SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA
DAILY READINGS
Taken from Mother Radha’s
notes, written at Swamiji’s feet.
Day 324
Love and devotion are like a river. If there is no water, there is no
river. If there is no love, no devotion, you are nothing, you do nothing.
Arati [the Hindu waving of a lighted lamp with chanting ceremony, and spelled a variety of ways] is a
candle offered to Him [God or the Guru].
Obey the guru’s instructions. Obey the guru’s instructions. Obey the
guru’s instructions.
When the instruction is given with love why not take it? Do not waste
the opportunity. Give all, surrender all. The only one who understood this was
Radha [the consort and Divine Shakti of Lord Krishna], the other gopis [cowherds]
did not.
Meditate in the lap of your guru. Go higher and higher. There is
no separation there. All is one. Realise it. Pray thus: ‘Speak Lord, for thy
servant heareth [hears].’
Smash the ego, then suffering becomes bliss. Use the guru mantra [sacred
syllable or name of God] in any work you do, it gives power.
Ignorance is destroyed by the society of saints and sages, and the
service of a God-man.
Go beyond fear. Take refuge in the Light of the [higher] Self and the world
is gone.
Do not smack a child, it affects the nerves. Teach a child
discrimination, with love, and explain. A child acts from pure intellect.
Bear jealousy quietly and by slow degrees it humbles you. Confess the jealousy to yourself and this leads to patience.
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