Guest guest Posted June 2, 2006 Report Share Posted June 2, 2006 ===============================================================Swamiji asks "Ganga has been charged with the responsibility to cleanse the world from selfishness. When Ganga complained that She would become polluted from cleansing the world, Brahma proclaimed that the sadhus will perform sadhana in order to clean Her. What actions can we take to help clean Ganga?" ===============================================================Why would Ganga be polluted if she takes away our selfishness.. I understand it as follows, when through sadhana of our ancestors, wisdom decided to awaken in us. But if she had awakened without restraint we would probably cease to exist, but if she was tempered by understanding of a Master who can translate Her according to the times, then we have a chance - the Master is denoted by Shiva breaking Her fall. But Ganga or 'the energy which awakens intelligence in us' still has a problem, the problem is the moment we awaken to our inherent intelligence we become more selfish rather than less, we are filled with dreams of grandeur, as this wisdom is nothing but our awkening to our infinite potential and till this potential is completely understood we are dangerous and Ganga was afraid of this. But she was given a boon which would solve this problem - the boon being that Masters with Complete Understanding will bathe in Her thereby making our understanding complete and Ganga pure again, that is when we awken to ourselves, Men of Wisdom will seek us and direct us towards the complete understanding of our potential and we become 'Ganga'. What actions can we take to make Ganga clean - just try to understand ourselves and more we do more clean She becomes, and we can hasten the process by letting our incomplete understanding wash the feet of the Masters, so that we can come away with better understanding and little more closer to completely understanding Ganga. On the first take Ganga concern might look little selfish, but if we look deeper it was Her compassion that made Her get the boon, so that if we awaken through Her, She has made sure that there will be someone there to carry us all the way.. It was through hard work of our ancestors Ganga flows in us, but it was Ganga compassion that made sure that the beings she liberated would be there to help the the rest of us - Oh! thats our Mother! Jai Sri Ramakrishna! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 2, 2006 Report Share Posted June 2, 2006 I really like this answer.... - n_mallan Friday, June 02, 2006 12:29 AM [www.ShreeMaa.org] Re: Swamiji asks a question to the group - GANGA ===============================================================Swamiji asks "Ganga has been charged with the responsibility to cleanse the world from selfishness. When Ganga complained that She would become polluted from cleansing the world, Brahma proclaimed that the sadhus will perform sadhana in order to clean Her. What actions can we take to help clean Ganga?" ===============================================================Why would Ganga be polluted if she takes away our selfishness.. I understand it as follows, when through sadhana of our ancestors, wisdom decided to awaken in us. But if she had awakened without restraint we would probably cease to exist, but if she was tempered by understanding of a Master who can translate Her according to the times, then we have a chance - the Master is denoted by Shiva breaking Her fall. But Ganga or 'the energy which awakens intelligence in us' still has a problem, the problem is the moment we awaken to our inherent intelligence we become more selfish rather than less, we are filled with dreams of grandeur, as this wisdom is nothing but our awkening to our infinite potential and till this potential is completely understood we are dangerous and Ganga was afraid of this. But she was given a boon which would solve this problem - the boon being that Masters with Complete Understanding will bathe in Her thereby making our understanding complete and Ganga pure again, that is when we awken to ourselves, Men of Wisdom will seek us and direct us towards the complete understanding of our potential and we become 'Ganga'. What actions can we take to make Ganga clean - just try to understand ourselves and more we do more clean She becomes, and we can hasten the process by letting our incomplete understanding wash the feet of the Masters, so that we can come away with better understanding and little more closer to completely understanding Ganga. On the first take Ganga concern might look little selfish, but if we look deeper it was Her compassion that made Her get the boon, so that if we awaken through Her, She has made sure that there will be someone there to carry us all the way.. It was through hard work of our ancestors Ganga flows in us, but it was Ganga compassion that made sure that the beings she liberated would be there to help the the rest of us - Oh! thats our Mother! Jai Sri Ramakrishna! Please visit us online at http://www.ShreeMaa.org ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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