The meaning of true devotion to God.

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> kalipadma writes:

> I had a friend who was a Kali bhakta, and (for a

> while) a priest of the

> Sivananda Order. When he tragically died young, his

> wife (!) held a

> Pagan memorial, where some Pagans denigrated Kali

> for taking the Bhakta

> from us. I stepped up, and said, "Don't attack Ma

> Kali -- Peter loved

> her as much as any other Deity."

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And let us not forget that Ramakrishna Paramahansa

died slowly and painfully of throat cancer at the age

of 50. If anyone should have had a long life and a

quick painless death, one would have thought it would

be Kali's supreme devotee..but not so! If you are

worshiping a Deity in order to gain material benefit,

then you cannot be said to be a true devotee at all,

just a "fair-weather friend"!. The true acid test of

one's devotion to God is to keep to that devotion no

matter what circumstances one is faced with.

Withdrawing one's devotion in the face of one's own

suffering just shows one's own true agenda!

Ramakrishna lived-and died!-to teach people the

meaning of true devotion to God. What sort of example

would he have set had he suddenly renounced his

devotion because he was suffering as millions had

suffered? Suffering is a fact of life, and it is a

conviction of mine that bearing one's suffering

patiently and dispassionately is a powerful form of

karmic balancing. To be angry and bitter with one's

lot in life (which is, after all, the fruit of one's

very own karma), and worse, to die in such a state is

to egotistically "burn up" the spiritual energy

potential contained in the experience that would have

otherwise gone to "pay" towards one karmic debt...thus

the wheel of suffering continues round and round, just

as if one had spent money on oneself that was intended

to pay a debt that one owed to another.

Lilith M.

"Though Thou slay me, yet will I trust in Thee!"

The Book of Job

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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