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Jaya Guru Datta,

 

I am very happy to have joined the group of devotees

of Swamiji. Welcome me with Swamiji's beautiful

experiences and encounters with Him.

 

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anu

 

 

 

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Jai Guru Datta Everyone,

 

I have been thinking about our beloved Sadguru a lot these past few days,

and how he works in our lives. For many years, Sri Swamiji has been asking

me to complete a certain project....while I've made progress on that

project, I have yet to complete it. Along the way, I had many other

questions and things I wanted to learn and think about before accepting what

my sadguru wanted for me....I realized the other day, as Sri Swamiji's

project still stares me in the face, and I know that I must honor his will

for me, that he had lovingly answered all of my questions....for each

concern, he had brought someone into my life who could help me answer my

questions and learn more....as I thought about it, I also realized that each

of the teachers he had brought me had a dual nature...many very good

spiritual things to teach, and on other levels corrupted in many ways. ...it

was an important lesson, and a reminder that we live in a world of duality

and that we should use our powers of discernment and take only that which

leads us to inner truth...As I thought about this, another line of thinking

began in my head...One of the wonderful things about now living in New

Jersey is that I am surrounded by loving Datta devotees and their

children...it is a real joy to watch them raise their little ones with

Swamiji as an important part of their lives...Last week, I had the wonderful

opportunity to talk with one of the devotee's son about Sri Swamiji and the

mysteries of God....he is a really bright little ten year old, and has a

mind that is already asking important questions..I told him he was very

lucky that Sri Swamiji was already in his life...He told me that Sri Swamiji

had told him the same thing...that he was very lucky that Swamiji had come

to him at such a young age...A few days later I was to go to my women's

spirituality group..the theme of our meeting was childhood...we were to

bring something....a picture, story, whatever, that we wanted to share about

spirituality in our childhood....for the life of me, I couldn't think about

what I was going to say....I always have lots of stories, and for once I was

stumped....I thought and thought and thought and couldn't come up with one

thing I wanted to share with the group. In the meantime, I got sick and

decided not to go...and I figured maybe I wasn't supposed to go anyway, and

that was why I couldn't think of anything...Needless to say, my mind

wandered back to my earlier conversation about having Swamiji in your life

as a child...hmmm....I didn't meet Sri Swamiji until I was 35, but I wished

that he had been with me when I was a child.. and that I had a story to tell

about my childhood that included Sri Swamiji. The next day I was dusting my

bookshelf. One of the daughter's of the devotee's here is a freshman in high

school. She recently had a reading assignment that she had asked me to help

her with. Much to my delight, she actually had read a couple of the books I

had recommended for her schoolwork and we had the opportunity to talk about

them...which I really enjoyed. As I was dusting I remembered a book that I

thought she might enjoy that had been like the bible to me when I was her

age in high school ---T.H.White's Once and Future King....one of the things

that I most loved about it was all of the stories of how the wizard Merlin

came to young King Arthur as a child and taught him about life through the

animals in the forest....I reread and reread that book as a young teen, and

even though Merlin gets imprisioned because of his desire in the end, I

wished that I had a Merlin in my life.....hmmm...I wondered, was that Sri

Swamiji teaching me in my youth? Wow! I really began to wonder if he had

been with me then....Yesterday I went to an Anagha vratam at one of the

devotee's homes. Another devotee was there reading a book aloud to her

little girl. I sidled up and sat next to them because she was reading one of

my favorite stories...The Wizard of Oz! I was happily listening to the

story, like a little girl again (and looking at the pictures) when it dawned

on me that one year of childhood hadn't passed that I hadn't faithfully

watched Judy Garland in the Wizard of Oz....it was my favorite movie....I

always wanted to be Dorothy....off to find the great OZ.....Oh Boy! Was that

Sri Swamji in my childhood again preparing me to meet him? I wondered....as

I listened and thought, I was once again struck by the same lesson I had

been thinking about a few days earlier....once Dorothy reaches Oz she finds

out that there really isn't any great wizard, just a man behind the curtain

making lots of noise, but he is a real guru, because he teaches her and tin

man, and the lion and the scarecrow that they need to look within...what

they see outside is only maya....bells and whistles and lots of noise...the

truth is inside them, not in the wizard's palace.....Wow! So now I finally

have a story to tell about spirituality and my childhood and Swamiji, but my

women's group has already met, and we have a new theme for next month, so I

decided to share my little story with my Datta Family....

 

Much love to you all, Jai Guru Datta,

 

Daria