To shreemadevotee about Daily Reflection September 13 - Discrimination

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shreemaadevotee wrote:

 

One of Swamiji's main teachings is that Mother Nature is constantly

changing,

as is her nature. Change She will and change She must. When we identify

with the changes we suffer. When we desperately try to hold on and keep the

changes from happening we feel pain. Only when we learn to watch those

changes

with equilibrium, with the feeling in our hearts and minds that this is the

nature of existence, only then do we begin to free ourselves from actions

and

reactions, which merely prolong the pain of attachment and sow more seeds of

the

same.

 

 

Dear devotee ~ thank you for this much needed reminder. My relationship with

my hubby is in the ditch, and I keep trying to make it work. But it takes

two, I think, to get a cart out of the ditch, so I have a lot of pain feeling

like I am the only one who cares. But the truth is, I am ... and the change has

already occurred. There is no way to stop a leaf that has already fallen

from the tree. You can be sad it is falling it off, or you can watch it twirl

and dance and know it's part of the rhythm of life. It's a bit harder with

people than with leaves, but I have no desire to prolong the pain of attachment.

Jai Swamiji ~ Linda