Talks Excerpt 618. Swamiji says: Out of the billions that are marching on the spiritual path, only one perchance, will realise God.

From Mother Radha’s recordings of Swamiji.

[Reading from the Bhagavad Gita]:

[Lord Krishna]: Among thousands of men, one perchance strives for perfection; even amongst those successful strivers, only one perchance knows Me in essence.

Thousands of people are going to churches, ashramas, and mosques but they may be going there to meet their friends, or to increase their business interests and other things. Out of them, one perchance strives for perfection. Only one of those thousands will have the desire to know God.

You can see how many people we get here when there is a big puja or at the opening of an ashrama, and see how many of them become God-realised!

Only one perchance knows Me in essence.

Out of the billions that are marching only one will realise God. And do not think that the thousands of yogis who are in this garb [ochre robe] are God-realised. ‘Only one perchance will realise God.’

Do not start running about from one guru to another guru. No matter what the guru is, just stick to your sadhana and the sadhana itself will carry you through. The idea is that you want to reach 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.