karma and true devotion to God.

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***it is a conviction of mine that bearing one's suffering patiently

and dispassionately is a powerful form of karmic balancing***

 

 

You only escape the wheel of samsara by not having ego-based,

emotional reactions to the events of your life and you do that by

having your consciousness firmly grounded in the Divine,

however you choose to see that Divinity. Being grounded in and

devoted to the Divine all the time enables you to move through

life with an infinitely wide and profound perspective knowing that

the events of your life are, as you point out, karmic results of

former deeds. As such they are not worth stepping out of your

connection with the Divine and becoming emotionally involved

with them.

 

It is one thing to be Self-realized. It is another to work off your

accrued karma. The first step to working off accrued karma is to

incur no new karma. Then you must face the karma that is

coming to fruition in this lifetime with equinimity and serenity.

And finally you must face the accumulated karma that is due to

come to fruition in the future also with equinimity and serenity.

 

When all karma has been exhausted you are free to assume

your true identity as Parabrahman.

 

Omprem

 

 

 

 

, Lili Masamura

<sephirah5> wrote:

> > kalipadma@j... 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."

> $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

>

> 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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