and today many take refuge in it and fashion their lives on it.
I want to warn you that I am not here to intellectualise you; because everything intellectual will externalise you. I am here to tell you the simple truth, the homely truth. And if this homely truth can do something to your heart, then we have succeeded.
To you I say, 'Blessed art thou. In thy presence I am blessed. May you inspire me and may I inspire you.' Om Tat Sat.
The power of your sadhana [spiritual practice] must make every word you utter come true. When you say, 'God protect the teacher,' there must be immediate protection which, though invisible, will protect the teacher. Similarly when you say, 'Protect me,' the purity and power of your sadhana will protect you. There is a kind of a force, a kind of a vibration, that protects you. These mantras are not mere words, they are sacred words that were heard in the depths of the hearts of the Rishis [Seer-Saint-Sages]. Therefore they are not ordinary words. They have in them the metre [rhythm], the force of purity, the force of faith, the force of the Rishi himself. Have faith in the mantra. It will work because the guru [spiritual preceptor] has given it to you. And if you have faith that the mantra will work, it must work.
From a young age I used the [Hanuman] mantra: Om hanumate namah – may no danger befall you. If these words have that power, then every mantra of the Vedas [ancient Hindu scriptures] has the same power.
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