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A verse I learnt recently and like much by Paramahansa Yogananda is

below:

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O God beautiful! O God beautiful!

In the forest Thy are green

In the mountain Thy are high

In the river Thy are restless

In the ocean Thy are grave

To the serviceful Thy are service

To the lover Thy are love

To the sorrowful Thy are sympathy

To the Yogi Thy are bliss!

O God beautiful! O God beautiful

To thy feet O do I bow!

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Regards

-Srinivas

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Semi OT: I've heard some bhajans at Yogananda-SRF meetings, and found

them to have exquisite, hauntingly beautiful melodies. Different from

most bhajan melodies I've heard elsewhere.

 

--Greg

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> [advaitin] On Behalf Of Srinivas Nagulapalli

> Thursday, December 08, 2005 12:25 PM

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> O God Beautiful !

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> A verse I learnt recently and like much by Paramahansa Yogananda is

> below:

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> O God beautiful! O God beautiful!

> In the forest Thy are green

> In the mountain Thy are high

> In the river Thy are restless

> In the ocean Thy are grave

> To the serviceful Thy are service

> To the lover Thy are love

> To the sorrowful Thy are sympathy

> To the Yogi Thy are bliss!

> O God beautiful! O God beautiful

> To thy feet O do I bow!

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

> Regards

> -Srinivas

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Namaste all.

 

Srinivas-ji's beautiful post resounds with a growing feeling that has

been installed in me for a month or so. I now am able to translate more

precisely what i feel, about the ongoing discussion, on merging the paths of

bhakti and jnana.

To begin with, i have sensed within my own posts, and possibly other

members do too with theirs, that we express much more easily and naturally

our points of view thru knowledge and logic, that's why in recent times

people in this list have (mis)regarded other members' posts as being a bit

harsh, giving birth to even harsher discussions (even though Ganesan-ji

sounded cranky sometimes :-)). All in all, it seems much easier to convey

ideas through words than it is to convey feelings - this is why i feel AdiMa

demises herself by regarding herself as a mere "cheerleader", she is one who

easily puts out feelings through words.

At this point, i would like to thank you, Hersh-ji for your reply to my

last post, i agreed with mostly everything you said, i am not as cold as it

may seem, even though it has become ever clearer to me through my studies

and dialogues in this list (specially regarding Chittaranjan-ji) that my

path is that of jnana-marga. I am sincerely grateful to all members of this

list, who in every reply or post contribute in giving me a wider

comprehension of our existence. I honestly already regard some special

members of this list as friends, for their aid in clarifying particular

doubts i may have had in the past (true spiritual progress is a field where

only real friends play). Even to those who replyed to disagree completely

with anything i may have posted (which i don't think happened yet) are to be

regarded as friends, for through their differences it becomes possible to

either broaden my own point of view or assertively strengthen it. Be it name

calling or a word of advice, if you direct your attention to someone else

there is a perspective for mutual growth (it only depends on

interpretation).

Finally, taking all this into account, to me bhakti is manifest thru

love and awe to the beauty of creation. And to me jnana represents the

search for the cause of creation, represents the returning home, to feeling

part of all that is created as well, and not the central character. As has

been posted recently, it seems logically correct to me that once the length

of the path is travelled, bhakti is all that is left (still, i cannot affirm

that as of now - it is indeed a long path). The two exist mutually, the

latter as a symtpom and the earlier as a cause. It's the beauty of

multiplicity that lights the spark to ignite the lamp of unity. That's also

why i have been feeling for quite sometime that translating the word "maya"

to "illusion" is rather inappropriate, since the word illusion bears some

negativity within itself. I feel maya to be a veil, that has been placed

over the light to dimm it for those who would be blinded by its sight.

 

My warmest regards...

 

 

 

 

 

 

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