Action Countering Action

 

Compassion Incarnate

Disciple: Mother, one day I had a dream. I saw that a man with shaggy hair came to you and insisted that you must do something for him at once. He had previously been initiated by you. But he himself would not practise any spiritual discipline. You said, "If I do something for him then I shall not live; my body will fall off immediately." With all the earnestness I could command, I forbade you to show any kindness to this man and said, "Why should you do anything for him? He will achieve his own salvation. Let him practise sadhana." As he insisted again and again, you became disgusted with him, did something to him by touching his chest and neck, and said repeatedly, "If I do something for him, then I shall not live; my body will fall off immediately:" Then my dream disappeared. Well, is it true that one's power becomes limited when one is born in a physical body?   

Mother: Yes, that is so. Many a time, disgusted with the repeated requests of some persons, I think, "Well, this body will die some day. Let it fall off this moment. Let me give him salvation." 

- The Gospel of the Holy Mother, P113

Significance of Japa

 

Fingers

 

Moving Wheel

Disciple: Is it possible for one to attain to a higher state if one's Sraddha ceremony is performed in Gaya?   

Mother: Yes, that is true.  

Disciple: Then what is the necessity of spiritual practices?   

Mother: These dead souls, no doubt, attain to a higher state and live there for some time, but afterwards they are again born in this world according to their past desires. After their birth in a human body some of them obtain salvation in this life, whereas others take inferior births to reap the results of their Karma. This world is moving around like a wheel. That indeed is the last birth in which one gets rid of all desires completely.

                       - The Gospel of the Holy Mother, P93-94

Rich and Poor

 

Maheshwar and Maheshwari (Sri Ramakrishna Tithi Puja)