Swami Shivapadananda on what to really seek
SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA
DAILY READINGS
From Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji
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[Swamiji continues speaking on Hanuman]
Hanuman broke the diamond necklace given him by Mother Sita . . . .
Then when the question was asked: 'If Sri Rama is in everything do you mean to say he is in you too?' Hanumanji replied, 'Yes. My Sri Rama, the Paramatma [one supreme soul], is in everything,' and he tore open his chest. 'Sri Ram jai Ram jai jai Ram. Sri Ram jai Ram jai jai Ram.' And whilst the blood was flowing Sitaram [the conjoined RamaSita] was seen to be resting in his glowing heart. (While Mother Sita and Sri Rama were inside, do not forget that they were outside too. God is within and without.)
You may ask: 'If Sri Rama is Omnipresent then how is it that Hanumanji did not find him in that [japa] mala?' There is an example in the scriptures that clarifies this: Yajnavalkaya said to his two wives, 'I have this land and I want to give you each half.' Gargi, one of the wives, asked, 'Will this wealth give me God-realisation?' Yagnavalkaya replied, 'No, it can't give you God-realisation, money won't give you God-realisation.' So she said, 'Then I don't want it. I want [only] that which will give me God-realisation.'
Sri Ramakrishna said the same thing. He said, 'What am I to do with a bread-winning education? I want that kind of knowledge knowing which I know everything.' Similarly, the diamond heart-shaped necklace given to Hanuman only had worldly value; you cannot buy God with it; it cannot help you to think about God; it may even make you think about Ravana [the demon king]. So therefore Hanumanji, the bhakta [devotee], put no value on diamonds and jewels. And that is why he broke it and threw it away. He showed that Sitaram [the inseparable Lord Rama and Mother Sita duo] was inside him and by inference, everyone knew that God was Omnipresent and that God was inside them too.
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