Daily Reading 15. Swamiji on the realness of Sri Ramakrishna’s experiences – and Swami Vivekananda’s vision.

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

After many spiritual experiences Sri Ramakrishna said to the Divine Mother, ‘O Mother, if all these divine experiences of mine be true, this large boulder here will jump up thrice [three times].’ And this happened as soon as Sri Ramakrishna said it!

Swami Vivekananda said: ‘I am born to organise these young men [his fellow disciples] and I want to send them rolling like an irresistible wave over India, bringing comfort, morality, religion and education to the doors of the meanest and most downtrodden. This I will do, or die.’

Swamiji Shivananda Mahapurush [a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna] was asked, ‘When is happiness obtained?’ He replied. ‘When you eat delicious food, hear melodious song, and the mind becomes tranquil. And where is tranquillity? In our own hearts. When the mind is calm, that happiness is reflected in it.’

Feel for others. Peace is your essential nature. What can be better than that you forget me and remember Him [God] only. Life is very precious. It is meant to help us know and understand, ‘What is the Truth?’ Truth is God and God alone.

He alone is living who makes the best effort to solve life’s problems – to know and to be in communion with God, with one’s own Self and with the Self of all. Others merely exist.

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The free-to-read or download, 396-page Flipbook version of Swamiji’s biography, ‘A Life Lived For Others‘, is available by clicking HERE. If you’d prefer the PDF version, please click HERE.

For our gurubhai Atmaprakash Kramer’s beautiful pictorial ‘memoir’ booklet of the Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa, Avoca Ashram, please click HERE.

There’s also a Facebook site for Swamiji’s posts now. They feature newer readings published more recently. Click HERE to view.

These recordings or the excerpts from them, were made from the early 1970s onward, by Mother Radha, a close devotee of Swamiji’s and edited for uploading here by our gurubhai and her son, Brother Tim. Please be mindful that what Swamiji was saying may have been specific to those with him at the time.