The Eternal Ideal of Perfection -Sadhu Maa

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OM NAMAH SIVAYA

 

Maa, what you have written here is all so nice. the first sentence

you say, "one's soul calls out and yearns for this expression" and

later you mention, "the individual expression of perfection." these

two phrases remind me of the video of Swamiji on the website. he

said something like he has a love affair with Sanskrit and that when

he first traveled do India Sanskrit made his soul soar. we all have

something we really love to do. some are blessed to be able to earn

a living at it. but even if that is not the case we need to be sure

we make time to do the things that makes our "soul soar."

 

it is really true what you say about us each being a cell in the

body of the whole. i guess that is where the individuality comes

in. funny word, indivi-duality. your words remind me of a quote i

read once. i am not sure who said it but i always remembered;

 

Be Yourself.

There is something that you can do better than any other. Listen to

the inner voice and bravely obey it.

 

JAI MAA

 

, "Sadhu Maa" <sadumaa wrote:

>

> Namaste Eric,

> But if one's soul calls out and yearns for this expression, to be

a

> jazz musician for instance, then that desire must be met or

released

> and from my experience we cannot forcefully cut out such desires.

> There is also the issue of parabda karma. If we get really really

> honest with ourselves, don't most of us know what we really want

to

> do or express? Or at least have hints of this? God needs people to

> grow food and to build roads and to make music and to paint. It

seems

> that each of us is given a set of samskaras and a set of gifts,

HOW

> we use those and how honest we live our own personal expression of

> Gods love is what I understand the goal being...figuring out our

own

> best expression and consciously moving toward that. For my own

self,

> I find fear and desires are the greatest barriers to fully

> acknowledging and manifesting what I think I meant to do this time

> around. Perhaps there are levels to all of this. I have heard the

> idea of doing the footwork (learning to be a jazz musician) but

> leaving the results up to God (success, money, etc.). That takes a

> lot of faith.

>

> 20+ years ago I really fell in love with the idea of God as a

cosmic

> body. It helps me to think, am I a heart cell or a liver cell or a

> muscle cell. It does not work to try to be something we are not.

We

> are not good at it. It ends up being like a cancer expression or

at

> least ineffective. But if we do and are honest in our expression,

as

> Emmett Fox said, get off our own water hose, then energy flows. I

> think this is something like the individual expression of

> perfection...consciously. This is something I am really taking a

hard

> look at right now. I have found not following those soul urgings

> exhausting. Jai Maa

>

> , "ecjensen_us" <ecjensen_us@>

> wrote:

> >

> > hi, steve. yes very well. and if i am not being well i just be

> > better. hope all is God with you and your family. i understand

> > what you are saying, but to me, what you are talking about is

> beyond

> > any goals. aren't goals for creation? isn't beyond creation

> really

> > beyond goals? i am talking about a less metaphysical type of

> goal.

> > for example, if One has the goal to become a jazz musican, don't

we

> > really manipulate creation to accomplish that goal? so what

> > determines if we are simply putting forth effort towards our goal

> (in

> > this example of being a jazz musician) or manipulating

creation?

> > isn't the effort really manipulating creation to achieve our

goal? -

> e

> >

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