TEACHINGS OF SRI SARADA DEVI

CHAPTER-2: THE SPIRIT OF DISPASSION [PART-III]

Sri Sarada Devi

21. "These earthly ties are transitory. Today they seem to be the be-all and end-all of life, and tomorrow they vanish. Your real tie is with God."

  22. "If you love any human being you will have to suffer for it. He is blessed, indeed, who can love God alone. There is no suffering in loving God."

  23. "Always do your duty to others, but love you must give to God alone. Worldly love always brings in its wake untold misery."

  24. "The Master saw dabchicks floating, diving and swimming in the water of Haldar's pond, but there would be not a drop of water sticking to them—they would just shake it off. He gave their example and said that in this world one should live like these—live in the midst of worldly possessions, but from one's mind one should completely shake off the attachment for them. The Master used to teach everybody to live in the world completely unattached."

  25. "Everything is due to desire. What bondage is there for a man who has no desire? You see, I live with all these things, but I do not feel any attachment; no, not in the least."

  26. Disciple: "Mother, the Master loved renunciation, but how little we practise it!"

Mother: "Yes, you will acquire it slowly.  You make some progress in this life, alittle more in the next, and so on. It is the body alone that changes; the Atman remains the same. Renunciation of lust and gold! The Master used to say, 'I can change Kamarpukur into gold, if I so desire, by requesting Mathur Babu to do so; but what good will that do? It is all transitory.'

  27. "Sri Ramakrishna would say, 'Musk forms in the navel of the deer. Being fascinated with its smell, the deer run hither and thither. They do not know where the fragrance comes from. Likewise God resides in the human body, but man does not know it. Therefore he searches everywhere for bliss, not knowing that it is already in him.'  God alone is real. All else is false."

Source: saradadevi.info