Swami Shivapadananda

Sri Sarada Devi’s purifying touch and vision

[Pictured: Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother and nun-wife of Sri Ramakrishna in bodily old age]

SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA

[2nd President and Spiritual Head: the Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa]

[now a Centre of the international Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission]

DAILY READINGS

Selected from Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji.

Day 948

Sri Sarada Devi [the nun-wife of Sri Ramakrishna,also known as the Holy Mother] said, 'Truly I am your mother. In times of trouble remember you have a mother.' Mother has love, love, love, for every part of her creation.

Holy Mother also said, 'I am the mother of the virtuous and the sinner.' The only thing you have to do is to accept her and love her personality. You can only do this when you become those qualities.

When someone speaks negatively - think of the Holy Mother.

Many came to her, thinking they were sinners, but Mother only saw saints in disguise, and she converted their lives for higher purposes.

She purified others by cooking for them and serving the food with her own hands. Like this, Mother purified their very intellect.

She comes in all forms.

May you know you are on her lap and she is in your heart.

1) Care should be taken by the reader to understand and take Swamiji's words in these postings, in context. Every teaching or instruction that he gave was specific to the people who were with Swamiji at the time. 

 2) Mouse-over the words highlighted in red in the posting for further explanation or links.

There are currently available, over 100 different CDs or DVDs with mp3 files, of Swamiji speaking. Please email timhoare@webmail.co.za to order. 

Click HERE for the second website on Swamiji's life and teachings.

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

Reference websites - please mouse over the name and click to connect:

Ramakrishna Math and Mission    Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa    Ramakrishna Dham

Mantras to the Divine Mother

SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA

DAILY READINGS

From Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji

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One day Swami Ramakrishnananda, whilst looking at [Holy] Mother  [Sri Sarada Devi - pictured above in bodily old age] with his whole being full of emotion, started saying the three mantras that you read in the prayer books today.

Om sarva mangala mangalye shive sarvartha sadhike

Sharanye tryambake gauri narayani namostu te

 

Shristi stithi vinashanam shakti bhute sanatani

Gunashraye gunamai narayani namostu te

   

Sharanagata dinarta paritrana parayane

Sarvasyarti hare devi narayani namostu te

   

Swami Ramakrishnananda used to prostrate fully, shasthanga pranam [i.e flat on the face, full-length on the floor arms and hands stretched forward in prayer position], and utter his prayers, cry and roll on the ground. That feeling is captured in these prayers which are uttered in every Ramakrishna Ashram, both here and in India. They represent the love that Swami Ramakrishnananda had, felt and saw. They represent the truth: who she was. They are from the Devi Mahatmyam but he saw that they were applicable to Sri Sarada Devi herself.

Every morning I recite these prayers to Her and then I say:

Om jayanti mangala kali bhadrakali kapalani

Durga kshama shiva dhatri swaha swadha namostu te

   

Ya sri svayam sukritinam bhavanesu alakshmi

Papatmanam kritadiyam hridayeshu buddhi

Sraddha satam kulajana prashavasya lajja

Tam tvam natasma paripalaya devi vishvam

You are the One who preserved the whole universe; if you preserved the whole universe, Ma, will you not preserve me? You must preserve me too.

1) Care should be taken by the reader to understand and take Swamiji's words in these postings, in context. Every teaching or instruction that he gave was specific to the people who were with Swamiji at the time. 2) Mouse-over the words highlighted in red in the posting for further explanation or links.

There are currently available, over 100 different CDs or DVDs with mp3 files, of Swamiji speaking. Please email timhoare@webmail.co.za to order. Click HERE for the second website on Swamiji's life and teachings.

Sri Ramakrishna    Sri Sarada Devi     Swami Vivekananda  

Swami Nischalananda  Swami Shivapadananda 

The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna - read online

Reference websites - please mouse over the name and click to connect:

Ramakrishna Math and Mission    Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa    Ramakrishna Dham

 

Holy Mother Sarada Devi

SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA

DAILY READINGS

From Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji

674

   

Sri Sarada Devi was understood by Swami Vivekananda more than by any other of Master's [Sri Ramakrishna's]  disciples. He said, 'You people don't know Holy Mother yet. The Mother's blessing is a hundred thousand times more than the Father's blessing.' That is what he said, and how true. If Sri Ramakrishna became great he only became great because he worshipped Mother Kali. And who is Mother Kali? Master himself said, 'That which is worshipped in the shrines, the bad woman that is walking the streets, the mother that gave birth to me, and the one that is pressing my leg [i.e. Sri Sarada Devi] is the same Mother Kali.'

Is that mantra that you utter itself not Sri Sarada Devi? Mantra is shakti, and it reveals the purusha or the [Ishta] devata Itself. So the mantra itself is Sri Sarada Devi. Respect it.

Holy Mother's life is so very pure that if you decide to read, to understand and to learn about her, and if you try to live a life of modesty as she did, not only can you bring God into this world but you can take this world to God. Mother's life is very pure. She has come to uplift men and women alike. The gods came to uplift mankind.

You must read the lives of Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda and Sri Sarada Devi. You must become saturated with the teachings of these three. You must speak about it, live it, breathe it.

Swami Vivekananda, Swami Ramakrishnananda and others served the Master but Swami Saradananda served Sri Sarada Devi. He loved her so much. He knew where the shakti came from.

1) Care should be taken by the reader to understand and take Swamiji's words in these postings, in context. Every teaching or instruction that he gave was specific to the people who were with Swamiji at the time. 2) Mouse-over the words highlighted in red in the posting for further explanation or links.

There are currently available, over 100 different CDs or DVDs with mp3 files, of Swamiji speaking. Please email timhoare@webmail.co.za to order. Click HERE for the second website on Swamiji's life and teachings.

Sri Ramakrishna    Sri Sarada Devi     Swami Vivekananda  

Swami Nischalananda  Swami Shivapadananda 

The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna - read online

Reference websites - please mouse over the name and click to connect:

Ramakrishna Math and Mission    Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa    Ramakrishna Dham