[2nd President and Spiritual Head: the Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa]
DAILY READINGS
From Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji
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And when you get your mind this purified, again and again, dip it in the dye of God's name [via japa – the meditative repetition of a mantra or one of the many names attributed to God], or names – the thousand names of Vishnu or Shiva - God. Recognising these thousands of names of God, you can take any name as long as you think of the divine Satchidananda [Existence, Knowledge, Bliss – Absolute]. Then your mind is pure. And when your mind gets pure, God becomes your slave. Then God becomes your slave because He knows that he does not have to perform [through your body and mind] adharma [impure mind, unrighteousness]. God will never go [associate] with a person who has adharma [impure mind] because God knows this fellow will make Him do all the wrong things. If you have a friend, you think if you know that fellow's going to go and steal and tomorrow get caught and put in jail – you think you'll want to go [associate] with him? God knows this. I will not go with an impure man, though I'll give him shakti [power] to live but I will not associate with him. I will not reveal myself because somehow he'll make me do adharma. So I am not going to associate with those people who do adharma.
Until such time [purity of mind] comes, you and I will not get God – forget it! Otherwise God will not be light – God will then be darkness. Because God is like the sun that does not know what darkness is. And you can never put darkness on that which is light. Having this at the back of your mind, let us proceed…what?....how?...to purify our hearts.
But one most important element Arjuna [Lord Krishna's disciple] had and that was [God's] grace. What is grace? Grace is that which sustains you through thick and thin, to do the right thing, called dharma [righteous living, acts]. Through thick and thin. It is called a kind of strength that will always keep you afloat – no matter how stormy the sea of Samsara [life, birth, re-birth] is. It will not let you drown. And that grace has come to you and me in the form of [being] a human being. In the form of? Human being. Because the animals haven't got that. They are still led by instinct. We are quite distinct from animals. Because we have intellect [buddhi].
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The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna - read online
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