RE: spirituality

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Paul here, replying to a comment we received regarding the list, but which

wasn't posted. Copy is attached, anonymous to preserve some etiquite.

 

Thank you for sharing your opinion. I am very happy with my spiritual

path, and confident to share my experience and knowledge with others. While

I am far from perfect, I am only repeating what I have heard from

authorities, and have confirmed through my own experience. I expected that

not everyone would be pleased to hear what I had to say, but some will

benefit. No one has been harmed. Srila Prabhupada has said regarding so

many different types of spiritual paths that there are many medicines, but

for the spiritual illness that we live with in kali yuga (current age, began

when Krishna left the planet), there is only one effective medicine. That

is the hearing and chanting of "hare krishna hare krishna krishna krishna

hare hare/ hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare." Krishna personally

instructed me to always chant His names. It is no matter that one may be

fallen and unqualified, if one hears truth and repeats that, without adding

or subtracting anything, then one has done service. Srila Prabhupada often

would tell Ph.D.'s and the like that they were fools, and very often the

persons would agree, because Prabhupada was so pure that he could say such

things. I am not that pure, but I'm just repeating, not like a parrot, but

what I have confirmed by my experience.

You see, I used to practice hatha, raja, jnana, karma, and then learned and

taught kundalini yoga. When my practice reached a plateau, I thought it was

time to renounce. Shortly after I felt death approaching rapidly, and I

prayed to Krishna that if He is real, I need to see him. Three days later,

He came into my bedroom during the brahma-muhurta (period before sunrise) as

I had been studying Bhagavad-gita all night. A vivid memory of that night

was when He said, "You think you're a yogi? You want samadhi? Here's

samadhi." He plunged me into an ocean of undifferientated consciousness. I

had one prayer, that He not let go. He brought me back, and showed me

prema, love of Godhead. I felt stretched as a wire, but with unlimited

divine love passing through me. Samadhi was hell compared to prema. A

second prayer arose, that He take me to prema slowly but surely in this

lifetime. He promised that He would return when it would really come time

to depart this world. So what can I do, but glorify Him?

 

I'm not sure where this "what you see in others you have in yourself" gets

us. You accused me of having a "very negative attitude," which would seem

to indicate that it is you who have the negative attitude. Maybe the whole

universe is just full of negativity. Of course, I doubt it, but I actually

wasn't seeing negativity, so I don't think I was projecting it on others.

Some negativity did surface, obviously, but that doesn't necessarily have to

be negative. I hope and expect that your finding my posts to be useless

does not imply that everyone agrees with that assessment. I did expect

opposition, though, and am not particularly bothered by it. The cream

gradually rises. I will continue to chant the Lord's names, per His

instruction. Anyone who may be more wise than me are welcome to comment.

 

hari bol,

Paul

 

 

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> I am praying for you so you do not find it necessary to make snide

> remarks to others on the path. Any good you might have to contribute

> is blocked to others by this very negative attitute. I am sure you

> are not aware that those qualities you are projecting on others in

> this group are to to found within yourself, and are glaringly

> apparent to all but yourself. I do not find your comments to the

> kundalini group helpful and find myself deleting your emails without

> reading them. Please read this with the same spirit of lovingkindness

> in which it was sent. Love, Peace, Blessings. Sat Nam.

>