Talks Excerpt 339. Swamiji: One day, with divine grace we will take off the [darkened] glasses.

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

Repeat: ‘This is for God, for the guru.’ You forget? Try again and again. If it works for one, it works for all. We cannot know God so we use the guru.

Devotee: If I do all the things you say Swamiji, I will be a wreck . . .

Swamiji: Wonderful, that is what I want, for the ‘I’ to be wrecked.’

Swamiji reading: Devotion is to fill the heart, mind and intellect with God thought, God love, God Consciousness. There is no room for anything else. But the mind is capricious like a child, one day it cares for japa and the next, only for singing. So we must play with our mind, as with a child, a bit of this and a bit of that. If we put God thought and God’s form there, we will be full of love, and before we know what has happened, love will be our entire being. A flame consuming the dross of ignorance, till purity alone remains. This purity in heart and mind reflects light, the nature of God.

Then only we see God, because we are God. Now we only see through darkened glasses. One day, with divine grace we will take off the glasses and see clearly, and be full of love and light, and that which we thought was separation is union of the Self with all. We will manifest our true nature. We will love all, serve all. We will show by our faces that we know Him; by our fragrance, that we share Him; by our voices, that we are praising Him; by our thoughts, that we are praising Him; by our words, that we are pure and true; by our deeds, that we are love. Then we will be integrated, we will shine with God’s great light, and all will know that ‘I am God’; that bhakta is my only name, my only form; that I have merged with Him.

Determination is the only thing which will make you change a habit. To achieve detachment may take long, but once you get it you will have it always. There’s no two ways about it. So keep trying.

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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.