Frustrated Desires

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Dear Ravi

It is true and a very fact that God has created everything for us and provide

food,water is the very real experience of all of us in realizing the mother's

love for us.

Baghwan Ramakrishna Says"Amma will take care of you and catch her like how a

baby monkey will catch hold of its mother."

So if we can have that faith " Srimatha" will give all what is needed for them

Pranams

Ramanan

 

 

 

 

 

Ravi <miinalochanii wrote:Sometimes small children want to play with

everything. For instance,

when a small child wants to play with a microwave oven or something

more dangerous like a cooking range, its mother will refuse its request

and even punish the child. The natural reaction of the child is to cry

and scream at its parent, whom the child sees as someone who restricts

its freedom and frustrates its desires. But in reality, its mother is

protecting the child from something bad and taking care of it. All the

actions of the mother, spring only out true love for her child and its

welfare.

 

When I read the line, rushhTaatu kaamaan sakalaan abhiishhTaan, it

struck me that ambaa, does not frustrate HER children's desires out of

anger. Rather that anger is feigned, and the true reason is love and

welfare

 

It is immaterial to HER whether we worship HER or not. As a mother HER

goal is to take care of us. Yet, sometimes we want things which we

should not have. We go after desires which may destroy us. When SHE

denies those, we think SHE is frustrating us and not helping us.

I think it is possible to read that line in a different way instead of

"SHE destroys one's desires and welfare, when angered". It is more in

the line of, "SHE feigns anger to destroy those wrong desires, for

providing welfare and all good things" in the long run.

 

Hence, when some our dream and desires are thwarted to dust, and we are

left frustrated. The correct attitude or thought is, SHE is guiding me

according to my prArabhda karma, and doing all that is necessary to

ensure my welfare in the long run. I should surrender myself completely

to HER and learn to abide according to HER will.

 

This is nicely summarized by jnAna mAta's words -- "Change no

circumstance in my life, change me" -- so that I will not fret and

complain about how things happen and instead understand why it is so.

Then as Vijaya Ganapathy recently pointed out, we will learn to accept

everything as a HER prasaada, not just the apparently good things.

 

 

Ravi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ravi

 

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