Swami Shivapadananda with tips on making spiritual progress

SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA

DAILY READINGS

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

Day 313

Habits are due to desire. If your attitude to me is as a man, you are
projecting your lower mind, that is, you will see dirt and disease. If you are
projecting your higher mind you will see me only as God. This is detachment.
This is good.

(At satsang – prayer service): So sing now, try to waken the sleeping
gods. Try.

Love is complete surrender, giving not taking, not asking.

Christ stands for forgiveness and suffering.

First worship your enemies when you meditate.

Be a host to God and take happiness and unhappiness as your guests.
Treat them the same. That is progress, devotion.

React only with compassion and love. Then you have learnt.

Water-fasting must be followed by rest.

There must be forgiveness, humbleness, sincerity, love, compassion,
truth, silence.

In meditation relaxation is the main thing. Relax and hear the
wave of repetition. Watch it all the time in the back of the mind, see it flow
in smoothly.

After meditation do different mantras, kirtans [devotional songs],
prayers. Let the words flow from you.

God speaks all the time but when the mind is active we cannot hear him.
When the mind is still we hear Him all the time.

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