Beginning the new year..

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There have been several wonderful messages in our satsangh lately.

 

jigyasa02, "letter from God"- post 4633, is a reminder of the traps

that face all sadhaks, when we get carried away in our frenzy and

supposed loyalty to one's own path and lose track of the message

itself. I have received that message before from many other sources;

thank you for posting it in our club. Thank you too, for the

enlightening stories you have been posting lately. Please keep

sharing the information and knowledge that touches you in your

sadhna.

 

Welcome Mark613 and thank you for your Post 4637 presenting your

experiences. Our club is designed to share experiential knowledge

aside from what we learn from our great Gurus, for it is knowledge

gained from experience that helps remove our daily obstacles. We

know the Bhagawad Gita continues to be a source of solace and

enlightenment for millions everyday. Would you believe it has been

used successfuly by a Counselor in an adolescent prison too? Do

continue to share and participate and help make our satsangh another

point of light that joins the millions others that shine everyday.

 

 

My continued thanks to pyari for consistently supplying us with the

nectar of all knowledge. Safar, erica, dhyana, (good to hear from

you! ) yogivishwa, radhakutirji, chamundakijai, krsnajoe and all

members, silent and active, thank you for your presence and may you

all be blessed. Thank you dear svcs for your consistent

participation, moderation, direction and showering us with the jewels

of Bhagwan Ramanna Maharshi. I miss our original founder silentsoul,

and send our best wishes to him and his family.

 

A few days ago, a member and I were recounting our last year, and we

spoke about what a tough year it has been for so many people. We

spoke about the negativity and how easily it bands together, across

all geographical divisions. I asked -

 

1. What is it that stops "positive" energy to come together in a

similar fashion? If one does manage to come together, it seems to

stop at the man-made boundaries of path and methodology? Shouldn't

truth cross any such boundaries?

 

2. What stops sincere sadhaks from joining forces with the same

intensity to create a force of change? As in any individual creation,

any collective creativity also needs clarity of thought, intention of

creation, and united enforcement of energies. This works from small

endeavors like our little satsangh which then joins with the larger

endeavors in the world.

 

3. Does the belief in karma make people complacent about our personal

roles in the upliftment of the world in general? Or is it simply

people being selfish and self contained with pursuance of their own

ego-needs/lives.

 

To start off the new year, I offer these questions to our members for

sincere thought, discussion and debate.

 

I hope this year we have many, many members enthusiastically join us

in our effort to learn, grow, and build a small community that is a

microcosm of the world we would all like to see our world be.

 

_/\_ Tat twam asi

 

Uma