[2nd President and Spiritual Head: the Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa]
DAILY READINGS
From Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji
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All householders are avatars of Lord Brahma. They should create the first mind-born son - which is sattvic [balanced, harmonious, in-equilibrium] mind. The householders are creators. Vishnu is only a preserver. Shiva is the last, he is the son - not interested in anything else, only interested in one thing: God. He brings up his wife like that too. Shiva is very naughty now and then; he leaves her and runs away to the forest; then comes back again and makes a Ganesha - wisdom. Then he finds: 'O, there is trouble again, wisdom alone won't pay.' Then he makes physical strength in the form of Kartika [Ganesha's brother]. So Kartika and Ganesha carry on Shiva's work.
The wife should have the wisdom. Ganesha was created by Mother. A great honor is thus given to the ladies. They are the creators of great wisdom. And wisdom, to a pure woman, is like the dust of her feet, dust of her body - Ganesha. Highest. And that wisdom is used by a yogi called Shiva. And that crown of all yogis creates Kartika. Not alone. He had to have wisdom to create physical strength. And in that physical strength is hidden wisdom, divine wisdom. In all physicalities are hidden spirituality. Don't look at the physical, look at the inside. Mother's dust. Out of it she created Ganesha: wisdom, divine wisdom.
So you mothers are the wisdom. You can create wisdom because you can fascinate the gods and yet allow the gods to practise self-discipline - just as Sri Sarada Devi allowed a God on Earth, Sri Ramakrishna, to do.
Ganesha was Sri Ramakrishna and Sri Saradadevi was Parvati. Swami Vivekananda was the Shiva that went to preach to all the jivas [seemingly individual living beings]. So worship Ganesha. The guru is Swami Vivekananda. Vivek: discrimination. That's the guru. Vivekananda: have bliss always in discriminating. Sit at the feet of discrimination.
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