Talks Excerpt 540. Swamiji says: Holy Mother’s acceptance of all, put Her at real risk of being ‘outcasted’.

From Mother Radha’s recordings of Swamiji.

[Swamiji continues speaking about the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi].

The only thing left for you to do is to accept it and love her personality, then from the personal you can become impersonal. You can only become impersonal when you become that quality. It remains personal as long as you see that person as separate from you. No sooner do you not see the person, than it has become part of you.

You are good because she was good. If you keep saying, ‘She is good, she is good,’ it means you are not yet good.

So please, whilst you have her photograph here and there, look at it a couple of times during the day and speak to her – in your own fanciful way – and tell her your trials and tribulations. Tell her your weaknesses, as if she did not know them. Tell her those things as if you are telling your earthly mother. Sincerely try your best to turn away from negative, narrow thoughts and become the Universal Mother that she has become.

It was not easy in those days in India to accept Western people. They were regarded as maleech – a low caste who eat pork or beef. People would say, ‘They are so defiled. Do not allow them in my temple or near my person.’ But the same Holy Mother took Sister Nivedita [a disciple of Swami Vivekananda] and made her sit almost on her lap. She found in Sister Nivedita that the ‘touch-me-not’ for others was actually a diamond in disguise.

How many other people must have looked at Sister Nivedita and rejected her? What did the Holy Mother see that she accepted her, that she even made them build a school in her name, that she even served her by getting prasad and giving it to her? At that time it was not easy for a person to do this; above all for one of the Brahmin caste to do this. Holy Mother accepted her, even at the risk of being rejected by the so-called orthodox, learned people.

But you and I cannot do it because we are so afraid of what our neighbours are going to say, we are so afraid of what our friends are going to say. But she did not care even if she was excommunicated [became an outcaste]. She knew she was looking at purity, the purity of a child of God.

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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.