Talks Excerpt 532. Swamiji says don’t assume that comments made by him are for other people.

From Mother Radha’s recordings of Swamiji.

It is a great pity when I say things like: ‘We do not want any thieves at the ashram, or, nobody must speak ill about others, or, nobody must admire another man’s wife’, that everyone always thinks I am talking to their neighbour. They do not think that they are the ones doing it.

There are no previous scriptures which are as practical as the scriptures of Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda and Sri Sarada Devi. They came at this time to give us the teaching for this Age. Therefore the teachings have to be absolutely practical.

Every speck of ground should be full of God’s name. Take that discipline that improves your life towards the Supreme Goal [God-realisation]. The easiest way is japa.

Master [Sri Ramakrishna] has promised that whoever worships him will surely reach the goal. Have tremendous faith in Master’s words. As you walk out from here, repeat his name. Keep the ground holy with Divine thoughts.

When you want to be alone, it is the Self yearning to see Itself everywhere. Once in a while go into solitude and look at yourself. What are you made of? The best time to do this is at the time of meditation, when you try to concentrate on THAT which is everything. That is when the most precious and the most horrible thoughts come up. People are afraid to see themselves in the mirror of their own minds. But it is most important to see the things which are marring your perfect image, and to replace them with God. The most positive of all positive things is love [bhakti] – love of God.

A God-man slips into God when he loses [outer] consciousness. It looks as if he is sleeping, and he is sleeping, but he is ‘sleeping in God’. The ordinary man when he sleeps slips away in a tamasic state. He also is unconscious but he is like a log of wood.

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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.