Talk Excerpt 256. Swamiji encourages us to ‘practise perfection’.

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

The Divine Mother has been an image for too long. Make her come alive. We use the guru within us because he is already living, and we have seen him. Electricity has no power unless the switch is on. Mother gives us the strength to switch it on.

Mother Kali destroys ignorance, evil tendencies, animal passions (tamas and rajas). Mother Lakshmi sustains us in our spiritual seeking, that is, in the power we now have. Mother Saraswati is knowledge, that is, how to use the wealth we already have.

‘I am God.’ Sit for seven days and think, ‘I am God, I am perfect, I am Absolute bliss, I am divine,’ and see the change. As you change your thoughts, so the miracle must happen.

The power of the mantra is so strong that no evil person will come near. You attract only people of the same vibration.

Do you feel anger, hatred? Then your sadhana is wrong – you are wrong, not the other person.

So sit and say, ‘I am God.’ Repeat the mantra with love. There is no guru, no chela, all is Mother. Think: ‘The Earth and I all come from [the Divine] Mother’s womb.’

God’s name is one thing which, when taken sincerely, brings about motiveless love. God’s name is always most powerful. Not powerful; most powerful.

As far as possible be ‘complain-less’ – do not complain!

Bhakti is pure, unselfish, unmotivated love to God’s lotus feet.

Knowledge of God only comes when you are dissatisfied with the present conditions you are living in, and when you know there is something greater and more eternal than this transitory world.

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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.