Swamiji is given the ochre robe by his Guru. Talk Excerpt 204.
From Mother Radha’s notes, written at Swamiji’s feet.
God comes in the forms of blessing and blame, hurt and comfort. Silence is another form of God. When you know the Truth, there is silence.
Gurudev [Swami Nischalananda Puri] gave me the ochre robe and said, ‘Because you are my child, take the ochre robe. Your relatives will bring you down.’ I thought Gurudev was talking out of his hat but I found that unwittingly, I was slowly getting caught up in the petty squabbles of the relatives.
The book, ‘Holy Mother as I saw Her,’ is a very good book, you should read it.
Meditate on your Ishta Devata [Chosen Deity or Personal Ideal], as full of compassion, light and smiles. Worship [and see] the Ishta Devata especially in the poor, the downtrodden, the sick, the illiterate, the blind, the deaf and the tortured in mind and body, those with thoughts of anger, depression and hatred. Pray that He puts positive qualities there – love, compassion, mercy, truthfulness – that He makes us humbler than a blade of grass.
Read the book The Life of Swami Vivekananda by Eastern & Western Disciples.
To be with Sri Ramakrishna was a kind of austerity, of spiritual discipline. It needed concentration of the highest order to follow his highest thoughts.
Realisation is the only goal. When realisation dawns all arguments cease. Sri Ramakrishna spoke only in the language of realisation. Realisation is the true religion. The silence of insight was Sri Ramakrishna’s greatest teaching.
Sri Ramakrishna went into samadhi [a superconscious state] to avoid the devotee’s argumentations. He was utterly human. He would do what no one else would do. He would find God through conquering lust and gold.
With sincerity all is possible.
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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 an individual or a group of people with him, at the time.