Talks Excerpt 551. Swamiji says we must transcend ignorance to conquer fear.
From Mother Radha’s recordings of Swamiji.
Devotee: I can’t remember even one spiritual saying.
Swamiji: That is because your mind is on worldly things.
Devotee: What to do, Swamiji, when the children have problems?
Swamiji: Do japa. That helps them more.
You cannot realise God through rites or sadhana, only by His Grace.
Brahman is bliss, not ‘full of bliss’. The space here [Swamiji points to himself] and the space there [Swamiji points to someone else] is the same. Though the space inside the pot seems different, it is one. For example, Jesus the Christ said, ‘I and my Father are One.’ The ‘I’ makes a difference.
While meditating sit in a relaxed posture. Then the mind will dwell effortlessly on the object of meditation, or on the thought. I do this all the time.
If I see one sixteenth part of truth in you, that is what I will talk about. When you see everything in Him [God] and Him in everything, you don’t see any differences. Just One – You and You alone – then fearlessness comes and fear goes. If I see the slightest difference, fear comes up.
We say: ‘God is omnipresent.’ But we see something else, and fear comes.
All this is consciousness. What is there to fear? Ignorance is the cause of fear. This is a stage we must experience; but we must transcend it. To know that the scripture is not all, we must realise what is in that scripture. The Eternal thing is indestructible.
You must rely on [the Divine] Mother and exert your own abilities. Then you will never fail in life. The guru cannot do it for you; but he can inspire you.
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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.