DAILY READINGS
From Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji
691
You should start thinking deeply now. Stop fooling around. You must ask the guru questions out of your own necessity. Then the answer will make an impression, then it will go in deep.
That is why God does not give us God-realisation; it will not make any impression; it will not have the same bliss.
The idea of reading the scriptures is to influence your present will. If you do not read them and understand them properly you go on confusing your past impressions - which are influencing the present will.
Determination comes in once you know the nature of man and what he should do. And though your past impressions influence you to do something, by sheer will, sheer determination, you will only do what the scriptures permit you to do. That is the right thing. Determination comes in when you know what the scriptures want you to do, and then, even if you suffer, even if your life goes away, you will only do that which the scriptures ask you to do.
Ninety nine percent of our people are confused because they think that all they are doing is good. And their 'good' is only coloured by their past karmic actions. But if they want to know the real meaning of good they must look in the scriptures. If we do those things which the great saints and sages laid down in the scriptures for us to do, then that will be determination. You then determine what you should do and what you should not do.
I have a lot of regard for the Muslims because from the time their children are young they start learning the scriptures. Like this a man knows what to do according to his scriptures. And even if he does not do it, it is not that important at the present moment. At least he knows what he should do and what he should not do. Then his future behaviour is of his own making. But we Hindus fail in this regard.
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Sri Ramakrishna Sri Sarada Devi Swami Vivekananda
Swami Nischalananda Swami Shivapadananda
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna - read online
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