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Jun 1, 2012, 5:34:18 AM6/1/12

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“You must first purify your mind by keeping company with holy men and devotees

and receiving instructions from your Guru. Next you must undertake hard spiritual

discipline. Only then will you feel a yearning for God.”

Swami Brahmanandaji’s instruction to a devotee at Belur Math on this date.

Spiritual Talks, p.42,

There is no condition for meditation. All that it requires is solitude. It must be

practised not for an hour or for a day. The more you practice, the more benefited

you will be. Go wherever you choose. If you find a place with good scenery,

immediately sit for meditation. Seek Him and Him alone. Give up lust and greed.

First practice renunciation in the mind, drawing away the mind from earthly things.

Swami Brahmanandaji’s instruction on 1 June, 1913.

The Eternal Companion, p.209,

The grace of the Lord is always there; it is never absent. When the mind is purified,

one experiences and tastes fully that divine grace. Self-knowledge is ever existent; it

has no past or future.

Swami Turiyanandaji’s letter to Swami Prajnananda on 1 June, 1916 from Almora.