Talk Excerpt 238. Swamiji says ‘OM, peace, peace, peace’, is a very powerful and effective mantra.

From Mother Radha’s notes, written at Swamiji’s feet.

To become sattvic you do not have to leave out anything. As you become sattvic you will renounce everything yourself.

Sri Ramakrishna was very careful about self-condemnation. He advises us that if we pluck the flower first, there will be no fruit. So wait till it drops off by itself.

Don’t give any advice unless someone asks for it.

If you do perfect sadhana you will get an answer from within to all your questions.

Come to me with your heart, not with your mind.

Think peace: and all disharmony, internal, external and heavenly is destroyed. ‘OM peace, peace, peace,’ [OM is the pranava]. OM is a very powerful mantra. We add OM because that wards off inauspiciousness. Do this morning, noon and night and you will find peace all around.

As soon as Adam and Eve [even if regarded as mythological or merely representational examples] were aware of the pairs of opposites [gunas], they fell.

The sun is full of consciousness of light – but we are only aware of light when we are conscious of darkness.

Meditate on a sattvic Deity [Ishta Devata] and you become Brahman Itself.

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