Talk Excerpt 577. Swamiji says, ‘Don’t try to be a ‘chhota’ [little] Guru.’

From Mother Radha’s recordings of Swamiji.

Please do not think that you can go about telling everybody about spiritual things and become a chhota guru [little guru] yourself. You will make a blunder of other people’s lives; because each person needs different instructions and certain adjustments.

When we worship the formless aspect of God, it is still a kind of a form. In the case of God with mouth, nose and so on, He takes the form of a particular Being. But if you meditate on ‘feeling,’ then He takes the form of a feeling. When your meditation takes the form of the infinite sky, it is still a form.

The greatest help in my life was japa, and thinking as I repeated. If you do this constantly, you become soaked in the Immortal Name. If your desire is to get God, all else fades into insignificance. When you get drowned in the sea of Satchidananda you become immortal. God’s joy is Bliss Itself. It is not attributes, it is Ananda [supreme bliss] itself, it is That. The sun is fire, it does not give fire.

In all circumstances God is the source of all joy. Always be in tune with God, by self-surrender.

He is everywhere. He is bliss by nature and nothing else. It is not put on (pretence).

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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.