Talks Excerpt 373. Swamiji tells how Lord Krishna and the Divine Mother accept pure-hearted offerings even from so-called ‘outcasts’.

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

Practise mauna [speech and mental silence]. Just sit quietly, but do not let evil thoughts come in. Keep repeating God’s name.

Devotion is all you need. When Sri Rama was in the forest, the Rishis prepared a great feast for him. But he was happy with the fruit, given by an outcaste woman, who tasted each fruit before she gave it to him. The priests complained and said her love was motivated. But Sri Rama said that she was thinking only of him.

After Durga, the Divine Mother, had killed Chand and Mund [the two demons] everyone went to worship her. But one outcaste man was not allowed to go near her. So he sang a song:

Yes, yes, go to her, prostrate to her, all you people, go.

But if I were a Brahmin, I would offer sacrifice to you, Ma.

Go all you people, go. If I were a gardener, I would offer her a garland.

Go all you people, go . . . .

He went on in this manner and in the end Mother could not bear to hear her child cry like that. So she got off her tiger and came running to him and embraced him.

The heart is captured in this way too. It cannot get away. Where Krishna is, Radha is not always there. But where Radha is, Krishna is always there.

You mistake the body for That (Brahman or God), so you only see That when you see this [i.e. Swamiji’s body].

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