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💠The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, recorded by her Devotee-Children, Translated by Swami Nikhilananda
💠Recorded by Swami Arupananda
1st February, 1907 [Jayrambati]
One day the Mother lay on her bed while Kamini, the maid, was rubbing her knee with some medicated oil for rheumatism. The Mother said to me, “The body is one thing and the soul another. The soul pervades the whole body; therefore I have been feeling the pain in my leg. If I should withdraw my mind from the knee, then I would not feel any pain there.”
Referring to initiation by Mantra, I said to her, “Mother, what's the need of taking the Mantra from a teacher? Suppose a man does not repeat his Mantra; will it not do for him if he simply repeats, ‘Mother Kali, Mother Kali’?”
Mother: The Mantra purifies the body. Man becomes pure by repeating the Mantra of God. Listen to a story. One day Narada went to Vaikuntha to see the Lord and had a long conversation with Him. Narada had not, at that time, been initiated. After Narada left the place, the Lord said to Lakshmi, “Purify the place with cow-dung.” “Why, Lord?” asked Lakshmi. “Narada is your great devotee. Why, then, do you say this?” The Lord said, “Narada has not, as yet, received his initiation. The body cannot be pure without initiation.”
One should accept the Mantra from a Guru at least for the purification of the body. The Vaishnava, after initiating the disciple, says to him, “Now all depends upon your mind.” It is said. “The human teacher utters the Mantra into the ear; but God “breathes the spirit into the soul.” Everything depends upon one's mind. Nothing can be achieved without purity of mind. It is said, “The aspirant may have received the grace of the Guru, the Lord and the Vaishnava; but he comes to grief without the grace of ‘one’.” That ‘one’.” is the mind. The mind of the aspirant should be gracious to him.
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