Namdev and Vithoba

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--- suri suryanarayan <suri_suryanarayan

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Om namo Bhagavate sri Ramanaya

 

Dear Vicki,

 

The import of the Namdev story,as I understand:

 

Namdev, a great Bhakta of Vithoba was proud of his

closeness to Him. It made Namdev's surrender

incomplete. Though a great bhakta he surely was,

he was still in dvaita as an ego separate from God.

 

The Gora Kumbhar episode was to make him ready to

realize the Truth by introspection. The pain of

humiliation at the hands of Gora was a divine

tool for the divine purpose. There is no need to

feel sad about it. (Who feels sad?)

 

When Vithoba asked him to go to the temple to seek

his Guru He prepared Namdev for the ultimate

surrender. Namdev met His Guru, surrendered at His

feet became a Sivalinga,that is, he was Illumined.

 

The story of the Sivalinga brings out in a most

profound and symbolic way the Illumination of Namdev

when he becomes one with Siva as his dvaita bhava

(separateness from Self) dissappears by his

surrendering the ego at the feet of his Guru Sri

Visobakesar.

 

It was a popular story with Bhagavan and many

devotees have heard it from His divine lips.

 

Namo Ramana

 

suri

 

 

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vicki,

 

you are very dear. this is a story just for you.

 

love,

~jessica

 

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There was once a young girl who was brought up in a house of prostitution.

This was her destiny, at the time. She couldn't get away from it. But she

used to pray to Ramana Maharshi, "Oh Lord, if I must go this route, be with

me. I'm not praying to change my life, if this is my destiny. But I'm

praying that your strength and your love will always be with me."

 

Now across the street, there was a so called Jnani, and he used to stand in

front of the market place, telling everybody they're consciousness and

absolute reality, preaching and screaming. This went on for years.

 

Finally the time came when they both died and they went before God. And God

told the girl, "You have to go back to the earth, and you have to be a

Jnani." And he told the so called aspiring Jnani," You have to go back to

the earth as a snake." And the man said, "How come Lord? I extolled your

virtues to everyone. I told all the people they were consciousness and they

were absolute reality, and you send me back as a snake. What did I do?" And

God said, "You have no heart. You come from the talking school. All you did

with your life was to talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. But this girl gave me

her heart. She surrendered to me. She didn't bemoan her fate. She just

wanted me to be with her during her trials and tribulations. And I gave her

the strength to carry on, so now she is free. But you still have a lot to

learn. So you have to go back as a snake."

 

This makes us think. What are we really doing with our lives? We read lots

of books, see lots of teachers, have a lot of head knowledge, but how many

of us have given out hearts to God? And God is not far away. God is really

the self. But in order to contact that self you have to have a lot of

humility. To feel God's grace means you have to surrender completely, have a

lot of humility. You have to have the attitude, "I know nothing, you are

everything". This kind of an attitude will set you free.

 

(from a transcript ~ satsang with Robert Adams)

 

-

"vicki"

 

snip>

 

> Speaking about being sad -

> actually , that was a victory .

> A victory over an old complex - incapacity & shame to acknowledge

> publicly that there is something that I do not understand.

>

> I am glad I've overcome that.

>

> Who is glad & sad in the same time ?!

> well , this is a question ...

>

> vicki