Swami Vishananda talks about Love

When you realise that the only path is to love and to be in love

continuously, you realise how much God loves His creation. The

same way that God loves, the same way you can also love. All other

kinds of love are secondary, because mankind is here to become

Love. But to become this Love, you will first have to overcome many

obstacles, because mankind thinks that Love, God, is something

 apart from them.

Swami Vishwananda in Finland:

Swami Vishwananda said:"People often are sad because they focus on the negative. They search for happiness outside themselves. Introvert yourself and look for the Divine inside yourself. Trust for the Divine inside yourself. If you change yourself your surrounding and your country will also change. It is like when you throw a stone on the surface of a lake, the circles grow more and more. When Goodness is renewed then it will be inner freedom and peace and also outer freedom."

Swami Vishwananda speaks about Dharma

Every body is born for something. What is our dharma? To do what we are doing and to appreciate what we are doing. This is our dharma. For sure our main dharma is to realise the Divine. But how to realise the Divine without accepting how we are and without accepting to do what God gave us to do. When you accept it, the Divine will put you in the right place, He will arrange the things easily.

The Divine Lotus feet of the Guru

Here is an excerpt of one of Sri Swami Vishwananda's Speeches in the Chapel in Springen on Easter 2008.

You will see how important the feet 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.

Divine Love between Radha & Krishna

Today on Krishna's Jayanti- Krishna's Birthday Sri Swami Vishwananda shares following story:

Now you always say Radhe Radhe. In Brindavan actually, they don’t say Hare Krishna, or they don’t even mention the name of Krishna to greet somebody. They always use the name of Radha. Do you know why? Tell me. Because Krishna left Brindavan and they were still angry with him.
Well, there is something to be angry with, you know? Because the Gopis had such Love for Krishna, which is not comparable to any kind of love. That’s why when He left, they were angry. Also the descendent are still angry with him. It’s amazing the love relationship that still today the people have for Krishna. It’s really one to one. It’s like He is the dearest one. They will tell Him anything. They will scold Him even. Once one thing will go wrong, they will scold Him. They know that He is God, but yet the love, that they feel inside their heart is stronger. This closeness, this relationship, this love, that’s what is the most important thing. Our relationship to the Divine, this kind of love our soul has to the Brahmamatma. And if we awake this relationship, it will come.
It is said that the Queen of Gopis, which is Radharani will do anything for Krishna. Name it, she will do it. Even giving her life she will do it. It so happened once the Gopis all sang 'Krishna, Krishna we love you so much'. And everybody was saying 'Oh Krishna we will do that for you'. You know that very well. When you are in love, you just have big, big promises, when sometimes it comes to practice: null, zero.
Well the Gopi also were talking ‘Krishna we love you so much’, but yet Krishna wanted to test them. So one day He pretended to have terrible headache and He was screaming “Aah, I have terrible pain”. Everybody was shocked you know, said “Oh my Lord what can we do for you?” And those who have said they will do anything, said “Lord, we will do anything for you, tell us.” Krishna looked at them all, said Ok, fine. To cure my headache I need the dust of your feet. I need that you press my head with your feet. They all got shocked. He, the Lord of Universe is asking that His head is pressed by their feet. None of them considered them worthy for that. They were very scared that to press Gods head with their feet is so disrespectful. Secondly for sure they will go to hell. So everybody was discussing with each another how would they do that.
At that moment Radha came and she saw Krishna in such a state. So she went to Krishna and said to Him “My Lord tell me”. Krishna said the same thing that He said to the Gopis tell us really what we will do. Then she did what she had to do. Without thinking, without considering about herself she said “Yes” and there Krishna was lying in pain. She start pressing the head of Krishna with her feet and everybody was shocked. At that moment Krishna's headache was gone. Everybody was shocked. They came to Radha and were very angry with Radha and start cursing Radha, saying “Oh you are so bad, you are mean. How come you have put your feet on the head of our Lord? Then for sure you will go to hell.” Radharani said to them “Well, even the deepest of hell will be a blessing for me for it has cured my Lord’s pain”.
So you see in the relationship to the Divine you forget about yourself, completely. You forget about your own realization, you forget about what will make you happy

Giving and receiving love

Our beloved Guruji Sri Swami Vishwananda tells you this morning: If you receive love, let this love flow, you know. Increase this love inside of you, let this love flow. Feel it in each part of your body, increase it and send it out. You can send it to somebody that you know, you can send it to nature, you can send it to whatever, but let this love always flow. You will see, when you have sent this love, when you have increased this love inside of you and you have send it out, nature itself will increase in double what you have sent and send it back to you. And if this round happens, this is healthy. But many people doesn’t do it, because it’s easier just to receive love and then to keep it. So, open up! That’s what is important. 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 you, let it work through each part of your body and also let it flow out, then it will grow.

OM meditation

In South Africa Swami Vishwananda was holding a three days-retreat where he was for the first time teaching the OM Healing meditation.