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Avoid intense sadhana when ill
Don’t do rigorous [intense] sadhana [spiritual practice] if you have ill-health.
Advice to monastics
What is this business of thinking that money is evil? Money is not evil. Money is good – as long as you don’t take it for yourself.
Grace vs. Prarabdha Karma
The Self only reveals to those It thinks fit. So, even if he is a sinner, you can’t say what karma he could have done. We don’t know. But the word grace has got no qualification.
Swami Shivapadananda with meditation recommendations
The preparation for meditation is important. Firstly, you must have a comfortable asana [sitting position]. You do not have to sit in padmasana [the lotus posture] or siddhasana if it is not comfortable (or if your bones are creaking).
Swami Shivapadananda on experiencing God
It makes me laugh when they say Hanuman [the great devotee of Lord Rama] is not alive today – they are mad. In India a lovely sadhu [holy man] came to where I was and pressed me so nicely for food. He was all red. Only afterwards I realized it was Hanuman himself.
Swami Shivapadananda on the role of the Guru
I ask you to touch the ocean. You do not go everywhere to touch it, you touch it in one place only. That is like the guru. You touch one manifestation of God (though all are manifestations of God), you touch the guru’s feet.