Talks Excerpt 264. Swamiji speaks on Japa, colds and prana.

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

Not only at initiation, but even now, the guru is giving you power and you are using it. How do you know it is his? Because you will open up; your intuition will begin to work and you’ll suddenly feel, ‘Ah yes, this is how it goes.’

Sometimes the urgency is there and sometimes it is not. Yes, sometimes when you are with the guru, it is there; but when you are back in the world, it has gone. That is why we must keep going inside, why we must do japa, why we must roll the beads [mala, rosary]. All this helps us. So be aware and seek diligently.

Lying is selfishness and stealing is selfishness.

A great saint said: ‘I am the living stream. Come, take what you want.’

If you keep catching colds then too much prana is escaping from the feet and not enough is replaced. You lie in bed with the feet uncovered. A cold wind blows on them and then you get a cold. Build up the physical body, do breathing exercises and keep the feet warm. What is prana? We do not know.

Take semen for example, divide it and divide it and divide it. What is left seems like nothing, but it (prana) is the vital force [ojas] itself. We do not know what it is, but we see its manifestation.

If someone behaves in a peculiar manner, it is not your business. Just look behind the behaviour. What do you see? God. See It.

Gurudev [Swami Nischalananda Puri – Swamiji’s beloved guru] is good to me, look behind the behaviour, see God. See It.

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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.