13 July 2025
Sunday
You must all realise that the relationship between you and Me is not related only to the physical body. Thinking only of the physical relationship, you should not waste your life. The body is a passing thing. You should concentrate on the attainment of that which is permanent and beyond the limitations of time and space. You have seen for yourself and experienced the Divine here. You must carry with you this experience and enlarge it by contemplating on it internally. Here is an example. Thousands have assembled in this Poornachandra Hall. I have been conversing with you. How long can this last? Perhaps for two or three hours. Tomorrow you will all be returning to your respective places. After you go back, the memory of what you have experienced here, Swami’s discourse to you, and the presence of thousands of devotees in the Poornachandra Hall will be etched in your mind whenever you try to recall this day. It will be a lifelong possession for you. This is because you are carrying Me in your mind. Looking at things externally, the Poornachandra hall will be before you for only a short time. But you must retain permanently what you have seen with the outward-looking eyes.
From Swami’s discourse of 24 July 1983
You must all realise that the relationship between you and Me is not related only to the physical body. Thinking only of the physical relationship, you should not waste your life. The body is a passing thing. You should concentrate on the attainment of that which is permanent and beyond the limitations of time and space. You have seen for yourself and experienced the Divine here. You must carry with you this experience and enlarge it by contemplating on it internally. Here is an example. Thousands have assembled in this Poornachandra Hall. I have been conversing with you. How long can this last? Perhaps for two or three hours. Tomorrow you will all be returning to your respective places. After you go back, the memory of what you have experienced here, Swami’s discourse to you, and the presence of thousands of devotees in the Poornachandra Hall will be etched in your mind whenever you try to recall this day. It will be a lifelong possession for you. This is because you are carrying Me in your mind. Looking at things externally, the Poornachandra hall will be before you for only a short time. But you must retain permanently what you have seen with the outward-looking eyes.