[2nd President and Spiritual Head: the Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa]
[now a Centre of the international Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission]
DAILY READINGS
Transcribed from the recordings made by Mother Radha
Day 1046
[Swamiji speaking softly and very intently] As you said in the Gujarati song, this world looks like a dark well. A well is a confined place. You haven't got the time to waste to walk about this well. If you really get like that (God-conscious) then where's the time for anything else? Can you tell me? Sincerely? Where's the time? Where is the time for something like that? If that spirit of the words gets inside you, you will be mad (for God). Isn't it so?
To create that madness, we're having satsang. That is the madness. And it's very, very…may I use a funny word? Because it is funny. It's 'the thing [God]' itself looking for 'the thing [God]'. [Swamiji chuckling]. The thing itself looking for the thing. If I didn't love you I wouldn't tell you that. You don't have to go out for this. This is just the opposite of going and seeking. It's not going there to Swamiji, to the altar…every time you reach out, you're missing the point. Stop reaching out. Stop?...reaching out. That is the maya [the divine power of illusion/delusion] – you're reaching out. You are so in the habit, it's become your nature [Swamiji laughs] to reach out. Stop reaching out. Just stop.
How can a drunken man – dead drunk – walk somewhere? Where can he go to? He's drunk. It's like this. [Swamiji begins to sing, "Om tat sat, Om tat sat, Om tat sat Om". [Meaning OM, all is that One].
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For more about the Holy Trinity, and also the founding Swamis of the Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa, please mouse over their names below:
Sri Ramakrishna Sri Sarada Devi Swami Vivekananda
Swami Nischalananda Swami Shivapadananda
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna - read online
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Ramakrishna Math and Mission Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa Ramakrishna Dham
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