Swami Shivapadananda with thoughts on development

SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA

DAILY READINGS

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

Day 330

 

We all need to practise self-control and meditation.

Know thyself. Know That. Melt in That.

How to deal with desire, food, pride, hate, jealousy? Deny each one and
it dies a natural death. Jealousy is seeing the other person with your eyes,
i.e. with faults. Take jealousy away and see only perfection and purity.

Become
a master. Realise, ‘I am God, he is God.’ This leads to God-realisation. If you
worry whether God likes you or not, this leads to trouble.

Do your duty perfectly. This makes you free. You are nothing. Make up
your mind. If I am humble He will raise me up. Surrender to Him and He will
raise you up. We liberate ourselves by loving one another.

Remember God in thought, word and deed.

A child’s nature is open minded, receptive, sensitive, warm hearted, and
friendly. Freedom is as the water is to the wave, not the wave to the wave.

Be the dust of His feet, then He will carry you.

We read in the Yoga Vasishta: The present moment is infinity, it is more
powerful than all the ages gone by.

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1) Care should be taken by the reader to understand and take Swamiji’s
words in these postings, in context. Every teaching or instruction that he gave
was specific to the people who were with Swamiji at the time.