A place to remember

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>[DGW] A place to remember

>Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:10:47 -0700

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>People have all different motivations, coming from their feelings about

>what is right and wrong, their perceptions of what is true and false.

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>I got into astrology. I quickly saw full determinism. Already having

>basically memorized the Gita, read the Mahabharat four times, read the

>Bhagavatam once over, and some parts many times...I knew that full

>destiny understanding did not hamper the understanding that all perceive

>free will.

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>All have maya, illusion. That is basic. Free will is part of this

>illusion. That I am free.

>

>Early in my dealings with Jyotish, I predict the divorce of a friend way

>in advance, and so it happens, and that his wife would become certain

>way, and so it happened.

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>One friend, making so much money each month, living like a king, way in

>advance I warn him of times coming when it would be not so, and now it

>is not so.

>

>I saw the yoga that burned my daughter before knowing Jyotish, and using

>simple dashas, saw it again coming into play. I waited, and told nobody.

>Then the call came, the car crash had happened, and the child with the

>yoga for damage to the head, so clear in his chart, lay at the hospital

>with smashed head. His transits, my yoga, all operating as they should.

>

>As I drove to see my near dead son, I am praising Krishna in my heart

>and mind, and part of me, is not sad at all, nor afraid, nor surprised,

>but rather in wonder, at the perfect hands that cradle us all, bringing

>us slowly towards Himself.

>

>Those who I know with Saturn in the midheaven, the careers build slow.

>Those with strong well placed Venus enjoy the good life. Those with

>Mercury in Aries show quick wit, and so on it goes. Everyone, all that I

>know and see, act exactly like their charts speak to me.

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>But they, the souls, resistant to God, ignore the truth, that they are

>in God, that God is in control, that all is good, that we are being raised.

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>Millions of years ago, we were dinosaurs, large bodies, small brains.

>Now we have large brains and small bodies, and we span the globe in

>complex communications like this one. Now we become aware of each others

>faiths, and secrets locked from us for thousands of years are now sold

>in Borders bookstore. Secret parts of the Himalayas, the subject of only

>lore a meer 50 years ago, are now routine stops on tourist routes, you

>can go there and return to any part of the world, safely, comfortably

>(almost) in less than a week's trip, returning with pictures, and books

>explaining everything to you in your native tongue.

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>I see the souls getting raised, becoming aware, surrendering to the

>truth, slowly, but surely.

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>Jyotish, a special gift of knowledge, shows us indeed, we are in God,

>parts of God, parts of the whole, a plan in place, only surrender is

>required, letting go to God's flow.

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>My son, the winner of many awards for sportsmanship in many categories,

>who has to race bicycles with the next age group up to be challenged at

>all, the one with the perfect body, the weight lifter, the most handsome

>one, the darling of the girls at his school, the straight A student, the

>one that rebounded from massive head damage in way too short of a time,

>who went right back to snowboarding, wrestling, and bike racing, that

>one, has never fished, never hunted, never eaten an egg, nor a fish, nor

>any meat whatsoever, conceived by two young members of a "cult", in

>poverty, but in faith, strong faith.

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>I see my parents, and all my relatives, and my friends relatives, and

>our past presidents, all suffering from senility, dementia, in old age.

>I also suffered mental trouble already, and know therefore, it was based

>on attachment and fear. I know too that hard core rememberence of

>spiritual truth is what is saving me.

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>I remember 3 old Gurus I've known in India- Prabhupada, Sridhar Maharaj,

>and BP Puri Maharaj, all of whom were mentally crisp to the last breath

>as much as they ever were, never showing any signs at all of being

>senile, fearful, or dementia. What am I to think?

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>I know that if you live your life in knowledge Divine, then you don't

>have fears, because the greatest fears, you've already faced, and lived

>according to the solution throughout your life. Know God in prosperity,

>and he'll know you in adversity. Invite Saturn into your life, and he

>won't need to force himself.

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>Knowing all these things, and more, so many things, heaps and piles, all

>proving to me the same thing over and over, that God consciousness is

>good, that it is real, that it is needed, and knowing first hand that

>the fine old fashioned Vedic approach, works so very well, but knowing

>that few got to see it as I did, few get to taste it and be taught it as

>I have, then what am I to think but, "let me try to share it".

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>So I give my life to that, and I try, ever so hard, on and on. As I get

>older, the feeling of wanting to share it intensifies, as I feel, I have

>hardly begun at all. So this is the real reason to sharpen the tools,

>oil the gears, rev up the engine, of the worship, rememberance,

>practice, and dissemination mechanisms inside myself. Sri Caitanya said:

>By my order, become Guru, and deliver the land. Whomsoever you meet,

>tell them about Krishna. And always remember you are a servant of the

>servant of God.

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>Many write to me, and have various motivations, to do it this way or

>that. But I can see who is a bit desperate to know and taste devotion to

>God now, and who is still seeing in ways of this world, through relative

>eyes related to this bodily illusion. As a steward or guide, one who

>knows something, one having tasted and thus knowing the thing directly,

>I have to stay on track, to try to make it spread, that more pure thing,

>that thing that will give them that rare gift of Divine Love and

>Service, Surrender to God, the sweetest thing of all.

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>Many play with Jyotish, and some see it as a map that can be changed,

>others see it as possibilities, and others think it has no connection to

>God. There are so many ways to see anything and everything. But I know,

>that the family who held it and gave it to us, that they were close to

>Krishna, and Krishna is real, and this life is temporary. That which we

>see shall vanish, so we believe in that which we cannot see. They taught

>that. The reasons to believe in Krishna and call out to Him, are much

>stronger than our attachments and illusions based in shifting sands here

>in this plane, wherefrom our friends dissapear, so we hear, in phone

>calls we loathe, and hope in veign to never receive.

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>Remember, remember, that you are a soul. So many things try to convince

>us otherwise, distract us into taking this life more seriously than our

>souls. So rare it is to find a place, an abode, where the truth alone is

>spoken.

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>GJLIST was started by a weak hand, a shaky one, certain unto himself, as

>to what is true, but knowing that there are few to none to stand by and

>say, yes, go on, do it that way, stand firm with that flag, and if you

>fall, we shall hold it, and it will never go down. Few have committed

>their lives to defending God consciousness as their all in all without

>wavering. But there are some, and many wish to be, many think, yes, soon

>I shall be, I am considering it, therefore soon I shall be strong, soon,

>soon.

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>Going backwards, into desire, I know there awaits me nothing but

>anxiety, fear, hopelessness. I cannot fool myself longer. Forward, there

>is also a different type of fear. When we stand in THAT doorway, we look

>back and feel regret as to what we are leaving. We look forward and

>aren't sure, what we shall be receiving. But when we step forward into

>that unsurity, but with faith as our guide, and knowledge too, though

>not empirical, inferable, so onward we step, and when we do, at each

>step, we realize, I left nothing, and am gaining everything. The doubts

>exist in the doorway, in the unsurity, of not taking the "leap of

>faith". That is where doubt lives, in the heart of the one who can no

>longer go back, but is not yet practiced in going forward.

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>Sri Caitanya leaped forward, and spread that to a few, who showed it to

>a few, who showed it to a few, and it never died, and it reached me. I

>have lived with big-steppers, leapers of faith, who still carried that

>feeling, that came down from that one who was the embodiment of that

>leap, who was that leap, personified. This is sampradaya. It is knowing

>a taster, it is having them shake you, look you in your eyes, and thus

>initiate you, in that leaping, and you're changed forever.

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>Sampradaya means disciplic succession. Knowledge is one thing, but

>spiritual courage another, and there, there is no substitute. One may

>learn from books, but never from books will you feel what it feels like,

>to talk to one, who has leaped and lived, and who laughs harder than

>you, is stronger than you, happier than you, with less than you, who is

>the same all the time, strong and able, never sad, never fearful, always

>cheerful, even with nothing. Then you know, from their association, what

>real spiritual life is. That is Guru. That is Sampradaya. That is

>initiation- it's those few moments, when you realize, Oh my God, this

>Person is Really Spiritual, no fake, no gimics, only realized soul, the

>real thing.

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>Krishna says: "Just try to approach a real Guru, who can teach you the

>truth, from having seen it themselves". The word he uses is "Tattva

>Darshini", or one who has seen the truth. There is no faking it, though

>some do, and they have followers, for some time anyway, before both

>sides of the false transaction retire to more real realities. But that

>doesn't happen with the real, rather, they are solid til death, with no

>fear, for they prepared lifelong.

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>Knowing all this, how can I care for lesser considerations? It may not

>be easy, the first splash of an unfamiliar cold shower, but after some

>time, you are swimming with the adjusted, one of them, and knowing that

>you will be, they push you in, knowing you will survive and prosper.

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>Those who can hear it, hear it, those who cannot, well they have their

>ways of adjusting and going on. For all of us are parts of God,

>learning, growing, and all is perfect, for there is only God, and His

>guiding hands, are all that is.

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>Hari Om, Hare Krishna,

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>Raghunandan das

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