Talks Excerpt 314. Swamiji says: M-Y-O-B [Mind Your Own Business]. Feel it when you say it.

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

A sannyasin knows that everything is God. God is in the form of man, woman, time, space, friend, enemy, and you too. If you keep reminding yourself of this you are a great renunciate.

Holy company is very, very good, but you yourself must become holy. Accept the Self in you.

Ponder over Sri Ramakrishna’s words.

Without patience you cannot walk on the spiritual path. There is no happiness overnight.

Grow calm, grow loving, grow serene. Know that God does everything. Worship your guru in everyone. The guru never goes away.

Watch without becoming involved. Do you think that the eyes see? The tongue speaks? The hand moves? It is prakriti moving them, and you are enjoying it. Before you know this you are impatient.

Go beyond duality. Know that: I act in the waking, dream and deep sleep states. Put your head down. Do your dharma [righteous duty]. This leads to moksha.

Travel to your own goal. M-Y-O-B [mind your own business]. Feel it when you say it.

Worship Sri Ramakrishna with your whole heart. Repeat his name, be absorbed in his meditation. Do not quarrel with anyone. Think of His teachings. He will take you there.

Love all the children of Sri Ramakrishna; do not expect anything in return.

There will be no peace until the heart and the lips become one.

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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.