Talks Excerpt 371. Swamiji says the mantra is perfect and all-powerful. It’s complete in itself.

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

The mantra is perfect. It has all power. It gives you all that is necessary, it is complete in itself.

What is the need for books and so on? Repeat the mantra all the time – or think: ‘I am not the body, not the mind, I am pure Spirit.’ In one year you will have great visions. You will be inspired by what you see inside.

[Specific instructions to a particular devotee]: Devotee: I do not know where to concentrate when I repeat the mantra. Swamiji: Close the eyes. Where does the mind rest? Devotee: Between the eyes. Swamiji: Then that is the natural place for you to focus your attention. Link the mantra with the breath and visualise the Deity – the Ishta Devata – between the eyes. [It’s important to note that Swamiji gave different sadhakas different instructions for the location of their meditation focus.]

You must get up before 5 a.m. if you are not able to get up at 4 a.m.

May the mind become still, stiller, stillest. That is why you imitate the Guru, so that later on no one can point a finger at him through you. Only when you have taken all the punishment are you fit to be the dust of his feet – because he carries not only his cross, but yours too.

Ma [the Divine Mother] controls me inside. She does what She wants. I cannot control it.

We must have devotion and guru-seva. [Service to the guru]. Must. He only is great who enables me to see the greatness of the guru. A great man never says, ‘I am great,’ or ‘I am humble,’ because he knows that all is done by Him [the guru].

Every kick you get is the grace of your guru, it is a blessing.

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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.