Be sincere

Sri Swami Vishwananda: I’m telling you, it’s not difficult [to realize this Oneness]. If you practice your meditation, sincerely, every day, you will achieve it.
If you love sincerely, you will achieve it.
If you serve sincerely, you will achieve it.
But it’s upon to you to do it.
The sincerity with yourself will be the sincerity that you will give to the outside.

More speeches of Sri Swami Vishwananda in a compiled form can be found here: Just Love

Just feel a bit of this Oneness by listening to this beautiful Oneness Moola Mantra

"Out of a million, only a few willl attain me."- Krishna

Sri Swami Vishwananda is talking about one of the greatest obstacles that keeps us away from attaining the Divine: The fear of letting go. So let's just change and become able to realize the Divine Light and Love of Sri Krishnaji.



Sri Swami Vishwananda:
Isn’t it said in the Gita?
Krishna said: “Out of a million, only a few will attain me.”
Because we hear things, but we are still deaf.
Why?
Because we don’t want to change.
We say “Yes, we want to change.” But in reality, very few, really, really, really sincerely want to change.

Okay, just here now, with a small group- then we will multiply it by a million afterwards.
How many sincerely will do anything to attain, to receive the grace of God?
Sincerely, eh?
Just lift your hand. Anything, I mean anything, any, any, any, anything! (laughter)
Any test that God gives you? You will bear it.
(Devotee 5:Bear it or go into this thing? (laughing))
Sri Swami Vishwananda: Not about going, well, this is up to… It’s just a question.
We don’t need to know what kind of tests God gives us… (laughter) (laughing)
Otherwise it would not be a test. So sincerely.
(Devotee 6: If He guarantees us that we will attain Him if we do it) (Some people are lifting their hands)
Even from those who have lifted their hands I can pick out…maybe one or two from that. (laughing)
(Devotee 5: So and what is then our obstacle?)
Each one has their own obstacle. The fear of letting go.

So why fear? Watch here one of the sweetest videos, i have ever seen. Sweet Krishnaji dancing with His eternal Queen Radharani. Please watch and feel the joy increasing in your heart :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPDTMJ-MWaI&feature=related

The importance of a Guru

This year during Gurupurnima Sri Swami Vishwananda talked about the importance of having a spiritual teacher. Here is an excerpt:

How lucky it is for a disciple, for a student 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 ' hat 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.

Searching for happiness

We are always on a search. A search of who we are; a search of what we are here for. Many times this clicks in your mind, and you ask yourself, “Am I just an incarnation of man born here on Earth?”
You see, this search can last for years and years. You can go around the world, looking for what is deep, to find what will really satisfy you. But, because humans always desire new things, you enjoy whatever you have for some time and then the desire disappears, and then afterwards you desire something else. Humans are always desiring, and you will keep on desiring as long as you desire material things. One desire will lead you to another, but do you think this is really the incarnation of mankind? Come on…No.
Human beings are said to be Satchitananda. This is a Sanskrit word. Sat means Existence; Chit, the Consciousness; and Ananda is Bliss. Everybody wants bliss, everybody wants to be happy. But if you really, really want to be happy, then you have to be sincere and truthful towards yourself. Then you can ask God, “Lord, give me happiness.” And do you think he will refuse you? Him not! He will give it to you. But, it is upon you to maintain the happiness. It is upon you to keep it and help it grow.

Be sincere towards yourself

There was once a Saint in India, who was living as a hermit in a small hut made from grass. A couple came to him and said, “Guruji, we love you so much. We’ll make you a nicer hut, much stronger. Please, come with us.” The Saint said, “No, no, no, no. I'm happy where I am, I don’t want to come.”
After a while, the Saint thought about it, called the couple and said, “Yes, I will come with you, but only if you do me one favor.” The couple was very happy and said, “If you are asking, we'll do anything for you.” To that the Saint answered, “Let me come and live in your toilet.”
The couple was wondering, “Why do you want to come live in our toilet when we want to build a nice hut for you?” The Saint said, “I’d rather stay in your toilet than among devotees or people who are only looking for fame and glory. These people come to me looking only to end their misery, but they are not really looking for God. If I stayed in the toilet, I’d rather bear the smell of the toilet than bear the insincerity of those people... and also the smell of the toilet would keep them away.”
This made the couple realize how people are. People are searching, yes, but they are not sincere toward themselves. Only when you are sincere towards yourself, you will you find your path. When accept yourself, when you accept the will of God, you will accept whatever He gives you as right. When you surrender to His will, when you surrender to His love, then you say, “Yes, God, I believe in you and I trust in whatever you’re doing for me. I trust in your love. I don’t doubt you.”
But when we doubt Him, we question Him, and we are not truthful. Then we say, “God, you have made a mistake.” But how can God make a mistake when He’s so perfect? How can love, which is the purity of your true self, make a mistake? It can’t. It can only be a mistake when there is doubt, when there is fear. But when all of these things are cleared, when all of these things are put away by the holy names of God, which are thousands of names.. then you will see His glory. You will feel His love.