Talks Excerpt 441. Swamiji says, [On humility]: We do not want the tree to tell us how much fruit it has, we will see that fruit ourselves.

From Mother Radha’s recordings of Swamiji.

[Yoga Camp/Retreat talk continued from Talks Excerpt 440.]

The word ‘becoming’ is a very, very elusive word. In reality that ‘becoming’ is not becoming – that becoming is only being.

Your purpose here is to stop this ‘becoming’, and when you stop all this becoming then naturally you are. You begin living in your real Being – which is called by various names: Self, Atman, Paramatman and so forth.

It is very, very necessary to gauge your own progress in terms of your own sadhana. Enquire deep within yourself as to how sincerely you are, looking for these impurities. You must enquire within yourself to find those things that will help you perceive the purity – and also the impurity. Remove the impurities and never cooperate with your mind when it seeks to do anything else – otherwise you will cause harm to your spiritual life.

Whilst doing this, you must be very, very careful not to force your ideas on someone else, or even mistakenly tell somebody how holy you are, or how many experiences you have had. For we do not want the tree to tell us how much fruit it has, we will see that fruit ourselves and we will know the tree.

The whole purpose is to be pure and humble. The humbler you are, the purer you will be, and the purer you are the more selfless you will be.

Search within and ask yourself just how much you think about others. How considerate are you to others’ pains and miseries, or discomfort? Look at this rather than living the old life of making yourself comfortable.

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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.