Swami Sivananda Vani

[Guest guest]

DIVINE LOVE: It was way back in the late thirties. When a Christian

friend was taken by the Master and left in the Ashram dining hall, the

Hindus there stopped eating and walked out in the middle of their

meals. Hearing of this, the next day the Master took the Christian

into the kitchen itself, spread a mat for him to sit and served the

meal himself. Seeing this the inmates raised no more objections.

 

On another occasion, food had to be sent up the hill to the Muslim

overseer supervising the construction of the Ashram temple. The

disciple in charge of the kitchen sent the rice and rotis in a leaf

and the soup in a clay cup. The Master came to know of this. The very

next day he was at the kitchen at mealtime and saw to it that the

overseer's food was sent in a plate and bowls instead of in a leaf and

clay cup. And he told his disciple in charge of the kitchen, " God asks

a man not his caste or creed but only if there is love in his heart. "

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" The Guru lives in his teachings. When you are living the teachings of

the Guru, you are in the deepest contact with the Guru, you are in the

deepest state of yoga with the Guru. " - Swami Chidananda