Swami Shivapadananda on how our true nature shows through

 

SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA

DAILY READINGS

From Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji

587

[The three Gunas are Rajas at one end of the continuum with Tamas at the other and Sattva at the balance point between them]

   

A rajasic person is a very good person provided that he directs that rajasic temperament towards God, towards sattva. Hanumanji [the great devotee of Lord Rama] for instance has all the qualities but the quality he manifests most is his rajasic quality. He always wants to serve Lord Rama.

Some people are rajasic by nature. Who but a rajasic person would want to play rugby? You can actually identify them by the 'toys' they play with.

If I gave someone a hard clout, [blow] (whether it was his fault or not), who are the people that, on seeing this, would become tearful? Who would feel that sorrowful? Those people who are more sattvic inclined.

There are other people who would say, 'Good, let him have it. Let him get it. He will come right.' They are rajasic people. Others would lazily say, 'You shouldn't hit him, let him do what he feels like.' They are tamasic people.

If your God is Infinite, if your God is Omnipresent, Omniscient and Omnipotent, then He is God. Without these qualities he is a demigod. People have worshipped stone symbols believing them to be Lord Shiva and they have had the highest realisation of God. The thread here is Omnipresence.

Today people worship the same Mother Kali that Sri Ramakrishna worshipped but they only say, 'Cure my sickness, cure my sickness.' They think that Mother Kali can only cure illnesses. So they only get that - even though she could give them God-realisation.

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