SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA
DAILY READINGS
From Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji
Day 551
[Pictured: Udbodhan House in its original state at the time it was inhabited by the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi.]
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 [meditative repetition of a mantra or one of God's many names]. That helps them more.
You cannot realise God through rites or sadhana [spiritual practice], only by His Grace.
Brahman [the indivisible One consciousness] is bliss, not 'full of bliss'. The space here [Swamiji points to himself] and the space there [points to someone else] is the same. Though the space in the pot seems different, it is one. For example, Jesus the Christ said, 'I and my Father [God] are One.' The 'I' makes a difference.
While meditating sit relaxed, then the mind dwells 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 tell.
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 go through - 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 [spiritual preceptor who is actually God] cannot do it for you but he can inspire you.
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words in these postings, in context. Every teaching or instruction that he gave
was specific to the people who were with Swamiji at the time.
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