Month: January 2021

27/01/2021

Jai Ramakrishna (Today is the sacred birth-day of Revered Swami Turianandaji Maharaj. May he bless us all with Bhakti.)

29th June
Swami: “ ‘None else, He alone is my all in all’—when you will feel like this and will not rely on anything, then will you be right. Now you are depending on earthly things, on wealth, man, and learning.
Even great scholars get mad by a single screw getting loose in the brain. We do not rely on God. We rely on our money, our relations, our friends.
But ‘O king, know that He is the treasure of those who have nothing.’ When nothing will intervene between you and Him, then you will realize Him.
Sri Krishna had broken all the ties of the Gopis. But their sense of shame still remained. That tie also he broke at last.
When the Lord sees that man is finding it hard to give up anything for Him, then He Himself takes it away.
‘O Lord, take all things away from me, even those that I have kept hidden in my inmost heart.’
‘If, O man, thou wilt cross the ocean of relative existence, thou must give up desires for earthly things.’
“The Master used to say, ‘Do whatever you like after making the knowledge of oneness your own.’ That is to say, know the Lord as the soul of your soul, the life of your life, the eye of your eye, and love Him. Nothing else than this, such as asking things of God, is true devotion. Supreme devotion cannot be had so long as there is the slightest desire in the mind.”