THE IMPORTANCE OF FOUR things

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Thanks for the kind information

 

I have just enteredt the path of sri vidya upasana and it really

helps me getting valuable information from a holy person like

yourself

 

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vikram

 

 

Rajarajeshwari_Kalpataru , " para_anuloma "

<para_anuloma> wrote:

> Dear Mohanji,

>

> I would like to add my own listing here from my own personal

> experience...from a srividya perspective.

>

> 4 Things to remember:

> 1.Guru

> 2.Guru

> 3.Guru

> 4.Guru

>

> 4 deceptively looking weaklings:

>

> 1.Lust(People say an occasional mental fling at a woman is ok)

> 2.Fear(Fear is good as it keep's one on one's toes they say)

> 3.Anger(ANger is an outlet for ego)

> 4.Envy(People say envy is good as it makes you more competitive.)

>

> 4 Things to practice:

>

> 1.Humility(Always remember that howmuch ever high you grow there

> will be one person who is above you....similarly to complete the

> Taoistic flow...howmuch ever low you go there will be one person

who

> is below you!)

> 2.Thirst for knowledge(With knowledge and intelligence Chanukya

> destroyed empires!)

> 3. Seeking and giving blessings.(Bless a thing and it will bless

you

> curse a thing and it will curse. You can even bless a traffic jam

> and make it flow again.It has that much of power for even such

> trivial things!...Getting the blessings of pure souls is a

veritable

> manna from heaven)

> 4. Secretiveness in Srividya practices and all sadhanas.

>

> 4 Intoxicants:

> 1.Power which arises from doing the upasana

> 2.Attachment to form (srichakra rather than the gurutatwaa

inherent

> in it...No Guru...no bindu sthala....just remember this much

folks!)

> 3.Attachment to Mantras without 'spuritha' or 'Bhava'

> 4.Attachment to books and even words(Go beyond.....Goddess

> Rajarajeshwari lies in the beyondness of these things in my

opinion)

>

> 4 Fortunate things to have:

> 1.Guru(without guru the proper devotion toGod or Goddess cannot

come

> about.It simply cannot.Even if you show me a born saint I would

say

> he had a guru in his past birth.)

>

> 2.Guru(Guru is greater than the most learned man in the

> universe.Great scientists and literatuers used to be silent before

> the unlettered Shirdi Sai Baba, the 'aiyya' who this birth to me

> because I was his horse shyamakarna in my last birth)

>

> 3.Guru(Purity in charecter can be given in an instant by Guru.A

> theif was turned Valmeeki(Valmeekam means anthill incidentally) by

> the grace of Narada.

>

> 4.Guru again!(Magnanimity:This too comes to people only by the

grace

> of a Correcting Guru)

>

> 4 Rare qualities:

>

> 1.Humility in knowledge(The more and more we know manythings the

> more and more we know that we know nothing in realioty!)

> 2.Exalting the low(Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the

> earth!-a-la-JesusChrist of Nazereth)

> 3.Embracing the opposites(Life is dialectical. God can be cognised

> in the transcendence of the dualities.Tao helped me in this and is

> still helping everyday)

> 4.Being oneself(There is only person who is exactly like you in

the

> whole universe...and that is yourself! People try to imitate,put

> masks on them....if Iam angry I will let the other person know Iam

> angry,I wont put a false facade of sweet smiles.This is being my

> nature...the beingness of one's nature is the rarest quality I

would

> say from a srividya perspective as one should not be bamboozled by

> other great srividya upasakas. They too went through the process

of

> learning (from a guru if i may add))

>

> 4 things to disbelieve:

>

> 1. That ego can be completely vanquished and extinsguihsed by

> oneself.

>

> 2. That Goddess or any other deity appears even when the Guru is

not

> satisfied.

>

> 3. That one should not use one's commonsense when one is doing an

> act of faith

>

> 4. That Learning and qouting from shastras is a sign of erudition

> (This is a very common trap which many people fall into)

>

> 4 Things to avoid:

>

> 1.Diffidence(Diffidence has the word-sound 'dunce' in it!)

> 2.Fear(The only thing to fear is fear itself)

> 3.Impossibility (With 'Him' an impossibility becomes a Him-

> possibility)

> 4.'Vesha'(Shows of piety)(Her majesty will not be pleased with

such

> shows.She will just smile and say " He/She has a lot to develop

still')

>

> 4 Things to avoid:

>

> 1.An agnostic person(He has no opnion of God and simply ignores

> Him/Her. Atleast an atheist has virodhgi bhakthi in him.There are

> many agnostically inclined theists these days)

>

> 2.A Fool for passing the knowledge of srividya and information on

it.

>

> 3.Lust for bodily comforts(Not to be confused with utilities and

> necessities)

>

> 4.Analysis and intellectualisation(Srividya saraamsam lies in

> grasping the paraa then how can that be grasped with

> the 'adharaparaa'?...pray tell me dear brothers and sisters!

>

> 4 Uncontrollable things or events:

>

> 1. Moksha

>

> 2. Coming of guru

>

> 3. Darshan of Goddess or deity

>

> 4. Enlightenment.

>

> 4 Things truly recognised in four situations

>

> 1.Gnaana in enlightement

>

> 2.Dehaatheetham in moksha(the feeling of beyondness of the mortal

> coil while in moksha)

>

> 3.Turiyaatheetham in mantra sadhana(True mantra sadhana goes even

> beyond turiya into turiyaatheetham)

>

> 4.Saham in tears for Goddess(as opposed to soham)

>

> Benediction in 4 things

>

> 1. Doing the srividya puja secretively

>

> 2. Eating food alone to abosrb the energies of the food and to not

> talk while eating and wasting one's mantrically energised srividya

> deha

>

> 3. Guru seva

>

> 4. Ambadhyana

>

> Tooshneekadhyana Sthithe' Rajarajeshwari

> Tubhyam suta Subodham Namaskaram!

>

> Yours yogically,

>

> Shreeram Balijepalli

>

>

> Rajarajeshwari_Kalpataru , " Mohan Kumar HG "

> <mohan88hg@i...> wrote:

> > THE IMPORTANCE OF FOUR

> >

> >

> > REMEMBER FOUR THINGS:

> > a) To respect the elders

> > b) To protect and love the young

> > c)To take advice from the intelligent

> > d) To never quarrel with foolish persons.

> >

> >

> > FOUR THINGS SEEM WEAK INITIALLY, BUT IF NEGLECTED CAUSES SORROW:

> > a) Fire b) disease c) debt d) sin.

> >

> >

> > PRACTICE FOUR THINGS:

> > a) Being in company of learned and wise men

> > b) Contentment c) Charity d) Compassion.

> >

> >

> > FOUR THINGS INTOXICATES A MAN:

> > a) Youth b) Wealth c) Power d) Imprudence.

> >

> >

> > FORTUNATE TO HAVE FOUR THINGS:

> > a) Having devotion to God

> > b) Being in company of learned

> > c) Purity of charater

> > d) Magnanimity.

> >

> >

> > FOUR QUALITIES ARE RARE:

> > a) Wealth acquired by pure means

> > b) Modesty in charity

> > c) Kindness in Bravery

> > d) Humbleness in Authority.

> >

> >

> > DONT BELIEVE IN FOUR THINGS:

> > a) Unconquered Mind

> > b) Love of an enemy

> > c) Flattery of a selfish man

> > d) Road side Astrologer.

> >

> >

> > REMEMBER FOUR THINGS:

> > a) Favour done by others to you

> > b) Ill-treating others c) Death d) God.

> >

> >

> > AVOID FOUR THINGS :

> > a) An Atheist

> > b) Wealth accumulated through wrong means

> > c) Women other than your own wife

> > d) Criticizing others.

> >

> >

> > NO CONTROL OVER FOUR THINGS:

> > a) LIFE b) DEATH c) FAME d) UNPOPULARITY.

> >

> >

> > FOUR THINGS ARE TRULY RECOGNIZED IN FOUR SITUATIONS:

> > a) Friend in Poverty

> > b) Wife in Penury and Indigence

> > c) Bravery in a battlefield

> > d) Relatives in Notoriety.

> >

> >

> > BENEDICTION IN FOUR THINGS:

> > a) Control over speech

> > b) Little sleep c) Little food d) Remembering God in solitude.