Talks Excerpt 523. Swamiji says God is everywhere, He is in everything – sentient and insentient.
From Mother Radha’s recordings of Swamiji.
[Swamiji continues speaking on Prahlada].
May this Prahlada, this guileless child, that is the crown of all bhaktas, bless us with pure devotion to the Omnipotent, Omniscient Lord. May he bless us, to see through his eyes, to see Maha Vishnu. May we see the Lord ultimately, not only in living things but even in that which appears to be dead – in the sentient and insentient things. Yes, He is everywhere, He is in everything. He is hidden like cream is hidden in milk, He is hidden like water is hidden in ice.
May this Lord Vishnu, who is none other than your Source, your sustenance, bless you and give you the same realisation that Prahlada had.
It is indeed fortunate to die by the hands of God, (this blessing came to Hiranyakashipu through his son Prahlada), because when the philosopher’s stone touches anything, that thing turns into gold. And when God Himself touches anything it turns into God. May that touch of Sri Maha Vishnu be ours – that is my prayer.
If you have set a good example for your child and given him the highest moral values then, no matter how many evil influences come, no matter how expert the evil teacher may be, you will find that ultimately righteousness will shine. So do not get worried when your child goes away from you. If he has grown up in a holy atmosphere, he must come back to where he started.
The devotion of Sri Ramakrishna, and other great saints and sages, is true. If it was true then, it must be true today too.
Holy Mother [Sri Sarada Devi] loved to cook for the devotees. No matter how late they came she would get up and cook for them. But our thoughts can be just the opposite. Holy Mother’s mind did not work like that. She only thought she was doing a service to Sri Ramakrishna’s devotees. She felt that they were her children, just as much as they were Sri Ramakrishna’s children.
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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.