Guest guest Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 A verse I learnt recently and like much by Paramahansa Yogananda is below: -------------------------------- 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 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 > > advaitin > [advaitin] On Behalf Of Srinivas Nagulapalli > Thursday, December 08, 2005 12:25 PM > advaitin > O God Beautiful ! > > A verse I learnt recently and like much by Paramahansa Yogananda is > below: > -------------------------------- > 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 > > ------------------------ Sponsor > --------------------~--> > Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with > hope and healing > http://us.click./lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/XUWolB/TM > ----------------------------- > ------~-> > > Discussion of Shankara's Advaita Vedanta Philosophy of > nonseparablity of Atman and Brahman. > Advaitin List Archives available at: > http://www.eScribe.com/culture/advaitin/ > To Post a message send an email to : advaitin > Messages Archived at: advaitin/messages > > > Links > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 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... _____ doce lar. Faça do sua homepage. http://br./homepageset.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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