Srimad BhagWat Gita !

[Guest guest]

Dear Yadu-ji!

 

These are beautiful words right after my heart ! Such words

are 'music' to the ears and feast for the eyes !

 

SRI RAMAKRISHNA SAID THIS OF SRIMAD BHAGVATAM

 

"It is fried in the Ghee of knowledge and steeped in the honey of

Love."

 

This is also true of Srimad Bhagwat GITA !

 

so, yaduji- i need youer help in 'ehancing' my simplistic posts -

this is your hour to 'shine' because you have so much to share !

Please join me in exploring the path of 'bhakti and jnana'

 

what more can this 'abala' ask !

 

thank you !

 

love and regards

[Guest guest]

Hari Om.

 

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advaitin, "adi_shakthi16"

<adi_shakthi16> wrote:

> what more can this 'abala' ask !

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Dear AdiMa ji,

Namaskar.

 

I have something that I want to share with you in this regard.

Something that I learnt (still working at it actually..)from my

experience.

 

I realised that my identification as a 'woman' gets fattened by

repeated brooding on the thought that 'I am a woman'. This brooding

happens by reacting to anything as a 'woman'. The moment somebody

says something about 'woman' I identify and react. Any chance I get

I remind myself of my 'womanhood' either feel proud about it or feel

sorry for myself. I realised this to be a serious impediment on the

spiritual path where we seek to see 'vision of oneness'. (As a

matter of fact, as I type this I have awareness inside that even

this act of 'reacting to your email' is due to this identification

with 'womanhood'.)Let me tell you that I didn't come to this

realisation by myself. I got some help by God's grace.

 

One day I was attending a lecture from a very well known Swamiji of

Chinmaya Mission. I was sitting in the very first row, right in

front of Swamiji. While explaining something Swamiji suddently

pointed at me and asked me

"Tell me, are you a 'wife' first or a 'woman' first?"

I said "I am a woman first."

He then asked "Are you a 'woman' first or a 'human' first?"

I said "I am a human first."

He then asked "Are you a 'human being' first or a 'living being'

first?"

I said "I am a living being."

Then suddenly he pointed at all the audience and said loudly to

me "SO IS EVERYBODY ELSE HERE !"

 

This statement came like a shock to me. Really everybody is living-

being only and I am also a living-being. One with them. I felt such

oneness and peace at that moment. After this I have awareness of

this problem with me and working at it, so thought I will share it

with you.

 

Adimaji, you are very learned and I am not. So please forgive and

ignore my words if you find them to be immature.

 

Love and Respect,

Padma

[Guest guest]

Hari OM!

 

Dear Padmaji,

 

I agree 100 % with you, as a living being but in vyvahar we cannot do the

same. it will be a chaos, if we follow that, Woman is Woman, Man is Man....

yes for all spiritual purposes living being is ok.

 

Woman is all compassionate, Man is Rational, but there is a Man in Woman's

nature or(Body) also and vice versa, some times there will be woman with big

mustache also,........ all depends on the nature of that living being! But

no one can replace Woman's Motherly love, no one in the world can replace

it, that is patented to Women folks.

 

With Love & OM!

 

Krishna Prasad

 

 

 

 

 

On 12/6/05, pjoshi99 <pjoshi99 wrote:

>

> Hari Om.

>

> Then suddenly he pointed at all the audience and said loudly to

> me "SO IS EVERYBODY ELSE HERE !"

>

> This statement came like a shock to me. Really everybody is living-

> being only and I am also a living-being. One with them. I felt such

> oneness and peace at that moment. After this I have awareness of

> this problem with me and working at it, so thought I will share it

> with you.

>

> Adimaji, you are very learned and I am not. So please forgive and

> ignore my words if you find them to be immature.

>

> Love and Respect,

> Padma

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Krishna Prasad

 

.. Yad yad aacarati sreshtah, tad tad eva itaro janah. As the Gita puts it,

consistency of purpose and a spirit of dedication and, if necessary,

sacrifice, should characterize the new spirit.

We Must - Swami Chinmayanada

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Thank you Padma-ji for sharing this !

 

When i called myself an 'abala' , i was not referring to my

woomanhood ! Bala ofcourse means 'a girl' but abala means one who is

not 'strong'- incidentally, i was not referring to 'sharrira-balam '(

my physical strength) or my mano -balam ( my mental strength) but my

Buddhir-balam (intellectual strength) ... i wanted to involve sri

yadu-ji to share in the discussion on 'bhakti and jnana' - this is

a 'golden' opportunity for Yaduji to remove the golden disc off the

face of 'bhakti and jnana' and share his interpretations of the

upanishads!

 

but you have made some good points ... and i admire your wisdom,

padmaji !

 

Believe me , i am a tough woman - you just don't me! Smile !

 

i like to share this Tantric prayer with you - it has helped to be

strong in the face of all adversities !

 

"Woman is the foundation of the world;

 

The universe is her form.

 

Woman is the foundation of the world;

 

She is the true form of the body.

 

Whatever form she takes,

 

Whether the form of a man or a woman,

 

Is the superior form.

 

In woman is the form of all things,

 

Of all that lives and moves in the world.

 

There is no jewel rarer than a woman,

 

No condition superior to that of a woman.

 

There is not, nor has been, nor will be

 

Any destiny to equal that of a woman.

 

There is no kingdom, no wealth,

 

To be compared with a woman.

 

There is no prayer to equal a woman.

 

There is not, nor has been, nor will be

 

Any yoga to compare with a woman,

 

No mystical formula nor asceticism

 

To match a woman.

 

There are not, nor have been, nor will be

 

Any riches more valuable than woman."

 

My gurudeva used to address me as 'Tantraswarupini' in all his

correspondence to me!

 

love and light

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

advaitin, "pjoshi99" <pjoshi99> wrote:

>

> Hari Om.

>

> -------------------

> advaitin, "adi_shakthi16"

> <adi_shakthi16> wrote:

>

> > what more can this 'abala' ask !

> -------------------

> Dear AdiMa ji,

> Namaskar.

>

> I have something that I want to share with you in this regard.

> Something that I learnt (still working at it actually..)from my

> experience.

>

[Guest guest]

Dear Shri. Krishna Prasad ji

Hari Om. Namaskar.

 

What you say is very true from Vyavahar standpoint. I would have

thought the same. However to my surprise, when I started applying

it, I did not see any chaos. I found out that vyavahar goes on just

fine without our thinking that 'I am this and that'. Because what we

are we are! No thinking is necessary for that. Our thoughts that 'I

am this and that' actually obstruct our natural actions. They stop

us to be a better woman and a better man.

 

I haven't read very many books. I only have my experiment to give in

support of what I say. I am aware that it won't be sufficient. So

only thing I can say is, if you so wish, you may 'Try it out and see

if it works. Otherwise leave it.'

 

I appreciate that you read my mail and responded. I really do not

wish to discuss this matter any further because I am not interested

in proving myself right. What good would that do to me? Probably it

will just add to my ego further and that's no good ! Even for others

reading arguments doesn't help any.

 

Love and Respect

Padma

 

advaitin, Krishna Prasad <rkrishp99@g...>

wrote:

> I agree 100 % with you, as a living being but in vyvahar we cannot

do the

> same. it will be a chaos, if we follow that, Woman is Woman, Man

is Man....

> yes for all spiritual purposes living being is ok.

>

there is a Man in Woman's

> nature or(Body) also and vice versa, some times there will be

woman with big

> mustache also,........ all depends on the nature of that living

being! Butreplace

> it, that is patented to Women folks.

> no one can replace Woman's Motherly love, no one in the world can

>

> With Love & OM!

>

> Krishna Prasad

[Guest guest]

Krishna Prasad <rkrishp99 wrote:

But no one can replace Woman's Motherly love, no one in the world can

replace it, that is patented to Women folks.

How untrue!

 

Love is love. There is no motherly or fatherly. A father has same quality of

love as a mother has. (If you see from Vyavaharik POV, today's Man is more

loving towards his kids than the woman.)

 

Mahabharat, our history, gives us many examples of human nature. I would like

to mention two of them with our context of so called "Motherly Love"

 

Kunti - a great woman - but also a great failure of motherhood!

Dronacharya - a father whose love towards Ashwatthama, made him fight against

Drupad and that in-turn caused his death.

 

So love is not proprietary of any group. Anyone can experience pure love. So

what Tai (Padmaja-ji) said was right. We first are Living being - even from

Vyavaharik POV.

 

Madhav

 

 

 

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