SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA
DAILY READINGS
From Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji
622
[Swamiji continues speaking on the Bhagavad Gita]
[Lord Krishna says] I am the intelligence of the intelligent.
You can have no pride whatsoever that you are a learned man. God says that intelligence is Him too. So how can you say, 'It is I who am intelligent'? You are not intelligent. Take that life out of you and you are a dead body. Can a dead body be intelligent? Do you have control over your life?
How many of you say you do not want to die or that you will only die next year? You will find that you have no control over it. So the controller is God Himself; and therefore He is the owner of it and not you.
The splendour of the splendid objects am I.
Wherever you see 'splendidness' [or splendour] it is God Himself.
Of the strong, I am the strength devoid of desire and attachment.
This is His higher nature He is talking about now. His lower nature will be with desire and with attachment.
'Of the strong' - who is strong? Of those people who have no desire whatsoever, he is the strength.
Earlier on in the Bhagavad Gita he explains: 'I have no work to do but yet I do the work so the others can follow . . .' Work for what? To purify the mind and reach Him.
An ordinary man, a sannyasi [monk] or a holy man who becomes a selfless worker will actually be expressing Sri Krishna's nature itself.
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teaching or instruction that he gave was specific to the people who were with
Swamiji at the time. 2) Mouse-over the words highlighted in red in the
posting for further explanation or links.
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Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda, Swami Nischalananda Puri, Swami Shivapadananda Click Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna to read online... Reference websites (please mouse-over
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