Swamiji on Spiritual Fitness

SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA

DAILY READINGS

Selected from Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji.

Day 480b

 
 

Swamiji reads from Sri Ramakrishna and his Disciples by Sister Devamata, and comments

For many years Balaram [Bose] had devoted the major portion of his time to devout meditation and scriptural study.

Swamiji: Balaram was spiritually fit before he met Sri Ramakrishna. That shows what kind of a pure soul he was. He gave himself every day to meditation and scriptural studies.

Do you study the scriptures? The scriptures should be read every day. And you should give yourself to meditation according to your guru's prescription. Do not think that you have become so clever that you can prescribe your own meditation.

Reads: Keshab Chandra Sen [pictured above] was in his country home in Orissa at that time, but when he came to Calcutta for his daughter's marriage he went to Dakshineswar to meet the Master.

Swamiji: Keshab did not feel proud. He was doing his sadhana [spiritual practice]. He was a spiritual man. He did not say, "What am I going to the ashram [monastery] for? I am doing it at home." That kind of thought should be spat upon. You may think that you are doing yourself a favour by not going for satsang [communal prayer service] but you do not know that so much ego is getting built up in you. If you went there, someone's love, someone's remark may just humble you. Thus Keshab went to the satsang, he went to meet Sri Ramakrishna.

Reads: Balaram Babu's widow told me that it was their habit to spend Sundays with the Master, always.

Swamiji: How many of you like to spend each Sunday with me? You say, "It's too much." How many of you like even to spend Sundays in a temple? "It's too hot. It's boring." I have heard many people say, "It's boring." What is boredom?

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