Always say I have no fear

Until love and devotion to God grow, one cannot be aware of the transitory and insubstantial nature of the world. The mind is but one; and it cannot be partitioned into compartments, one part given to God and other parts filled with desires for name, fame and sense objects. God cannot be realised unless the whole mind be given to Him. Unless one can do that, one has to be born again and again in the world and suffer endless misery . In order to renounce the world, one need not take the holy orders or retire to the forest. Real renunciation is of the mind. If you give up the world mentally, it is the same whether you remain in the world or in the forest. If you run away to the forest, without completely renouncing from your mind attachment for worldly objects, the world will follow you there also and trouble you just the same; there will be no escape from it . If you have to be in the world at all, make God your world. Set up your home with Him.   Whatever you do, see or hear

* In Jayrambati certain devotees asked the Mother, " When we travel by railway train or steamer, how should we do Japa? " The Mother replied, " You should do it mentally ." She said further, ' Son, gradually your hands and lips will cease to work and your mind only will repeat the name. The mind will eventually turn into your Guru. " * On that day I confided to the Mother my mental weaknesses. She said in reply, " Do you think one can get rid of lust altogether? It will be there in some form or other as long as the body lasts. But then, I tell you, it will be reduced to a state comparable to a charmed snake. " * Once during a conversation the Mother said, " Except for grass and bamboo, everybody will have to come here. " Its implication, as I have understood, is that only those who have no substance in them will be excluded, otherwise everybody else will accept the ideas of Sri Ramakrishna. The Mother communicated similar ideas