Words of Sri Swami Vishwananda

"I will always remind you that you are Divine!Even if my mouth gets tired,my heart will still say it,until you reach this level"

Sri Swami Vishwananda talks about........

Let pure Love guide you. When you realise the purity of Love, there will be no difference in your mind. The mind will see the Lord everywhere.

Sri Swami Vishwananda tells us today....

"Know that every moment,every second,every time you think of something positive,you think of God,you think of something nice,you receive this love of God,you receive this energy of God-let it work through each part of your body and also let it flow,then it will grow."

Giving up your own interests

"True joy lies in giving up your own interests to make others happy"

-Sri Swami Vishwananda-

Words of Sri Swami Vishwananda......

"Our soul is always longing for Him, always. There is not a time, where the soul does not long for the Beloved. Even if we are conscious, we are aware of it or we are not aware of it. But in our true self, in our consciousness, the soul-consciousness is always aware of that."

Sri Swami Vishwananda talks about........

"Everybody wants to get liberation quickly.But how many people really want to surrender?Everybody wants liberation, but only a few people want to surrender.Only a few people want to let go of and say:“Lord, yes, I let go of everything, this is all just an illusion.I surrender to you!”

Sri Swami Vishwananda tells us......

"The more you advance in spirituality the more you will advance in discovering this love and the more your path will become clear. So this is the main foundation of spirituality, love, just love and nothing else."

Sri Swami Vishwananda tells us today

Discipline helps us to calm our mind, because when the mind is very agitated on the spiritual path, we can’t concentrate. We can’t really focus ourselves on our heart. So even if you want to focus yourself on your heart, your mind is jumping, jumping, jumping. So we do our Sadhana. We chant, we practice Yoga or we do Om Healing or Atma Kriya to calm the mind. It helps that we can listen more clearly to ourselves and realize the Divine within ourselves. Not just tell somebody “Just do your Sadhana and meditate and you will attain God"... It’s true: If one is sincere towards oneself, one will attain God, because God will come to that person and will manifest itself, the heart will manifest itself. But yet we look at the world and ask “How many people really are sincere towards themselves in that way?” We are so busy with what we see outside, what we think. We want to always analyze everything with our mind, that we give so much less importance to the heart, even when we know that “Yes, we have to be in the heart, but we see how dominant our mind is."So without saying “Yes, I want really strongly to follow, I want to change and I want really to attain my goal, it's difficult.”We can outside say “Yes, yes, yes I want this”, but inside we say “Wow, it’s far away”. As long as you see this distance and are discouraged, you will not enjoy your practice. It doesn’t matter how big the distance is. Keep trying. And never loose hope.

Sri Swami Vishwananda talks about........

You see when little things happen in one's life, very often people put in on such a big platform, forgetting the greatness that such a little thing can show.

So, if one forgets about the tiny things, the ego, the pride and is humble one will attain discipline, one will attain His love and one will get greater things.

Words of Sri Swami Vishwananda

"Oh Lord, God,
let your light reflect
completely upon me
so that whenever people see
me,
they don´t see me,
they see you and feel your
love.

May I become the instrument
of
your love in every second,
every moment."

-Swami Vishwananda-


"Make me a channel of your peace.".....watch this Video!

Sri Swami Vishwananda tells us today.....

Life is a learning process. Everytime, you go through learning processes. Everytime in life, you learn new things and if you have not learned something now, it’s a round circle. You come back to it and you will learn again.

Sri Swami Vishwananda told us once a story about Krishna

When he was dancing with the Gopis, he manifested himself and one time he disappeared. At the moment when he disappeared, the Gopis realized what they lost. Then he manifested himself again, showing “Hey, I’m not far away from you. You are in me and I am in you all the time. Why are you running after this manifestation of pain and happiness?" That’s what he said: “If you want to attain me, rise above happiness and pain.” Then only you can realize, because otherwise we are only bind by our emotions.

God is seated in the heart

In the mind you know that God is seated in the heart.
And the power of the mind is so strong, you know it, no?
When you worry for little you can make the worry like this much.
The same thing with Love, you know?

If you know that the Lord is seated in your heart, just that much, you can make him known, make
yourself know that he is seated that much also.

"Sri Swami Vishwananda"

Sri Swami Vishwananda tells us today.....

God is ever looking after everybody, you have just to trust that he is looking after you, to trust that he is with you all the time, whatever you do; good or bad, he is there! And his love pervades everything. If one percentage of your heart opens up to this Divine love, it’s enough.


This Video is sooo beautiful......

......so we just need to trust God!!!

Sri Swami Vishwananda talks about Bhava.....

Sri Swami Vishwanada is talking about the progress on the spiritual path. When we reach different forms of Bhava (Divine states of ecstasy and love for God) we develop more and more love towards nature, people and finally the whole Universe. There is no more inside or outside. We are fully one with God and ever present.
Here are some advises from Sri Swami Vishwananda that can help one on the spiritual path:


The more you see, the more you advance. The more you see that there is more and more to go. Till finally, when you are face-to-face to the king, there is no question, there is no doubt, there is absolute peace, even more than that: There is this absolute love.
So if your aim is to attain that, no matter what comes on the way: Trust, never loose hope, and you will reach there.
The Divine is ever present around you.
He comes in many forms to help you. With the eyes of your heart you shall see and you shall feel him.
So practice.
Practice not the opening of the mind, practice of opening the heart.
So that you can love unconditionally.
You can love and feel the Divine love inside of you, and not only inside of you, but everywhere. The easiest way to do that is to…? (Someone: to sing) (Someone: to chant)
Try to be calm. (Laughter) (laughing)
Chanting is good. Chanting helps to calm the mind, but in silence you are coming in.
So....
Jai Gurudev!

The only thing that we can give to him is our heart

Very often people try to compromise with God, people try to bribe God. It is not possible... or actually; it is very easy to bribe him, you know how? You can bribe him by loving him, by letting him steal your heart. You see, often we approach the Divine with such a pride and in an egoistic way. We think that we can give him everything, forgetting that everything belongs to him already and that the only thing, that we can give to him is our Heart.

Here a lovely Song " I give you my heart"

What is the Love of God?

Sri Swami Vishwananda speaks about........" We are all running after the Love of God, but what is the love of God?
The Love of God is the Love that you can express.You express Love towards the Divine, but of course, it doesn’t have to be only to God, but to anyone who needs help."

Sri Swami Vishwananda tells us today.....

....how lucky it is for a disciple to have a teacher in one life. In the Hindu tradition, we consider the Guru even higher than the Mother and the Father.

We can say ‘No’ to the Mother, we can say ‘No’ to the Father for something that we don’t want. But when the Guru says something we don’t say ‘No’ to him. Even if it is not to our own perception how it has to be, because we like things to be our own way. Don’t forget that on the spiritual path you are face towards the opposition of yourself, so that you can learn to transcend. The question will arise where to find that teacher? Here, inside of you. He is not far away. When you feel deep inside of you that person is my teacher, he can help me to attain the Divine', give yourself completely to that person.

Of course here in the West we understand it in a different way, because we like to say “Yes I want to follow this, but that is also good.” Well, all the ways are good. You are free to do whatever you want. But if you go to a mathematic school or a mathematic tutorial, you will not expect the mathematic teacher to teach you French.
So you can’t expect the spiritual teacher to teach you something else. Such is life. When the soul yearns for the Divine, then the Divine comes, like the Gita said. Krishna said “Not everybody can attain me, but they can come to me through help. I will come to them in the form of a teacher. Through that they will attain me.” This is how life is. We reincarnate ourselves, but life becomes so boring, that we don’t know where to go. Then we turn towards God and say “Help”. God is always merciful. He always comes. When you call sincerely, He will always respond.

Watch this sweet Video of our beloved Guruji!!

Longing for God

Love can also be joy. It's not only always hurting. There is a mystical joy, a mystical form of love, that you can even discover in pain. This pain is not a pain of just saying “Oh, I’m having pain.” Like for example: yesterday I went to this place, I hit myself and now I have pain. It’s not a physical pain and it’s not an emotional pain, that you create with your mind, saying “Yes, I want to be painful today”. Pain of love is so intense. The Saints know about it.
Their hearts pain to be with the Divine. They cry for it. Read the life of St. Francis. Do you know how much he was crying always?
But it does not have to be always that intensive.
Right now we are talking about the pain of love, but St. Francis also had great joy.
This insensitivity can also manifest itself as being painful. It's not really painful, but it’s a longing for the Beloved One.

Sri Swami Vishwananda tells us today something about........

You will see how important the feets of the teacher are.
When you go to a Hindu Temple,the first representation that you see are the feet of the Deity.
The first thing that you do is to bow down before the feet.
You go to the Master and you bow down in front of the feet.
You bow down to the greatness.
You bow down to the Divine inside of you.

You bow down to the Father within the Teacher.
And that is what *Christ said.
He said it word by word.
I don’t even need to comment on it.
[* Christ said: “My Father and I are One.”]

It is very clear that this non-duality of God is within man.
On the way to God-realization
You will not reach God-realization with pride.
You will not reach it with arrogance.
You will reach God-realization only when you are humble.
And people will be against you.

But you know where you are going and you know why.
So, meditate on that.

" Om Guru Bramha Guru Vishnu

Guru devo Maheshvarah

Guru Sakshat Param Bramha

Tasmai Shri Gurave Namaha"

Radharani´s love for God....

Sri Swami Vishwananda explains us...... You can quicken your way to the Divine and realize Him or you can just sit around and make it longer, which many people like to do.
But, everybody at the end will reach the Divine, because the essence of yourself is only Him.
And only through this Love, when this Love really gets awakened and becomes like Radharani's Love, then there is no chance of not attaining Him.

Radha is Love itself.
As mentioned in the Gita:
“Only when one develops Love as Radha has for Her Beloved… one will attain the Beloved.”
Which means, like I have said, only when one develops the
ultimate Love for God, one will reach the Divine.

And here a very beautiful Bhajan, enjoy it!!!

It is time that you awake.......

Cross over this limitation, face it, don’t have fear. Start firstly with little things. You know yourself. You know that God will always provide for you. If an animal knows that - we are bound by more qualities than an animal. So we can realize who we are. We are all one family, that what we call humanity. Everybody talks about humanity but very few really behave human (laughter). So, if we call ourselves we are part of this society, we are part of humanity, we have not to behave like an animal. Even animals behave better in society. Because they know who they are and they know where they are leading to. They trust in the higher consciousness that God will always provide.

But poor us human beings- us who have more than just an animal, we like to degrade ourselves. We like to make ourselves worse. It is time to cross over this limitation. It is time that you really let, what you have inside of you, awake!!!!

And here another sweet New Year's message from our beloved Guruji Sri Swami Vishwananda:
"Wishing you all a Happy New Year - may the blessing of the Divine be with you all in this new coming year. May the resolution to change and opening the heart be your goal - much Love and Blessings."

Sri Swami Vishwananda tells us today.....

“It’s not what we see outside. It’s not what we judge in the outside with our minds, but, for once, truly listen to your heart, really listen to the call of your heart. The call of your heart will reflect the call of your soul, and only when you listen carefully to that not listening to the mind, not saying “yes” to the mind, when it says “I want Realisation”, without knowing what it is. The mind doesn’t comprehend certain things. The mind doesn’t even comprehend what Love is, so how do you think the mind will comprehend what is greater even than Love itself?...”

Celebrating God

The singing of Bhajans and the chanting of Mantras and Stotras is one of the oldest forms of worshipping God. For many people it is one of the easiest and most pleasurable ways to get close to Him, awakening joy and love in one’s heart. It is not exclusive to any spiritual path and practically all paths include singing as a central element.

In the ancient Hindu scriptures, the singing of the Lord’s many names, Kirtana Bhakti (devotion through the singing of God’s names), is described as one of the nine ways to express or experience love for the Divine. Through the singing of the Lord´s names, one can experience complete stillness of the mind or, at least, the interruption of one´s day-to-day thoughts and worries.

Let us celebrate......

Only for God......

Sri Swami Vishwananda tells us something about humbleness and acceptance. How important it is, to do everything in every moment only for God.Not for anybody, not for yourself- just for God.. We should be always aware, that he is there in every single moment, in every situation. This is a very easy way, to let God come into your life, to let him be part of it.


Enjoy this beautiful Song!

The deeper meaning of Christmas

Sri Swami Vishwananda tells us......

So…For me, with the years you understand the deeper meaning of Christmas, you know? It’s not just a festival that you go to Churches just to… they all like to go to the Churches for midnight mass or I have been to Bhajans singing. It’s not about that, you know? It’s true that Christ has been born probably some 2000 years plus. It’s about celebrating. Because He brought something new to the world, which is forgiveness, Love. Many Avatars have come.

They all have brought Love, but the Love was not really forgiving. Many Saints have come, prophets have come, but the Love was just “Yes, I love you”, but there was always a condition to the Love. And also if you did something wrong to them, you would get back what is wrong. But what He brought is this forgiveness.

That’s why in the prayer they keep reminding of the forgiveness of forgiving what you have done wrong, forgiveness of yourself actually.

First forgive yourself. It’s not about God forgiving you, but it´s about forgiving yourself first . And focus on the Love that you carry inside of you.

And Christ is born- Yes.

It’s nice outside to celebrate Him, but He is born inside each one of us.

And this rebirth is not only because of Christmas time.

He is born continuously in each cell of your body.


To all of you " Merry Christmas"!!

One can't attain the love of God by studying, by austerities, by penance. The only thing that you want really to attain him is to awake this pure love from your heart.

And when this pure love from your heart awake, you surrender yourself completely. And in this pure love you will find everything. And that's where surrender starts.

And when this pure love gets awakened, when surrender has started it develops, it grows...It grows into 6 steps of love.And this sixth step of love it's when the lord becomes very close to you. It's when God becomes very close to you. As you surrender to him he surrenders to you also . And that's real spirituality.

Sri Swami Vishwananda wants.....

I want all of you to realise the love of God that is inside you.And not only that,I want all of you to become an instrument of this love and share it around.Bring this love to everybody.You don’t need to go and hug the person or whatever to share the love of God.Just by the reflection of your face,this light will be passed on wherever you go.

So easy to spread love says Swami Vishwananda

Swamiji  Vishwananda encourages us again and again to love and to spread love. And he always says that it is so easy. But what do we do? We think about, how we can spread love, instead of just radiating love.

A few days ago I had a nice experience with one of my sisters here at Shree Peetha Nilaya regarding spreading love. It started with me getting annoyed with her and I expressed my anger. When I saw her the next time in the temple for prayers I could suddenly feel love for her. I was surprised about this lovely love-feeling, because in my mind I was still clinging to my anger, also my anger with myself. But this is what we humans love to do, we attach ourselves to the negative. It came quickly to my mind that she must be sending love to me. To send love to somebody with whom you have a conflict works miracles each time. Try it! Later I could ask her, whether my impression was right that she was sending love to me and she confirmed. You can send love in many ways, for example to send light, in all colours, silver, gold, you can imagine how the other is being showered with love-light. It is so simple. And the good thing is that you also benefit. That´s how love multiplies by giving. It is so simple, we just have to want it. We just have to give ourselves this little kick to get over ourselves and to send love instead of stupid thoughts.

Prajna

Swami Vishwananda tells you today:

You are all here for one truth. And this truth is love. This love which is equal to all mankind. This love which is present deep in each one of your heart. Which is waiting and want to come out and express itself. But so often there is blockage. So often there is a knot that stops … a wall that stops man loving unconditionally. When you realize the only path is to love and to be in love continuously, you realize how much love God will, how much God love his creation. Same way God love, same way you can love also. All other kind of love is all secondary. All other kind of love is all secondary because mankind is here to become love.

Swami Vishwananda tells a story about Jesus

Jesus was sitting in the Heaven and thinking, “Maybe the world has changed. Let Me go on Earth and see. Two thousand years ago, I was there, but because I said, ´I am the Son of God´, they put Me on the cross and crucified me. But there were no churches at that time. So, let Me go and see, maybe they will recognize Me, and welcome Me. They will know, that I am here for there own good.”

So, Jesus came in Bethlehem, where He was born. There He saw a church, and He was walking towards the church, when, at the same time, the Mass was finished. People started to come out from the church, and they saw a man coming, who were dressed like Jesus. So they all started to make fun of Him, “Oh, look at this mad man who is dressed like Jesus. What do you think he is?” Jesus was shocked, and said, “Oh my Goodness, I thought that after thousands of years, that they have been praying and calling to Me, they would recognize Me. But here I am, and they don´t even recognize Me.”

Jesus went to them and said, “Don’t you recognize Me?” The people said, “Oh, you are just a mad man, who is dressed like Jesus.” Jesus answered, “Oh, no, no, no; I am Jesus, you were just praying to Me in the church!” But they said, “Nooo, he is mad.” Jesus thought,” My Goodness, how come they don’t even know Me now?” The people finaly told Him, “You better go away, before the clergymen come.” But at the same time, the clergy was coming, and Jesus went to him and said, “Hey, I am Jesus!” The clergyman said, “You mad man, keep quiet!” Then he took Jesus by force, brought Him inside and locked him in the sacristy.

So poor Jesus was locked in the sacristy, and He could not understand what was happening. He thought that after two thousands years, with many churches around and people who are praying, Christianity is well flourished and they will know. But no, poor Him, He was locked inside. So He sat there and waited. At night, He saw a light coming. The clergyman was coming with a lantern and opened the door. And when he opened the door, he fell at the feet of Christ and said to Him, “Please, Master, forgive me.” Jesus asked “why?”And he said, “You know, I did recognize You, when I saw You for the first time in the morning, but You see, the people are not ready to accept You. I locked You in here, because You will start talking the truth and it would be inconvenient for You to speak the truth. People will never believe You, because they believe in the clergymen now.” said Swami Vishwananda

Satsang of Swami Vishwananda in Moscow in October 2010

At the question: "Why is it so difficult to love?" Swami Vishwananda answered: " Because of the judgment one puts on the persons. So, try not to criticise anybody; try to love not for the etiquett: because he/she is like this or like that but FOR THE SAKE OF LOVING. More you will try and more you will really love unconditionally.

Swami Vishwananda tells you today:

In India, there is a place called Puri, and there is a temple for Lord Krishna in the form of Jagarnath. He is an aspect of Krishna; a funny one. Every year, there is a big festival where they bring the deities out and carry them in the streets. Millions of people gather there, and all the people, even the king, will go and help cleaning the streets where they will bring the chariot of the Lord.

It happened that one day a very rich merchant came to Jagarnath, and seeing the Lord together with his brother Balaram and sister Subhadra, he said to himself, “This is just a mere wooden statue with big eyes, big smile. It´s just a black statue.” Then he said very proudly, “I will show how wealthy I am, and I will give one hundred thousand rupees.” So he went to the priest ans said, “Priest, I will donate one hundred thousand rupees to the temple to feed the Lord! But I have one condition: you have to use all this money for the food.”

The priest thought,”How will I use one hundred thousand rupees only for the food? Even if I would use the best ghee and all the best ingredients to make the prasad for the Lord, still the money would not be finished.” So all the priests gathered together and started discussing, “How could we finish one hundred thousand rupees for the prasad of the Lord?” Finally the highest priest came to a conclusion, he said, “OK, it seems that we can’t take any decision, but let Lord Jagarnath Himself, Let Krishna Himself take the decision.” They went to the merchant and said, “Listen, we haven´t come to a conclusion, but we will let the Lord Himself decide which kind of prasad He would like to have. Meanwhile, please stay with us until the Lord Himself will tell us what kind of prasad He wants....

to be continued tomorrow... :)

Swami Vishwananda tells you today:

God has given you an intuition to follow. So you have to learn to listen to the intuition in a calm way. You'll be able to hear your intuition only when you're calm. And you will be able to accept what your intuition is telling you. Often I've seen people listening to the mind, and said, Swamiji, I have been listening to my intuition, but actually it's not like that. This is the difference between the intuition and the mind, it is two different kind of voices you will hear. The mind voice is always flattering you, will always say you are the best, whatever you are doing is good, you should do other more things like this. Whereas the intuition, the intuitive voice inside of you is sharp and direct, and it's not flattering.

Swami Vishwananda tells you today:

There was once a king who did lots of sin in his life. He knew that he would die soon. So he went to see a guru in one ashram. But when he went there, the guru was in deep meditation. So he waited, and waited, and waited, but the guru didn´t come out of his samadhi. The king saw that the son of the guru was there, so he called him, ”Please, your father is in deep samadhi, and I can´t wake him up, I can´t tell him to come out, so you tell me... Look, I have spent my whole life in hurting people and doing bad things, but now I realize that I have to change certain things in my life. Tell me how would I forgive myself for all this?” The son thought for a while, and said, “Chant three times the name of Rama, and all your sins will be forgiven but of course you have to chant it with faith, you can’t just chant it with the mere mouth.” The king was very happy. When the guru came back to himself, the son was very excited and said, “Father, father, you know, the king came here!” And he explained everything about why the king had been there. Then the father asked him, “What did you tell him?” The son said, “I told him to chant three times the name of Rama, with faith, and that all his sins would be forgiven.” The father got very angry at that moment, and said: “My son, I curse you, because you don´t even know how powerful the name of Rama is. You didn´t need to tell him to chant it three times; even one time would have been enough!”

Swami Vishwananda tells you today:

Radha stands for a single pointed devotion to Krishna, without limitation.This is the ultimate aspect of devotion. Pray to her to grace you with this devotion. Then real bhakti will awake inside of you deep within your heart.