Talk Excerpt 343. Swamiji: The guru takes the chela’s (disciple’s) karma.

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

The guru is one, is light.

I go to the guru when I realise I am ignorant, and that this ignorance is dreadful, and is causing all this unhappiness.

The guru helps to dispel the darkness. The light must be there, but unless I am awake it will not do anything for me.

Craving is caused by contact with the senses. Meditation breaks the contact.

From sensation comes thought and ideas. And these lead to desire.

If the past worries you, ask Mother to bury it. Live in the present. Be attached to God’s feet, not to the past.

To be an instrument of peace, I must be peace myself. To become love, we must be rid of all other qualities.

Evil is turning away from God. Good is turning towards God.

See the murthi as living, as moving, as sitting. You think it has no life? It has. See it.

The seed [bija] mantra is the navel [umbilical] cord to the guru. He switches it on and so on. The guru takes the chela’s (disciple’s) karma, he absorbs it into himself. For example, cancer and so on, he can take it and plant it in his own skin, and watch it.

Happiness and sadness – they are all in the mind. See this, and say, ‘I want only God, not the mind and senses, only God.’

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