Introduction

[Guest guest]

<<Ramakrishna is my hero, knowing the universal truths of all

religions and teaching that is what i want to do>>

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could not agree more.....Namaste and Hotep...Tanja

 

Ramakrishna

 

Indian mystic. Born into a poor Brahman family, he worked as a priest

in a temple of Kali in Calcutta, where he had a vision and commenced

spiritual practices in a number of different religious traditions. He

rejected the caste system, and held that all religions are in essence

the same and that all are true.

Some Hindu's regard Ramakrishna as a self-realized saint, while

others regard him as one of God's incarnation.

According to Mahatma Gandhi, "The story of Ramakrishna life is a

story of religion in practice.

 

'Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are

not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are

not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who,

after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise

that they know nothing.'

 

'Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find

nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here

(i.e., in one's own heart).'

[Guest guest]

Namaste,

 

I am Gadadhar and am new to the list. I am a Shakta and am devoted to

the Mother. I have to agree with the moderators about the photo. I

remember first being exposed to Kali and feeling very uncomfortable

about her images. It was I who needed to change not the image.

 

Just my thoughts,

Gadadhar

[Guest guest]

, "Mathavasi Swami Gadadhar

Das"

<westernhindu> wrote:

>

> Namaste,

>

> I am Gadadhar and am new to the list. I am a Shakta and am

devoted

to

> the Mother. I have to agree with the moderators about the photo.

I

> remember first being exposed to Kali and feeling very

uncomfortable

> about her images. It was I who needed to change not the image.

>

> Just my thoughts,

> Gadadhar

>

 

Sorry, I couldn't respond to you earlier. I'm back homebased

visiting my father. Seems none of the moderators welcome you, I

think they are all occupied with their non-web obligation. SO let me

have the honour of being the first to do so. Welcome to you and to

all New to Shakti Sadhana.

 

Whenever I feel uncomfortable about anything or any situation I've

being put through, I explore that feelings. I like to image this

uncomfortable feelings and make it concrete. Give life to it and

talk to it. Its interesting how sometimes what it gives you back in

return. Like my guru says, Let the mind travels and take its own

course. You will be amazing where it leads you to.

 

That uncomfortable feeling is an honest feeling. Its good to admit

it. I think that is what being reflective is all about. I remember

seeing an image of Lalitha Devi holding a mirror and looking at

herself in the mirror. Is she admiring her beauty or its much more

that. Our life or our sadhana is all about ungoing change. We change

all the time. Change until we reach to a certain point that there is

no need for change. We are the change.

 

Felicia mention earlier "death" is change. Is this death as we

understand it a temporary change or its permanent. Physical death is

permanent change. YOu cannot come back in the same form. You may get

reborn in another physical body, but it a change. Spiritual death

should it be permanent or transitional in nature? What do we

understand by spiritual death. This is my quest. The question ive

been asking myself a lot of time. Does spiritual death means the

absence of the senses. The detechment of our self to this physical

being. We have a lot of needs eh!. This need to be praise. This need

to feel that we are important. This need that we are alive. etc.

What happen if we remove all this need. Are we dead or alive?