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Linda,

thanks again for your interesting story. I have also seen things like

that once in a while. I believe the Divine doesn't care too much for

how many hours we sit in meditation, or whether we can chant good

mantras, or recite the Bible or the Vedas, or even if know how to

walk on water. Like someone said, God laughs at our wisdom, but He

yearns for our love.

Michael

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Hi Michael,

Thank you for sharing the Tolstoy story. A woman that did her yoga

teachers training with me is an avid meditator and yoga practitioner.

During her 5 or 6 hours of sadhana each day she will have incredible

visions and moments of intense crying and profound love. Every year

she travels to India and looks to buy land to teach yoga to poor

Indian woman. One year she and a friend spent three weeks at an

ashram in the northeast of America. After driving home to Atlanta

her friend had to travel farther south to her home in Florida and

while traveling her car was hit at a traffic light and totaled in the

downtown area of Atlanta. Naturally, she called her friend who is a

resident of Atlanta. The friend drops her off at the office of a

lawyer who will arrange for her to get a rental car and tells her I

have to get back to my home to do my own sadhana and just leaves her

there. It isn't until the woman gets back to Florida that she

realizes that not only was her car totaled but that serious injury

was done to her back and neck. However, I do not know if the physical

injuries can even compare to the hurt she felt at her friend's

"detachment".

Yes, the woman in the car accident got the opportunity to face fears

within herself, yes, she rose above the pain and, yes, she realizes

that nothing really can hurt the true self. I just wonder if she

could not have grown through the experience of love coming from a

teacher of spirituality?

Linda

>Hello Linda,

>thanks for your lucid words which have struck some chord within >me.

I don't think the Lord Buddha, or the Lord Jesus, or any of >the

great ones, ever encouraged their disciples to speak much of >their

spiritual attainments, or states of enlightenment. Rather, >they

stressed the importance of the practical virtues, plus >meditation or

prayer.

>Tolstoy wrote this story about a Russian countess who went to see >a

tragic opera in a Moscow theater. The play on the stage seemed >to

move her deeply, and repeatedly during the performance she was >heard

sobbing. When she left the theater the whole set of her silk

>handkerchiefs was soaked with tears. Coming out into the street,

>the countess looked for her coachman; she found him, slumped down,

>on the seat of the coach. After giving him a sharp upbraiding for

>sleeping in her presence, she had another servant open the door >for

her when suddenly with a thud the coachman fell from his >seat onto

the snow-covered sidewalk. While waiting in the icy >winter night for

the end of the tragic opera, he had frozen to >death.

>Michael

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