SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA
DAILY READINGS
Taken from Mother Radha’s
notes, written at Swamiji’s feet.
Day 46
An
Excerpt from a Book by Swami Yatiswarananda
The importance of the heart centre is that that is where you first feel
the Supreme Spirit, the Soul of our soul, paramatman. This is a special seat of
the personal God. It is there in the heart that His special power is manifest.
The spiritual experiences begin in the heart centre. The devotee is blessed
with visions of God. And visions bring the conviction that the soul is separate
from the body. When you enter the heart, body consciousness is forgotten. Then
you develop the subtle senses.You must have purity, chastity and intense
spiritual hunger.
[Sw.S] You must increase the yearning in your heart to know God. Sri
Ramakrishna says we must become restless to know God. He was so restless that
he took the sword in the temple and was ready to slash his own throat.
Book: There is the limited and the
unlimited but they are not separate.
Feel the Atman [soul], seek it, experience it. Contact the individual and the
Universal Centre for divine consciousness within you – and outside you. It is
an infinitude of consciousness; the light of intelligence.Each body is the temple of Brahman [the supreme formless consciousness].
[Sw.S] Remember this. In the beginning it is all just imagination. When I say, ‘See the Deity,’ or ‘See the Lord standing on a lotus,’ you imagine it first. Later the light of intelligence takes over, then it is not vain imagination, it is real.
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