Karma -dasa

[Guest guest]

Dear all!<br><br>>>First to clear-up a

definition: dasa means a servant.<br>It used to be [still is]

a caste in the Indian society whose members used to

serve the others.<br>You can be a 'dasa' only of the

community, or your country-if you are patriotic. But never

of a person.<br>So you should never ever address

yourself as a dasa of anybody-so please don't use it as

your message signature.>><br><br>The word

“servant” appears bothersome to some. As I see it, every

single being in our universe is a servant. A servant of

“God”. And as Tat twam asi, all are “servants” or

“dasas” of all. The day we are able to see and understand

that, our sadhna is in full swing. When our ego cup can

be emptied a bit, the Truth can flow in. <br><br>Our

egos give us a hard time in accepting that role.

However the word doesn’t imply anything demeaning, though

in our ego-centered world of ‘my’ ‘me’ and ‘i’, it

may appear so. Perhaps it’s due to our association of

the treatment given to servants in many places or the

place they hold in society in general. We tend to give

meaning to words according to our experiences and react

accordingly. <br><br>However it simply is a means to help

express one’s humility, a sense of surrender, a means to

dissolve the harmful effects of one’s ego that veils -the

veil of maya, the layer of dust, the encrusted dirt-

from our True Selves. As long as we speak and act

from, a sense of "“i” am all", the Truth lying beneath

cannot surface. All cleansing of this encrusted layers

of ignorance has to start with a surrender of this

“i”, with a sense of “I am nothing”! All actions are

then to serve “God” or Truth. Only through that

experience, can we can truly express our fullest potential as

an individual. An instrument in an orchestra has to

defer to the whole, to be able to express itself fully

as an individual. My guruji says, “Tat twam asi is

there if you can park the mind in the TRUST Shed”.

<br><br>Words in our langauge can have several meanings.

perhaps making it hard for those who haven't grown up

within the culture. <br><br>Humilty in sadhana is a

topic we have touched upon in our club. Perhaps it can

be explored more. <br><br>_/\_ Tat twam

asi<br><br>Uma

[Guest guest]

Dear tatwamasi,<br><br>Who is your Gurudev. I have heard this "Park your Mind in

the Trust Shed" from a great Yogi in Kumbho. Are you also a real

yogi?<br><br>Pronam<br><br>debsharma

[Guest guest]

Dear Debsharma<br><br>My guruji is also a great

yogi. Quite possible you met him in Kumbh mela. But I

didn't quite understand your question about my being a

yogi.. Is it possible to be an unreal yogi?

<br><br>Just curious!<br><br>_/\_ Tat twam asi<br><br>Uma