To All about Blossoming Seeds~ by Muktimaa

[Guest guest]

Jai Maa, beloved Linda, Chris, Babu and all!

 

i haven't been on line for the last couple of days, as i have been in

bed a bit "under the weather". i am so happy to see that

the "Blossoming Seeds" have bloomed into such fragrantly devotional

Wisdom Flowers ! :<) And since it is nearing Harvest Time--the Fruits

will be as sweet as nectar, i am sure!

At Her Lotus Feet,

Muktimaa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

, nierika wrote:

>

>

> Babu Krishnan wrote:

>

> The kind postings from Linda and Chris makes me feel so energized

and

> charged about the need to restring and retune the inner guitars,

so as to offer a

> sense of deeper solace to the many worldwide devotees and

aspirants...

> Some years back when asked by one of the visitors to the Martinez

temple,

> whether someone who is so full of desires and fears, would be

eligible for the

> "TRUTH", Shree Maa in her usual and sweet way said:

> "Truth is not a reward for any good behavior nor is it a prize for

merely

> passing few tests. This cannot be bought or sold or transferred.

It is the

> primordial and" pratama 'adhyaya"( starting place ), yet unborn or

unseen but

> ancient in in its source. You simply cannot be meriting the truth.

It is already

> your own, and always same and you cannot escape. Just stop running

away by

> running after. Stop and stand still, try and BE. Try to be quiet.

>

>

> Dear Babu Krishnan ~ "restring and retun the inner guitars" ~ this

metaphor

> really speaks to me since I play guitar and need to get new strings

(else my

> high E string will soon break). Anyone who has ever had and tried

to play a

> guitar knows how trying this can be. Yet somehow, from the inside,

in my case,

> the intent was so strong, I did all the necessary things, which,

when you

> have a steel stringed guitar can be trying. First I had to place

each (left

> hand) finger in the proper place on the guitar to make a certain

chord. Then I

> had to go and simultaneously push up from underneath my finger (so

they would

> be dampening the strings) to make a kind of arch while pressing

down very hard

> with the pads of my fingers.

> After a bit of this, you get bloody fingers, you get sore fingers,

yet, you

> are driven so you keep on until there is that magic moment when it

all comes

> together and suddenly it seems effortless.

>

> Next to this difficulty, it occurs to me that sadhana seems easy,

though

> many of the elements may be the same. In my case, with my sick

body, to be able

> to get to a point where I can just sit up while reciting. Some of

you know

> that about a year ago I wrote to Swamiji of my difficulties and

asked if it was

> okay for me to recite while reclining in bed. He wrote back that

yes, it is

> okay. But now I have gotten to the point where I am able to sit up

in bed

> while reading. Just like playing the guitar; I never formulated

this consciously

> as a goal.

> It was something I was doing from the inside out. But who

formulated the

> goal? Linda never said, well, let's see, now I will work on sitting

up in bed

> while reciting. It seemed to happen by itself.

>

> I am not saying that a person should not formulate goals. In doing

the Earth

> Mother Sankalpa, which I assume is continuing, at some point I

realized that

> I might never achieve reciting the number of malas given in the

instructions

> for each planet. So I formulated a goal of reaching at least 1/3

the number

> of each planet's malas. I have wended my way, being a little

turtle, and now

> I find I am very close. To those who completed the sankalpa in the

first

> month or completed it and are now on round 2, this may seem very

small. But to me

> it was a big surprise to find, when I did my last count, I was so

close. I

> applaud all those whose capacity is greater and who are able to do

much

> sadhana. And I have had to learn humility in knowing I rarely can

keep up, and I

> have had to learn (better and more completely) focus so that I

could keep going,

> when, initially I felt so discouraged.

>

> So there are two examples. One in which a "goal" springs

spontaneously from

> within and is accomplished, and one where the goal is formulated by

the heart

> or mind and stated externally, and is accomplished (in my case,

according to

> my capacity ... my capacity was much greater when I was in my

teens getting

> bloody fingers). Both of these seem equally valid to me.

>

> And I very much appreciate, Babu, what you recounted above of Shree

Maa's

> words. Whenever someone shares a personal experience of what they

have heard or

> seen from Maa or Swamiji, it is like Christmas morning, or Happy

Birthday,

> for me, a wonderful present. I loved what Maa said about Truth not

being a

> reward, but being already here, within us, as is the spark of our

own divinity.

> And the more we rush about and "do" and "try," the harder these

are to catch.

> Why? Because we are kittens chasing our own tails? But Mother sees

all,

> smiles, perhaps laughs at our youthful running around in circles.

But then, like

> any good Mother, She will eventually say, "Stop." I think, it

can't be that

> simple, can it? But from my own experience I know it is. Of

course, I also

> think our striving and chasing and searching is part of the

process that many

> must play out before they are ready to Stop. Thank you, Babu.

> Jai Maa ~ Linda

>