The Master Said .... 24 - Swami Sivananda

25/02/2017.

Speech delivered by Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj on the 26th December 1954, at Sivanandashram, Rishikesh, for the celebration of the 34th birthday of Sri Swami Venkatesanandaji.

    Jyotishaamapi tat jyotih tamasah paramuchyate
    Jnaanan Jneyam Jnaanagamyam hridi sarvasya vishthitam

    (That, the Light of all lights, is said to be beyond darkness; knowledge, the knowable and the goal of knowledge, seated in the hearts of all.)

24.

    One old man wants to take Sanyas.

He is still postponing it.

“You have got Moha for your son,” I said. “Yes, I have,” he says! Look at the force of Samskaras.

He who is living with Sanyasins in this birth will gather sufficient Samskaras now to take Sanyas next birth.

One girl has come here; she has taken Sanyas.

I thought she won’t be able to pull on and, therefore, refused to give her Sanyas.

The Sanyas-spirit sometimes comes and goes.

She observed Satyagraha; she did not take food for three or four days.

Her mother came to be and said: “Give her Sanyas.”

Her father also blessed her.

Then I gave her Sanyas.

Such is the force of good Samskaras.

It won’t allow you to lead a worldly life.

When spiritual Samskaras begin to take effect, it is like the atom bomb bursting.

To be continued ...