My introduction

[Guest guest]

Respected members,

 

I thought I had posted my introduction already and only now

realized that it did not get through, since it was missing from

the website Shri. Madhava-ji had posted. Please accept my

apologies.

 

I am 26-yr old engineer living in the California Bay area and

am an eager student of Advaita Vedanta. As far as spiritual

progress is concerned, I am but an infant trying to take the

first tentative steps.

 

I come from a very orthodox family where I was made to learn to

recite the Vishnu Sahasranamam, Lalitha Sahasranamam, the

Pancha Sookthams, Rudram and Chamakam at the same age I was

learning my multiplication tables. It was done under duress

then ofcourse, but is something for which I am deeply grateful

today. Circumstances changed and I moved away from bhakti and

orthodoxy as fast as my rebellious nature would take me. That

was my loss.

 

However, since then, I've been tremendously blessed when life's

challenges made me examine exactly what it was I was seeking,

and why I was trapped in this seemingly unending cycle of

happiness and sorrow. One thing was clear at that point even

with that state of mind - I was tired of facing the tumults

because they never seemed to end and I desperately wanted to

find permanent peace and mental equanimity. Further thought

convinced me that the peace I sought could not be found outside

of me and speaking of which, who was "me" anyway besides the

name with which everybody addresses my physical form??

 

As Shri. Sadananda-ji had mentioned in one of his posts,

everytime I've ever been confused and sought direction from the

bottom of my heart, a guru has always somehow appeared to

direct me to the right path - no matter where in the world I've

been. And each of these guru's have pointed me to different

facets of advaita vedanta to answer my different queries. It

has been an incredible experience and I can only nod my head in

complete wonder at how everything is falling into place

perfectly. I feel blessed to have the background that I do

because as others on the list have pointed out, its like I have

a box containing the treasure - I merely need to find the keys

to open it, to enjoy it.

 

And it was when I was fumbling for the keys, I found this list.

I am listening and learning from your scholarly posts. For this

opportunity, I am deeply grateful and you are all my guru's in

that sense.

 

Please accept a student's humble pranams.

 

-Shuba

 

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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off

every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

- Alan Alda, actor and director (1936-)

 

 

 

 

 

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