13 April 2025
Sunday
When there is hard rock below, you have to bore deeper for tapping the underground perennial pure water. The softer the subterranean soil, the quicker the success. Make your heart soft; then, success is quick in sadhana. Talk soft, talk sweet, talk only of God – that is the process of softening the subsoil. Develop compassion, sympathy; engage in service, understand the agony of poverty, disease, distress and despair; share both - tears and cheers with others. That is the way to soften the heart, and help sadhana to succeed. Satsang is like quaffing pure crystal water. Dussang – the company of the vicious, the ungodly, the impure – is like quaffing saltwater from the sea; no amount of sugar added to it can make it quaffable! It increases thirst.
From Swami’s discourse of 10 May 1969
Also on words from this discourse: The Fire Latent in the Wood, 14 April 2025
When there is hard rock below, you have to bore deeper for tapping the underground perennial pure water. The softer the subterranean soil, the quicker the success. Make your heart soft; then, success is quick in sadhana. Talk soft, talk sweet, talk only of God – that is the process of softening the subsoil. Develop compassion, sympathy; engage in service, understand the agony of poverty, disease, distress and despair; share both - tears and cheers with others. That is the way to soften the heart, and help sadhana to succeed. Satsang is like quaffing pure crystal water. Dussang – the company of the vicious, the ungodly, the impure – is like quaffing saltwater from the sea; no amount of sugar added to it can make it quaffable! It increases thirst.