Swami Shivapadanda on the Omnipresence of God

SWAMI
SHIVAPADANANDA

DAILY READINGS

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

Day 362

 

Prayer: “You open your eyes, Lord, and you see
yourself in the flowers and the stones. In the ears, O Lord, you hear your own
sound reflected back to you in Om [AUM], in swearing, in the screech of brakes and so
on. In the skin, O Lord, you feel yourself in the sand, as warmth. You, O Lord,
think of yourself in everything. You beat in the heart, you push yourself
through the veins. You offer yourself to yourself as the flowers in the shrine.
With every action Lord, you worship yourself.”

 

All answers come from within, or the guru answers
unasked.

 

When are you going to get tired of all this, the
world, fighting and so on?

 

Anything you do with a motive is not love.

 

The ego is the biggest habit, it conditions all your
actions. Curb it.

 

Think: ‘I desire only God.’ Your only desire is to
hold the guru’s feet all the time. Never let go, never weary of it. Then
spiritual action takes place.

 

Why do we fear to die? Because we have a misconception
of death. Can I be born? Can I die? Can I change? Be patient, go step by step.

 

You cannot make God give you realisation, only He
decides. He does what He wants.

 

You easily ask the guru for a mala [Hindu rosary of
prayer beads] but are you prepared to pay the price? This is what my guru asked
me. It took me three years to see the meaning – that the mala is priceless.

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