Swami Ramdas reading list pdf:
'Hints to aspirants.'
https://www.anandashram.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Hints_To_Aspirants.pdf
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'In quest of God'
https://www.anandashram.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/In_Quest_of_God-1.pdf
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'In the vision of God'
https://www.anandashram.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/In_the_Vision_of_God.pdf
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From Swami Ramdas:
The path of pure and simple Bhakti is one of the easiest means to reach the all-powerful feet of the Lord.
Self-surrender is the goal.
Pure aspiration and ceaseless meditation constitute the path. All else is secondary.
By constant practice, keep your mind ever tuned to the infinite Truth.
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Self-surrender denotes a life lived in accordance with your exalted spiritual nature.
Dwell in the Divine and act as inspired by Him within you, having no doubt or fear.
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The end of all Sadhanas is total self-surrender
which means giving over your individual life into the complete control and guidance of the supreme Lord
and thus remain ever in a state of perfect oneness with Him.
It is He alone, within you and without you, that makes you act every part in this world-game.
Realize this and be free from all bondages, and
enjoy the ecstasy and peace of immortality.
Complete surrender to God denotes the divinisation of life.
Face all the vicissitudes in life by throwing yourselves completely at the mercy of the Almighty Lord.
When you are made to go through the fire of suffering, you can come out of it purified and strengthened.
Such suffering constitutes real Sadhana for attaining God.
The more bitter it is, the more rapid becomes your spiritual progress.
God-realisation does not mean living in worldly comfort and opulence.
It means living in peace and freedom, whatever the external conditions may be.
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The real sadhana is not to forget the Self.
Bhagavan said, ‘Keeping the mind in the Heart is self-enquiry’.
If you cannot do this by asking ‘Who am I?’ or by taking the T- thought back to its source,
then meditation on the awareness ‘I am the all-pervasive Self is a great aid.
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Bhagavan often said that we should read and study the Ribhu Gita regularly.
In the Ribhu Gita it is said: ‘That bhavana [mental attitude] “I am not the body, I am not the mind, I am Brahman, I am everything" is to be repeated again and again until this becomes the natural state.’
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part 4 AS
Only those who have learned how to be still
can abide in the Self.
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AS: If you can focus your mind on this ‘I am’ you need not do anything else.
You do not have to cultivate a particular attitude towards it.
If you keep your attention on it, it will eventually reveal all its secrets to you.
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