Talks Excerpt 313. Swamiji says: First worship your enemies when you meditate.

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

Habits are due to desire.

If your attitude to me is as a man, you are projecting your lower mind. That is, you will see dirt and disease. If you are projecting your higher mind you will see me only as God. This is detachment. This is good.

[At a satsang] So sing now, try to waken the sleeping gods. Try.

Love is complete surrender – giving not taking, not asking.

Christ stands for forgiveness and suffering. First worship your enemies when you meditate.

Be a host to God and take happiness and unhappiness as your guests. Treat them the same. That is progress, devotion.

React only with compassion and love. Then you have learnt. There must be forgiveness, humbleness, sincerity, love, compassion, truth, silence.

Fasting by having only water, must be followed by rest.

In meditation relaxation is the main thing. Relax and hear the wave of repetition of the mantra. Watch it all the time in the back of the mind, see it flow in smoothly.

After meditation, chant and sing different mantras, kirtans, or prayers. Let the words flow from you.

God speaks all the time but when the mind is active we cannot hear Him. When the mind is still we hear Him all the time.

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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.