Talks Excerpt 384. Swamiji says: When I take instructions from the guru, I must remember that he is telling ME, specifically.

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

The words of the guru are [Divine] law. Carry them out to the last letter.

If you think your guru is at the ashram, you are limiting him. See him smiling in your heart now.

Devotee: But how do we know what the guru is, Swamiji?

Swamiji: Do not think about that, just be. Be content with what comes. This is a blessing. In the whole world, only the guru’s love is pure, because he is the only one who loves without motive. But we do not see that, we doubt him.

Meditate on Christ as a child, innocent. He did not see saint or sinner, he smiles on all. We take [holy] communion so that we may sacrifice the body as he did. The wine is the blood, the heart.

Christ’s teaching was all love, love, love. He was childlike. All must have a guru. Even Christ went to John the Baptist, though Christ was greater than him.

When I take instructions from the guru I must remember that he is telling me specifically.

Never raise your voice in front of a superior.

When will you stand firmly on the guru? The guru is like an ice block which floats on the sea.

There is a reaction when the discipline does not come from within. Whatever discipline the guru advocates must enter into you, and bless you from within – just as a flower comes from within a plant.

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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.