Talks Excerpt 426. Swamiji says: If you cut [slaughter] a goat you have to become a goat.
From Mother Radha’s notes, written at Swamiji’s feet.
Studying the Upanishads can be very dry because all superstition is stripped away.
If you cut [slaughter] a goat you have to become a goat. [Swamiji said the same of slaughtering a cow.] Says Swamiji: I swear that anything desirable must have a result. Only when you have no desire do you go above birth [samsara].
Just as a silkworm makes a cocoon and becomes a moth, so we go through a dark period, i.e. one birth to the other birth.
Devotee: What is reincarnation? Swamiji: It is like taking a child from one breast to the other – the child does not remember it. The breast is Mother Nature. It is changed and you take a different birth. So be very careful, don’t get attached to family, otherwise at the time of death you will think of something and next birth you will become that.
Swami Yatiswarananda says: Repeat the Divine Name [any one of the innumerable names attributed to God – or the mantra given by the Guru] and remember the Lord. And do not ask others to bend, but bend yourself.
What is the remedy? We must awaken our spiritual consciousness and think we are the Atman, not the body.
The chakra point [location] is the contact point between the subtle and the physical body. This is very, very important. It is a beautiful description. It seems that the soul is immortal, the subtle body is the intermediary and the physical body is the outer.
Be one with Satchidananda. Share the love and bliss with others.
Pray for light and guidance. This leads to peace through spiritual practice [sadhana].
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